An intern built a third CRM

“The service account needs those permissions.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Honestly? Because someone called it "basically just CRUD". Forked from a tutorial at 16:46 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Elena, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

React, Vite and enthusiasm

Database:

Anja's laptop, technically

Authentication:

the second factor is knowing which door the server room is behind

Deployment:

on the marketing website's server, somehow

Responsible:

an intern's old manager's manager

Documentation:

a README last updated 11 days ago

Security situation:

security is handled by keeping the URL secret

Future disaster:

It will still be running in 2033.

Age: 7.2 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 3 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 210 days ago · original builder left 629 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 775 users, 43% chance of becoming business critical, alive 44x longer than intended.