Logistics built a shift planner that emails PDFs

“It's basically an internal tool.”— Finance Business Partner

Reason:

Honestly? Because the nightly job requires somebody to click "continue". Forked from a tutorial at 11:50 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Daniel, an analyst

Build time:

5 hours 9 minutes

Built with:

a no-code builder on a personal account

Database:

Kafka. Nobody remembers why.

Authentication:

there is one account called "user"

Deployment:

deployed 13 minutes before the builder went on holiday

Responsible:

Finance, according to IT

Documentation:

a diagram on a whiteboard, photographed, then deleted

Security situation:

security is handled by being "internal only"

Future disaster:

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

Age: 1.7 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 624 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: €1.2m per year, 444 users, alive 30x longer than intended.