Customer Support built a meme outbid.lol clone

“It's only metadata.”— HR Generalist

Reason:

Officially because someone said "GDPR" and the meeting went quiet. Forked from a tutorial at 14:23 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Tobias, a controller

Build time:

12 minutes

Built with:

Power Apps, licensed to one employee

Database:

138,897 XML files generated by SAP

Authentication:

the role is stored in localStorage

Deployment:

behind a domain that still contains the word test

Responsible:

Tobias, who only knows the database

Documentation:

a diagram on a whiteboard, photographed, then deleted

Security situation:

production secrets are in a Jira ticket

Future disaster:

It will turn out to contain the only correct pricing data.

Age: 12 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 12 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 33% chance of becoming business critical, 1 users, €877 per year.