The Management Assistant built an on-call rota in a shared doc with a UI

“It's just CRUD.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Officially because the vendor quoted €49 and a discovery phase. Renamed three times to avoid attention.

Built by:

Tobias, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

3 hours 57 minutes

Built with:

React, Vite and enthusiasm

Database:

a Postgres database called app_db

Authentication:

a login screen that accepts any password

Deployment:

deployed Friday at 11:37

Responsible:

nobody. It has no owner.

Documentation:

a Confluence page marked "draft", last edited 88 days ago

Security situation:

the penetration test found it by accident

Future disaster:

It will silently stop syncing and nobody will notice for 8 months.

Age: 226 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 226 days ago · original builder left 93 days ago

Rated common mostly because: nobody owns it, 2 departments depend on it, the builder has left.