Sales built a price list with its own opinions

“The code is self-documenting.”— Bastian, Sales

Reason:

Honestly? Because someone said "just add AI". With a logo generated at 23:22.

Built by:

Bastian, someone from Procurement

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Power Apps, licensed to one employee

Database:

Firestore because the prototype needed to ship by Friday

Authentication:

authorization is handled in the UI

Deployment:

running with 99% disk usage

Responsible:

Thomas, because their credit card pays for it

Documentation:

a diagram on a whiteboard, photographed, then deleted

Security situation:

logout only hides the menu

Future disaster:

It will overwrite the official data with yesterday's export.

Age: 8.6 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 105x longer than intended, older than the department using it, €14k per year.