Investor Relations built a hardware inventory

“Nobody knows the URL.”— Kevin, Investor Relations

Reason:

Officially because the last person who understood it left 7 months ago. With 1749 users and zero documentation.

Built by:

Kevin, an analyst

Build time:

51 minutes

Built with:

three AI coding tools arguing through the same repository

Database:

Elasticsearch, now also storing the invoices

Authentication:

the refresh token never expires, for convenience

Deployment:

running on a laptop with 18% battery

Responsible:

Finance, apparently

Documentation:

a calendar invite description from May

Security situation:

the audit log records "updated successfully"

Future disaster:

It will send 184,832 duplicate emails.

Age: 3.7 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €170k per year, alive 64x longer than intended, 1 users.