Legal built a status page for internal systems

“It has a login screen.”— Group Controller

Reason:

Mainly because Priya left 4 months ago. Presented in a town hall as "innovation".

Built by:

Chen, an intern

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Vue, for personal reasons

Database:

a CSV called Budget2026_v2.xlsx in a shared drive

Authentication:

the security model is "it is behind Cloudflare"

Deployment:

running on Windows Server because that machine was available

Responsible:

a contractor invoicing €771/day through a third party

Documentation:

a Slack message saying "I'll document this later"

Security situation:

the JWT secret is "changeme"

Future disaster:

It will be migrated into SAP and then quietly migrated back.

Age: 98 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 98 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 5 departments depend on it, alive 14x longer than intended, 19 users.