Marketing built a deployment button

“It's just a script.”— Daniel, Marketing

Reason:

Honestly? Because procurement needs three quotes for something costing €2,400. With a settings page that does nothing.

Built by:

Daniel, a recruiter

Build time:

3 hours 53 minutes

Built with:

Next.js, because the tutorial used it

Database:

a Google Sheet with an Apps Script nobody remembers writing

Authentication:

the guest account can see more than expected

Deployment:

running on port 3000 in production

Responsible:

Kevin, who inherited it from Daniel by accident

Documentation:

a Notion page with one sentence and 9 empty headings

Security situation:

the encryption key is stored next to the encrypted data

Future disaster:

It will import production data into the test environment.

Age: 5.9 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 420 days ago · original builder left 517 days ago

Rated mythic mostly because: 890 users, 5 accidental connections, 61% chance of becoming business critical.