Sales built an email campaign sender bypassing marketing

“Nobody would want this data.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Honestly? Because the export takes 51 minutes and sometimes produces an empty file. Renamed three times to avoid attention.

Built by:

Chen, a controller

Build time:

3 hours 31 minutes

Built with:

Vue, for personal reasons

Database:

a second Postgres called production-backup, for safety

Authentication:

SSO, but only for Jens

Deployment:

on a free tier that expires in 12 days

Responsible:

Head of Operations, who calls it "the little tool"

Documentation:

a Confluence page copied from another project

Security situation:

it was reviewed once, by Chen, who built it

Future disaster:

It will be presented at a conference as a success story.

Age: 4.5 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 118x longer than intended, 2 accidental connections, 29 users.