Sales built a warehouse stock counter

“We'll add monitoring later.”— Head of Operations

Reason:

Allegedly because Budget2026.xlsx finally crashed at 16:25. Renamed three times to avoid attention.

Built by:

Lukas, a key account manager

Build time:

8 minutes

Built with:

Excel macros, exposed over HTTP

Database:

Cosmos DB because somebody had Azure credits

Authentication:

the password is stored in a Teams channel called "Passwords"

Deployment:

hosted on Lukas's personal Vercel account

Responsible:

the business

Documentation:

a README describing a version that no longer exists

Security situation:

production secrets are in .env.example

Future disaster:

It will be discovered during due diligence.

Age: 309 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 309 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 1 accidental connections, 1 departments depend on it, 10% chance of becoming business critical.