Marketing built a quote builder with a discount field and no limit

“It's read-only except for updates.”— Marketing Manager

Reason:

Because the licence costs €83,000 per year, per seat. With 3 tests, all skipped.

Built by:

Priya, someone from Procurement

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Next.js, because the tutorial used it

Database:

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

Authentication:

the password manager is a Word document

Deployment:

hosted on Jens's personal Vercel account

Responsible:

an intern whose contract ended in October

Documentation:

a Confluence page linking to another Confluence page

Security situation:

it has an admin panel, unlinked, unprotected

Future disaster:

It will be migrated into the official system in 2032.

Age: 17 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 17 days ago · original builder left 31 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 4 accidental connections, 5 departments depend on it, €37k per year.