Legal built a timesheet app because the other timesheet app sucks

“It's basically a spreadsheet with buttons.”— IT Service Desk

Reason:

Because the integration works unless it is Sunday. Quietly rolled out to two countries.

Built by:

Daniel, a recruiter

Build time:

51 minutes

Built with:

an Electron app, for a form

Database:

an audit table that nobody has ever queried

Authentication:

the password policy requires one uppercase letter and optimism

Deployment:

running on port 5000 in production

Responsible:

an agency acquired by another agency

Documentation:

a Loom video whose owner account has been deleted

Security situation:

backups use the same password as production

Future disaster:

It will discover the backups have never been restored.

Age: 255 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 36 days ago

Rated common mostly because: nobody owns it, the builder has left, 16% chance of becoming business critical.