Quality Assurance built a contract deadline reminder bot

“It has a login screen.”— IT Service Desk

Reason:

Mainly because the spreadsheet has 239,154 rows and 19 tabs. Quietly rolled out to five countries.

Built by:

Sarah, a team lead

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

an Electron app, for a form

Database:

a vector database containing invoices for reasons

Authentication:

the office IP is allow-listed, including the coffee shop next door

Deployment:

deployed 44 minutes before the builder went on holiday

Responsible:

nobody officially, Bastian emotionally

Documentation:

a PowerPoint from 2025 labelled FINAL

Security situation:

it emails a CSV of everything at 14:28, nightly

Future disaster:

It will stop working when Sofia leaves the company.

Age: 12 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 12 days ago · original builder left 49 days ago

Rated mythic mostly because: 894 users, 100% chance of becoming business critical, €335k per year.