The Management Assistant built a timesheet app because the other timesheet app sucks

“We barely store passwords.”— Plant Manager

Reason:

Honestly? Because someone said "just add AI". Built during an offsite instead of the thing they were asked to build.

Built by:

Chen, a product owner

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

an Electron app, for a form

Database:

a Postgres replica that accidentally became primary

Authentication:

MFA exists, but everyone clicked "remember this device forever"

Deployment:

running in Docker Compose on a machine named main

Responsible:

HR Generalist, because their name appeared first in the meeting notes

Documentation:

a Miro board with 169 sticky notes

Security situation:

the admin URL contains the word secret

Future disaster:

It will be presented at a conference as a success story.

Age: 2.6 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 6 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 420 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €355k per year, 111 users, 2 departments depend on it.