The CEO built a compliance checklist with checkboxes and no checks

“We'll clean it up after launch.”— Managing Director

Reason:

Allegedly because the workshop produced a Miro board with 51 sticky notes. Already exported 74,936 rows to somebody's laptop.

Built by:

Ravi, an analyst

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Lovable, and a pinch of optimism

Database:

a Postgres database called app_db containing 9 years of production data

Authentication:

the API key has existed since the prototype

Deployment:

on a Raspberry Pi in the server room

Responsible:

a vendor whose support contract expired 9 months ago

Documentation:

a Loom video recorded at 1.5x speed

Security situation:

the last security review happened before the application existed

Future disaster:

It will silently skip 2% of records.

Age: 135 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 135 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 4 accidental connections, 69 users, alive 19x longer than intended.