Sales built a churn predictor trained on 40 rows

“You need to know the exact link.”— Ravi, Sales

Reason:

Allegedly because the export takes 27 minutes and sometimes produces an empty file. Started as Leads_old_new2.xlsx with a script attached.

Built by:

Ravi, a field technician

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

a no-code builder on a personal account

Database:

Redis with persistence disabled because "it is only a cache"

Authentication:

the session never expires because that was annoying

Deployment:

deployed at 16:59 because "nobody will be using it then"

Responsible:

Chen, who inherited it from Ravi by accident

Documentation:

a Loom video nobody can find

Security situation:

the webhook secret is "secret"

Future disaster:

It will be presented to management as evidence that shadow IT works.

Age: 3.2 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 210 days ago · original builder left 939 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 65 users, 2 accidental connections, the builder has left.