The Management Assistant built an internal wiki with 11 pages

“It's only 800 lines.”— Group Controller

Reason:

Honestly? Because nobody had tested it on an iPad. With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.

Built by:

Kevin, a recruiter

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Vue, for personal reasons

Database:

Git commits, technically append-only

Authentication:

the login page is protected by another login page

Deployment:

restarted manually every Friday

Responsible:

"the team", which is Kevin

Documentation:

a photographed whiteboard from a workshop

Security situation:

the API key has never been rotated

Future disaster:

It will discover the backups have never been restored.

Age: 5.6 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 5 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 563 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 97x longer than intended, the builder has left, older than the department using it.