CEO Office built a quote builder with a discount field and no limit

“It's basically Airtable.”— Managing Director

Reason:

Honestly? Because the customer asked for one tiny change. Renamed twice to avoid attention.

Built by:

Miriam, a controller

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Next.js, because the tutorial used it

Database:

a database on Nadia's laptop

Authentication:

a login screen that accepts any password

Deployment:

deployed into production because staging was broken

Responsible:

an external agency with no contract on file

Documentation:

a Slack thread from July

Security situation:

there is one shared admin account

Future disaster:

It will be the only application that still works during the migration.

Age: 85 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 85 days ago · original builder left 75 days ago

Rated common mostly because: nobody owns it, the builder has left, alive 6x longer than intended.