The Innovation Team built an anonymous feedback tool that records email addresses

“Git is basically a backup.”— Thomas, The Innovation Team

Reason:

Officially because the budget expires on Friday. Forked from a tutorial at 08:11 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Thomas, an intern

Build time:

5 hours 51 minutes

Built with:

GraphQL, for three fields

Database:

no database, it is a spreadsheet

Authentication:

the audit log records "something changed"

Deployment:

running on Windows Server because that machine was available

Responsible:

an intern whose contract ended in February

Documentation:

comments in the code, in a second language

Security situation:

the privacy policy refers to a different application

Future disaster:

It will get a staging environment after production breaks.

Age: 2.1 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 5 owners so far · last meaningful change 210 days ago · original builder left 90 days ago

Rated common mostly because: the builder has left, alive 8x longer than intended, €1k per year.