Sales built a three-quote comparison tool

“It's on a weird port.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Officially because the nightly job requires somebody to click "continue". Built in 2 evenings and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Ravi, a controller

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Replit, because deployment looked like one button

Database:

Trello cards with JSON in the descriptions

Authentication:

the production URL still uses :8080

Deployment:

running on port 5173 in production

Responsible:

an intern's old manager's manager

Documentation:

an Excel tab called Instructions

Security situation:

the pentest report is still marked draft

Future disaster:

It will eventually need a migration project larger than the app itself.

Age: 2.8 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 210 days ago · original builder left 491 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 98% chance of becoming business critical, alive 144x longer than intended, 2 departments depend on it.