R&D built a visitor sign-in kiosk

“Git is basically a backup.”— Group Controller

Reason:

Honestly? Because the optional field breaks everything if left empty. Renamed twice to avoid attention.

Built by:

Marco, a key account manager

Build time:

12 minutes

Built with:

an Electron app, for a form

Database:

an API that returns CSV

Authentication:

Bastian is still an admin because removing access felt risky

Deployment:

restarted manually every Friday

Responsible:

Katrin, because everyone else refused

Documentation:

a file called README-NEW-FINAL.md

Security situation:

it emails a CSV of everything at 16:17, nightly

Future disaster:

It will become part of the company's "digital core" slide deck.

Age: 47 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 47 days ago · original builder left 48 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 146 users, 2 accidental connections, 2 departments depend on it.