Quality Assurance built an offboarding tool that forgets the offboarding

“It's just a webhook.”— Lukas, Quality Assurance

Reason:

Honestly? Because the last 10% is authentication, billing and everything else. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 88 days ago.

Built by:

Lukas, an analyst

Build time:

6 evenings

Built with:

Next.js, because the tutorial used it

Database:

a backup drive that has not been plugged in for 18 months

Authentication:

the login page is protected by another login page

Deployment:

behind a domain Chen owns privately

Responsible:

Nadia, who is currently interviewing elsewhere

Documentation:

a Word document with tracked changes still enabled

Security situation:

the privacy policy refers to a different application

Future disaster:

It will send an invoice of €240,000 to the wrong country.

Age: 56 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €29k per year, alive 8x longer than intended, 12% chance of becoming business critical.