Expense Management built a lost parcel tracker

“The API isn't documented.”— HR Generalist

Reason:

Honestly? Because the export button creates Leads_old.xlsx, but nobody knows where. Forked from a tutorial at 16:55 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Sofia, an analyst

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Redis, permanently

Database:

no database, it is a spreadsheet

Authentication:

nobody knows the password, but the browser still does

Deployment:

deployed into production because staging was broken

Responsible:

a Teams channel with 6 active members

Documentation:

tribal knowledge, technically

Security situation:

CSRF protection was temporarily disabled

Future disaster:

It will discover the backups have never been restored.

Age: 4.5 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 5 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 420 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 5 accidental connections, alive 234x longer than intended, 44 users.