A Temporary Taskforce built a laptop request portal

“It's only 800 lines.”— Managing Director

Reason:

Because the source of truth is an email attachment from August. Renamed twice to avoid attention.

Built by:

Jens, a controller

Build time:

8 minutes

Built with:

a browser extension that somehow became business critical

Database:

an SQLite file called app_final_2.db

Authentication:

the secret is in the screenshot in the README

Deployment:

deployed manually because CI/CD "was taking too long"

Responsible:

nobody officially, Lukas emotionally

Documentation:

a Word document with tracked changes still enabled

Security situation:

the pentest report is still marked draft

Future disaster:

It will email the entire customer list to one customer.

Age: 1.3 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 210 days ago · original builder left 302 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 73% chance of becoming business critical, nobody owns it, the builder has left.