Data Protection built a board reporting portal

“We have a README.”— Thomas, Data Protection

Reason:

Allegedly because Sales has a newer spreadsheet. Forked from a tutorial at 16:19 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Thomas, a key account manager

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

an AI agent with production credentials

Database:

an email inbox used as the database

Authentication:

the temporary firewall rule has existed for 17 months

Deployment:

deployed into production because staging was broken

Responsible:

Finance, apparently

Documentation:

a Loom video whose owner account has been deleted

Security situation:

authorization happens entirely in the frontend

Future disaster:

It will duplicate every record after a timezone change.

Age: 214 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: €2.1m per year, 628 users, 3 accidental connections.