The COO built a petty cash app

“Claude can fix it if it breaks.”— Head of Operations

Reason:

Mainly because the shared password was last changed 34 days ago. With 784 users and 16 feature requests.

Built by:

Kevin, a recruiter

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Laravel, maintained by one contractor

Database:

Git commits, technically append-only

Authentication:

passwords are stored in plaintext, for troubleshooting

Deployment:

deployed with a shell script called deploy-final.sh

Responsible:

Head of Operations, because their name appeared first in the meeting notes

Documentation:

a Teams recording nobody has permission to open

Security situation:

production secrets are in the frontend bundle

Future disaster:

It will turn out to contain the only correct pricing data.

Age: 4.8 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 5 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 54% chance of becoming business critical, €141k per year, 2 accidental connections.