CEO's Daughter built a barcode scanner that only works on one phone

“We'll tell IT once it works.”— Daniel, CEO's Daughter

Reason:

Because the integration works unless it is Monday. With a logo generated at 14:32.

Built by:

Daniel, an intern

Build time:

3 hours 23 minutes

Built with:

a Rails app from 2016 nobody updated

Database:

DynamoDB with one item containing everything

Authentication:

the API key is shared with three vendors and one intern

Deployment:

hosted on a server shared with 5 unrelated applications

Responsible:

an external agency with no contract on file

Documentation:

one README with 9 TODOs

Security situation:

the penetration test account had global admin

Future disaster:

It will delete records older than 205 days, including the important ones.

Age: 5.4 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 6 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 1326 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 567 users, 3 accidental connections, alive 33x longer than intended.