The Front Desk built a supplier invoice dispute tracker

“It has a login screen.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Because the fax machine is still somehow involved. Forked from a tutorial at 08:08 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Petra, a product owner

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

a Slack bot doing database writes

Database:

a NAS called production-new purchased from Amazon

Authentication:

a URL 72 characters long, which counts as security

Deployment:

deployed behind a Cloudflare Tunnel from Daniel's laptop

Responsible:

Petra, whose laptop contains the only working environment

Documentation:

a Teams recording nobody has permission to open

Security situation:

the service account is also a real employee

Future disaster:

It will get an SLA before it gets a test suite.

Age: 134 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 134 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 477 users, 72% chance of becoming business critical, 4 accidental connections.