An intern built a warehouse label printer web app

“We can rebuild it properly later.”— IT Service Desk

Reason:

Allegedly because the vendor quoted 14 months and a discovery phase. With a logo generated at 08:57.

Built by:

Anja, a product owner

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

a Slack bot doing database writes

Database:

the production database, directly, with write access

Authentication:

email magic links to Miriam's personal Gmail

Deployment:

last deployed 34 days ago

Responsible:

nobody. It has no owner.

Documentation:

a Slack thread from February

Security situation:

no security review, no plans for one

Future disaster:

It will be migrated into the official system in 2030.

Age: 17 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 17 days ago · original builder left 48 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: €134k per year, direct production access, nobody owns it.