Logistics built a parking space allocation app

“The firewall should block it.”— Plant Manager

Reason:

Honestly? Because the admin account belongs to somebody who left 6 months ago. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 411 days ago.

Built by:

Daniel, someone from Procurement

Build time:

4 hours 32 minutes

Built with:

an Electron app, for a form

Database:

Firestore because the prototype needed to ship by Friday

Authentication:

MFA is enabled for 3 people

Deployment:

hosted on Nadia's personal Vercel account

Responsible:

Chen, who only knows the frontend

Documentation:

a Loom video nobody can find

Security situation:

the vulnerability scanner is blocked by the firewall

Future disaster:

It will stop working after someone renames a column.

Age: 3.5 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 3 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 823 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 759 users, 3 departments depend on it, alive 61x longer than intended.