R&D built a quote builder with a discount field and no limit

“We didn't have time for architecture.”— Lukas, R&D

Reason:

Honestly? Because the Miro board is now the documentation. Forked from a tutorial at 11:10 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Lukas, a controller

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

a Slack bot doing database writes

Database:

a nightly CSV export emailed to Thomas

Authentication:

the audit log is disabled because it filled the disk

Deployment:

deployed every time Bastian remembers

Responsible:

a project group that technically no longer exists

Documentation:

a Word document called Headcount_v2_FIXED.xlsx

Security situation:

production secrets are in the frontend bundle

Future disaster:

It will discover its own timezone policy in production.

Age: 2.3 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 5 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 3 accidental connections, alive 60x longer than intended, 25% chance of becoming business critical.