Facilities built a headcount planning app

“We're too small to get hacked.”— Marketing Manager

Reason:

Mainly because the lunch prototype is now business critical. Forked from a tutorial at 16:27 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Priya, a working student

Build time:

27 minutes

Built with:

an AI agent with shell access

Database:

a Google Sheet with an Apps Script nobody remembers writing

Authentication:

the tenant ID is a query parameter

Deployment:

on a Raspberry Pi in the server room

Responsible:

a shared mailbox nobody reads

Documentation:

three different architecture diagrams

Security situation:

the vulnerability scanner is blocked by the firewall

Future disaster:

It will get SSO after somebody shares the password publicly.

Age: 2.2 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 467 days ago

Rated common mostly because: nobody owns it, the builder has left, alive 13x longer than intended.