Procurement built an NDA generator

“We didn't have time to wait for IT.”— Finance Business Partner

Reason:

Honestly? Because the CEO tested it on an iPad. With 111 users and 42 feature requests.

Built by:

Elena, a product owner

Build time:

2 hours 3 minutes

Built with:

Next.js, because the tutorial used it

Database:

Elasticsearch, because somebody wanted search

Authentication:

the security review was postponed until after launch

Deployment:

behind a domain Miriam owns privately

Responsible:

Marco, because everyone else refused

Documentation:

one README with 2 TODOs

Security situation:

the firewall rule is labelled TEMP

Future disaster:

It will outlive the vendor that was supposed to replace it.

Age: 8.1 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 5 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 337 users, €230k per year, alive 141x longer than intended.