CEO Office built a customer health score with a formula in a comment

“It's not really an application.”— Managing Director

Reason:

Allegedly because the documentation starts with "TODO". Forked from a tutorial at 11:31 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Sofia, a controller

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

a no-code builder on a personal account

Database:

a Google Sheet with 151,899 rows and 73 tabs

Authentication:

the JWT secret is "changeme"

Deployment:

kept alive by a scheduled task every 3 minutes

Responsible:

Katrin, according to Jira

Documentation:

three different architecture diagrams

Security situation:

it was reviewed once, by Sofia, who built it

Future disaster:

It will get a Jira project before it gets documentation.

Age: 2.5 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: €1.3m per year, 5 departments depend on it, 124 users.