An intern built a knowledge base with a search that does not search

“Google probably handles that.”— Chen, An intern

Reason:

Mainly because the CEO asked for it in a corridor on a Sunday. With dark mode and no error handling.

Built by:

Chen, a controller

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Power Apps, licensed to one employee

Database:

an array.

Authentication:

the username and password are printed on the login page

Deployment:

deployed 50 minutes before the builder went on holiday

Responsible:

Operations, but they strongly disagree

Documentation:

comments in the code explaining what the code used to do

Security situation:

TLS is disabled because it is "inside the network"

Future disaster:

It will get backups after the first data loss.

Age: 325 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €277k per year, alive 4x longer than intended, 1 users.