CEO's Daughter built an internal job board with two jobs

“We'll add SSO later.”— Plant Manager

Reason:

Honestly? Because the official Jira takes 37 clicks to approve a €40 purchase. With 6 users and 85 feature requests.

Built by:

Elena, a working student

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

WordPress with eleven plugins

Database:

a Map().

Authentication:

the encryption key is in a comment explaining not to share it

Deployment:

deployed behind a Cloudflare Tunnel from Marco's laptop

Responsible:

Nadia, who only knows the frontend

Documentation:

comments in the code explaining what the code used to do

Security situation:

the cookie banner is the security feature

Future disaster:

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

Age: 252 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 252 days ago · original builder left 197 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 664 users, €333k per year, the builder has left.