CEO's Daughter built an internal marketplace for leftover office furniture

“Nobody would want this data.”— Sarah, CEO's Daughter

Reason:

Mainly because the HR system needs 9 clicks and two approvals to export one report. With 3 tests, all skipped.

Built by:

Sarah, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

4 hours 36 minutes

Built with:

three AI coding tools arguing through the same repository

Database:

an Access database called Suppliers_new.xlsm with 10 linked tables

Authentication:

Basic Auth over plain HTTP

Deployment:

deployed to staging, which customers are now using

Responsible:

Daniel, who inherited it during a reorganisation

Documentation:

comments beginning with TODO 2025

Security situation:

no security review, no plans for one

Future disaster:

It will trigger a call from the works council.

Age: 142 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 105 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 125 users, the builder has left, 1 accidental connections.