Procurement built a parking space allocation app

“It's read-only. Mostly.”— Plant Manager

Reason:

Because nobody could find the right SharePoint folder in 12 minutes of looking. Forked from a tutorial at 16:04 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Olivier, a working student

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

plain HTML and 1,900 lines of jQuery

Database:

Airtable on Chen's personal plan

Authentication:

an API key in the frontend bundle

Deployment:

SSL certificate expires in 4 days

Responsible:

an intern whose contract ended in February

Documentation:

one README with 10 TODOs

Security situation:

a security review was scheduled for August and quietly cancelled

Future disaster:

It will outlive two reorganisations.

Age: 5.2 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 4 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 438 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 218 users, 5 departments depend on it, alive 91x longer than intended.