CEO's Daughter built a replacement for exactly one feature of SAP

“The database isn't exposed. I think.”— Miriam, CEO's Daughter

Reason:

Honestly? Because the correct dropdown option is "Other". With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.

Built by:

Miriam, a key account manager

Build time:

3 hours 32 minutes

Built with:

Python and a cron job on a laptop

Database:

Elasticsearch, now also storing the invoices

Authentication:

the user ID is a query parameter

Deployment:

deployed on Wednesday immediately before a public holiday

Responsible:

Sofia, who inherited it during a reorganisation

Documentation:

a Confluence page marked "draft", last edited 411 days ago

Security situation:

production secrets are in the frontend bundle

Future disaster:

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

Age: 3.2 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 74 days ago · original builder left 1033 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 83x longer than intended, 27 users, the builder has left.