Manufacturing built a warehouse stock counter

“It's more of a proof of concept.”— Managing Director

Reason:

Officially because the bug is now documented behaviour. With 782 users and zero documentation.

Built by:

Elena, an analyst

Build time:

6 evenings

Built with:

an internal API copied from a Stack Overflow answer

Database:

a column called do_not_use that is required

Authentication:

the security model is "it is behind Cloudflare"

Deployment:

accessible through an IP address because DNS is "later"

Responsible:

a shared mailbox nobody reads

Documentation:

a Loom video nobody can find

Security situation:

security is handled by being "internal only"

Future disaster:

It will be migrated into SAP and then quietly migrated back.

Age: 77 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 30 days ago

Rated common mostly because: nobody owns it, the builder has left, 1 users.