Facilities built an app only Kevin knows exists

“It's only customer names.”— Managing Director

Reason:

Honestly? Because the export takes 8 minutes and sometimes produces an empty file. Built during an offsite instead of the thing they were asked to build.

Built by:

Lukas, a key account manager

Build time:

5 hours 41 minutes

Built with:

Power Apps, licensed to one employee

Database:

a Postgres replica that accidentally became primary

Authentication:

the reset password button emails the old password back

Deployment:

sharing a reverse proxy with the company Christmas raffle

Responsible:

Marketing Manager, who delegated it to somebody who left

Documentation:

a Loom video recorded at 1.5x speed

Security situation:

the admin page is protected by not linking to it

Future disaster:

It will acquire its own workaround.

Age: 80 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 80 days ago · original builder left 73 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 68% chance of becoming business critical, the builder has left, 1 accidental connections.