Facilities built a lead scoring system

“The quarter ends Friday.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Officially because the roadmap says Q4, but nobody wrote down the year. With dark mode and no error handling.

Built by:

Jens, a recruiter

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Vue, for personal reasons

Database:

a global JavaScript variable

Authentication:

the admin page is hidden by removing the link

Deployment:

running with 93% disk usage

Responsible:

Marketing Manager, who has never opened it

Documentation:

a Notion page titled "New docs"

Security situation:

security is handled by being behind the office Wi-Fi

Future disaster:

It will duplicate every record after a timezone change.

Age: 3.4 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 6 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 823 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 4 accidental connections, alive 59x longer than intended, 12% chance of becoming business critical.