Legal built a visitor sign-in kiosk

“It's not indexed.”— Kevin, Legal

Reason:

Allegedly because management has a PowerPoint with a third number. Quietly rolled out to three countries.

Built by:

Kevin, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

React, Vite and enthusiasm

Database:

a CSV called Leads_final_FINAL.xlsm in a shared drive

Authentication:

the admin route is called /admin-new-final

Deployment:

hosted on a cloud account costing €10.81/month

Responsible:

Kevin, who left 15 months ago

Documentation:

comments that say "do not change this"

Security situation:

the data protection officer does not know it exists

Future disaster:

It will be migrated into SAP and then quietly migrated back.

Age: 3.2 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 6 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 927 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 55x longer than intended, the builder has left, €10k per year.