Finance built a contract deadline reminder bot

“It's only for one department.”— Anja, Finance

Reason:

Officially because the admin account belongs to somebody who left 12 months ago. Already exported 4,377 rows to somebody's laptop.

Built by:

Anja, the management assistant

Build time:

6 evenings

Built with:

an Electron app, for a form

Database:

an Outlook shared mailbox with 62,556 unread records

Authentication:

the write-only account can also read

Deployment:

hosted on a cloud account costing €72.29/month

Responsible:

nobody officially, Sofia emotionally

Documentation:

comments in the code explaining what the code used to do

Security situation:

the pentest report is still marked draft

Future disaster:

It will fail during the year-end close.

Age: 15 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 52 days ago

Rated common mostly because: nobody owns it, the builder has left, €2k per year.