Production built an accrual calculator

“There are only like twelve users.”— Group Controller

Reason:

Because the admin account belongs to somebody who left 9 months ago. Forked from a tutorial at 09:47 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Chen, a controller

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Lovable, and a pinch of stupidity

Database:

a global JavaScript variable

Authentication:

nobody knows the password, but the browser still does

Deployment:

hosted on Katrin's personal Vercel account

Responsible:

Chen, who thought somebody else owned it

Documentation:

one README with 3 TODOs

Security situation:

the admin URL contains the word secret

Future disaster:

It will cause IT to ask "what server?".

Age: 4.1 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 1299 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 409 users, 3 accidental connections, alive 107x longer than intended.