IT (yes, really) built a customer health score with a formula in a comment

“The budget expires this week.”— Tobias, IT (yes, really)

Reason:

Because the official CRM takes 7 clicks to approve a €40 purchase. With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.

Built by:

Tobias, an intern

Build time:

5 hours 21 minutes

Built with:

Next.js, because the tutorial used it

Database:

Chen's laptop, technically

Authentication:

production is technically the test environment

Deployment:

running in a Kubernetes cluster created for a proof of concept

Responsible:

a team that has since been reorganised

Documentation:

comments in the code, in a second language

Security situation:

the API key is called PUBLIC_API_KEY

Future disaster:

It will eventually need a migration project larger than the app itself.

Age: 1.2 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 372 days ago

Rated common mostly because: the builder has left, alive 15x longer than intended, €11k per year.