R&D built a lunch order aggregator

“It has HTTPS.”— Lukas, R&D

Reason:

Mainly because the last person who understood it left 3 months ago. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 209 days ago.

Built by:

Lukas, a working student

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

a Slack bot doing database writes

Database:

the old database because migration is scheduled for Q3

Authentication:

the security model is "nobody knows this URL"

Deployment:

SSL certificate expires in 11 days

Responsible:

Elena and Sarah, who each think the other owns it

Documentation:

an email with the subject "quick overview"

Security situation:

the session never expires

Future disaster:

It will overwrite the official data with yesterday's export.

Age: 4.4 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 5 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 420 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 116x longer than intended, €81k per year, 1 departments depend on it.