An intern built a shift planner that emails PDFs

“It's behind the VPN.”— Marketing Manager

Reason:

Honestly? Because the optional field breaks everything if left empty. With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.

Built by:

Ravi, a working student

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

an Electron app, for a form

Database:

a nightly CSV export emailed to Anja

Authentication:

the temporary firewall rule has existed for 16 months

Deployment:

deployed every time Sofia remembers

Responsible:

whoever happens to be on call

Documentation:

a Loom video whose owner account has been deleted

Security situation:

the vulnerability scanner is blocked by the firewall

Future disaster:

It will get backups after the first data loss.

Age: 2.5 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 5 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 420 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €215k per year, alive 66x longer than intended, 1 users.