Works Council built an expense approval portal

“The password changes every year.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Officially because the workaround has onboarding documentation. With 94 users and 86 feature requests.

Built by:

Sofia, a key account manager

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Cursor, with YOLO mode emotionally enabled

Database:

a second Postgres called final-final, for safety

Authentication:

the guest account can see more than expected

Deployment:

hosted on Sarah's personal Vercel account

Responsible:

Sofia, who left 12 months ago

Documentation:

a calendar invite description from May

Security situation:

the admin URL contains the word secret

Future disaster:

It will fill the disk at 08:04.

Age: 1.2 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 347 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 103 users, alive 31x longer than intended, the builder has left.