Quality Assurance built a video game

“We'll document it after the quarter.”— IT Service Desk

Reason:

Because Daniel left 3 months ago. Forked from a tutorial at 16:56 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Daniel, a team lead

Build time:

12 minutes

Built with:

Next.js, because the tutorial used it

Database:

a database running in a container called final-final-db

Authentication:

the admin password is Lukas123

Deployment:

hosted on a server shared with 4 unrelated applications

Responsible:

Daniel, who thought somebody else owned it

Documentation:

a Confluence page marked "draft", last edited 317 days ago

Security situation:

it is indexed by Google. All of it.

Future disaster:

It will be discovered during due diligence.

Age: 7.9 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 74 days ago · original builder left 2221 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: €1.1m per year, 113 users, alive 48x longer than intended.