CEO's Daughter built a meme outbid.lol clone

“The password is really long.”— Group Controller

Reason:

Honestly? Because the approval requires 7 people for a €38,000 purchase. Renamed twice to avoid attention.

Built by:

Jens, someone from Procurement

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

plain HTML and 1,900 lines of jQuery

Database:

a network drive mapped as Z: on three people's computers

Authentication:

the production server is reachable from the guest Wi-Fi

Deployment:

running from an image tagged latest

Responsible:

whoever still has the admin password

Documentation:

none, but the variable names are "pretty clear"

Security situation:

authorization happens entirely in the frontend

Future disaster:

It will outlive the vendor that was supposed to replace it.

Age: 62 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 62 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 34% chance of becoming business critical, alive 9x longer than intended, 1 users.