Three People From Finance built a maintenance request portal

“We just need it until SAP is updated.”— Managing Director

Reason:

Mainly because the mandatory field is documented as optional. Built during an offsite instead of the thing they were asked to build.

Built by:

Katrin, a working student

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Vue, for personal reasons

Database:

Jira custom fields, somehow

Authentication:

one shared password, written on a sticky note in the warehouse office

Deployment:

behind a domain that still contains the word test

Responsible:

Kevin, who thought somebody else owned it

Documentation:

a Loom video whose owner account has been deleted

Security situation:

the refresh token never expires

Future disaster:

It will be replaced by a second version of itself.

Age: 206 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 206 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 394 users, €291k per year, alive 7x longer than intended.