Facility Services built an internal wiki with 11 pages

“IT would have taken months.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Mainly because the backlog contains 141,536 items and one priority. Forked from a tutorial at 17:36 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Anja, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

React, Vite and enthusiasm

Database:

a Postgres database called final-old-really-final containing 7 years of production data

Authentication:

the password is "Password1!" because it meets the policy

Deployment:

running on port 5000 in production

Responsible:

Finance, according to IT

Documentation:

a PDF containing screenshots of the old UI

Security situation:

the API key is called PUBLIC_API_KEY

Future disaster:

It will email customer data to a market you do not operate in.

Age: 200 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 212 users, alive 29x longer than intended, 17% chance of becoming business critical.