Marketing built Excel with a login screen

“Git is basically a backup.”— Marketing Manager

Reason:

Honestly? Because the official form has 27 fields and not the one that matters. With dark mode and no error handling.

Built by:

Lukas, a field technician

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Next.js, because the tutorial used it

Database:

a folder called DO_NOT_DELETE

Authentication:

the password is stored in a spreadsheet called passwords.xlsx

Deployment:

kept alive by a scheduled task every 14 minutes

Responsible:

Marketing Manager, who has never opened it

Documentation:

a PDF containing screenshots of the old UI

Security situation:

the refresh token never expires

Future disaster:

It will be used for an audit nobody told Tobias about.

Age: 12 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 260 users, €243k per year, 3 accidental connections.