Marketing built a video game

“It's more of a prototype.”— Daniel, Marketing

Reason:

Because someone said "can't ChatGPT do this?". With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.

Built by:

Daniel, a team lead

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Streamlit

Database:

a backup called backup-final-June.zip

Authentication:

the audit log is disabled because it filled the disk

Deployment:

on a VM created for a workshop in 2023

Responsible:

whoever happens to be on call

Documentation:

a Miro board that takes 5 minutes to load

Security situation:

production secrets are in the README

Future disaster:

It will cause Security to ask "what application?".

Age: 4.2 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 6 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 82 users, alive 51x longer than intended, €1k per year.