The COO built a parking complaint portal

“It's not really an application.”— Katrin, The COO

Reason:

Because the architecture diagram contains a box labelled "manual step". Forked from a tutorial at 09:11 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Katrin, an analyst

Build time:

4 evenings

Built with:

an Electron app wrapping a website

Database:

sessionStorage, because localStorage felt too permanent

Authentication:

rate limiting is "please don't"

Deployment:

running on localhost through a tunnel

Responsible:

an intern whose contract ended in February

Documentation:

an email with the subject "quick overview"

Security situation:

production secrets are in the README

Future disaster:

It will get a Jira project before it gets documentation.

Age: 140 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 90 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 4 departments depend on it, €84k per year, the builder has left.