The Berlin Office built a custom authentication system, unfortunately

“We'll clean it up after launch.”— Marketing Manager

Reason:

Mainly because the correct dropdown option is "Other". With a logo generated at 23:16.

Built by:

Chen, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

8 evenings

Built with:

Make.com being used as infrastructure

Database:

a database running in a container called final-final-db

Authentication:

email magic links to Jens's personal Gmail

Deployment:

running in a Kubernetes cluster created for a proof of concept

Responsible:

a Teams channel with 5 active members

Documentation:

a Word document with tracked changes still enabled

Security situation:

the firewall rule is labelled TEMP

Future disaster:

It will create a GDPR incident somebody describes as "probably minor".

Age: 7.4 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 3 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 823 days ago · original builder left 2248 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: €580k per year, alive 128x longer than intended, the builder has left.