Customer Support built a quote builder with a discount field and no limit

“We only need it for this quarter.”— Marco, Customer Support

Reason:

Mainly because Lukas left 14 months ago. Renamed three times to avoid attention.

Built by:

Marco, a working student

Build time:

19 minutes

Built with:

Next.js, because the tutorial used it

Database:

a production snapshot from February because restore testing felt risky

Authentication:

the VPN password is the Wi-Fi password

Deployment:

hosted on Elena's personal Vercel account

Responsible:

Lukas, according to nobody except Thomas

Documentation:

comments that say "do not change this"

Security situation:

the API key has never been rotated

Future disaster:

It will get a staging environment after production breaks.

Age: 2.6 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 5 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 317 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 62 users, nobody owns it, the builder has left.