The Canteen built a travel request form

“The password is really long.”— Ravi, The Canteen

Reason:

Officially because the procurement tool needs 6 clicks and two approvals to correct a typo in an address. Copied to production via floppy disks.

Built by:

Ravi, a working student

Build time:

5 hours 33 minutes

Built with:

Next.js, because the tutorial used it

Database:

a SQL Server instance called temp-final that nobody is allowed to restart

Authentication:

the role is stored in localStorage

Deployment:

last deployed 823 days ago

Responsible:

Ravi, who thought somebody else owned it

Documentation:

Elena's memory

Security situation:

it was reviewed once, by Ravi, who built it

Future disaster:

It will export test data into production.

Age: 314 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 210 days ago · original builder left 209 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 878 users, alive 45x longer than intended, the builder has left.