Fleet Management built a defect reporting app

“The firewall should block it.”— IT Service Desk

Reason:

Honestly? Because the lunch prototype is now business critical. Built in 5 evenings and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Olivier, a recruiter

Build time:

5 hours 13 minutes

Built with:

Next.js, because the tutorial used it

Database:

an Oracle database that costs more than the application

Authentication:

Thomas is still an admin because removing access felt risky

Deployment:

deployed manually because CI/CD "was taking too long"

Responsible:

Marco, currently on parental leave

Documentation:

a file called README-NEW-FINAL.md

Security situation:

the admin URL contains the word secret

Future disaster:

It will receive an innovation award.

Age: 35 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 35 days ago · original builder left 51 days ago

Rated common mostly because: the builder has left, 1 users, alive 2x longer than intended.