Manufacturing built yet another project tracker

“We'll add tests later.”— Anja, Manufacturing

Reason:

Honestly? Because nobody had tested it on an iPad. With a settings page that does nothing.

Built by:

Anja, a working student

Build time:

2 evenings

Built with:

three AI coding tools arguing through the same repository

Database:

a backup drive that has not been plugged in for 18 months

Authentication:

the audit log is console.log

Deployment:

behind a domain Miriam owns privately

Responsible:

Katrin, who thought somebody else owned it

Documentation:

an email with the subject "quick overview"

Security situation:

the API key has never been rotated

Future disaster:

It will discover the backups have never been restored.

Age: 156 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 2 departments depend on it, alive 7x longer than intended, 1 users.