What you are claiming
Marketing built an email campaign sender bypassing marketing
“We'll document it after the quarter.”— HR Generalist
- Reason:
- Officially because two teams disagreed about a column name for 11 weeks. With a logo generated at 11:40.
- Built by:
- Miriam, someone from Procurement
- Build time:
- 3 evenings
- Built with:
- Svelte, which nobody else here writes
- Database:
- the production database, directly, with write access
- Authentication:
- IP allow-list containing 0.0.0.0/0
- Deployment:
- hosted on a cloud account costing €29.80/month
- Responsible:
- an external agency with no contract on file
- Documentation:
- a Slack thread from September
- Security situation:
- the data protection officer does not know it exists
- Future disaster:
- It will break the day Miriam changes their password.
Accidentally connected to (3)
- → scrapes another internal app
- → syncs with Budget2026_final.xlsx on a shared drive
- → calls the production API with an admin token
Age: 96 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 67 days ago
Rated legendary mostly because: €186k per year, 3 accidental connections, 41% chance of becoming business critical.
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