The Management Assistant built a demo environment that became production

“It's basically Airtable.”— Miriam, The Management Assistant

Reason:

Because the documentation was last updated 3 months ago. Built during an offsite instead of the thing they were asked to build.

Built by:

Miriam, a product owner

Build time:

12 minutes

Built with:

plain HTML and 1,900 lines of jQuery

Database:

Firestore because the prototype needed to ship by Friday

Authentication:

the JWT secret is "changeme"

Deployment:

hosted on the demo environment, permanently

Responsible:

an agency acquired by another agency

Documentation:

Daniel's memory

Security situation:

authorization happens entirely in the frontend

Future disaster:

It will fail during the year-end close.

Age: 14 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 14 days ago · original builder left 58 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €709k per year, nobody owns it, the builder has left.