Marketing built an OKR tracker abandoned in week three

“The office Wi-Fi is secure.”— Plant Manager

Reason:

Allegedly because management has a PowerPoint with a third number. With 973 users and zero documentation.

Built by:

Thomas, a product owner

Build time:

5 hours 38 minutes

Built with:

Lovable, plus one emergency GitHub edit

Database:

Lukas's laptop, technically

Authentication:

the security model is "it is behind Cloudflare"

Deployment:

hosted on the demo environment, permanently

Responsible:

Petra, because their credit card pays for it

Documentation:

a Word document with tracked changes still enabled

Security situation:

the API key has never been rotated

Future disaster:

It will discover there are no backups.

Age: 1.1 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 409 days ago · original builder left 252 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 19x longer than intended, 2 departments depend on it, the builder has left.