CEO's Daughter built a wrapper around another internal tool

“It's just a cron job.”— Katrin, CEO's Daughter

Reason:

Officially because the bug was closed because nobody replied for 317 days. Quietly rolled out to five countries.

Built by:

Katrin, a product owner

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Lovable, plus one emergency GitHub edit

Database:

a table called temp that has existed for 2 years

Authentication:

the VPN password is the Wi-Fi password

Deployment:

deployed through a GitHub Action that only Tobias understands

Responsible:

Marco, who inherited it from Katrin by accident

Documentation:

a spreadsheet cell containing "ask Priya"

Security situation:

production secrets are in .env.example

Future disaster:

It will cause Security to ask "what application?".

Age: 4.7 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 4 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 32 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €420k per year, alive 121x longer than intended, the builder has left.