An intern built a churn predictor trained on 40 rows

“Microsoft probably handles that.”— Olivier, An intern

Reason:

Honestly? Because the project has been 90% finished for 3 months. With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.

Built by:

Olivier, a working student

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

a no-code builder on a personal account

Database:

UUIDs stored as VARCHAR(255), just in case

Authentication:

the secret is in README.md

Deployment:

behind a load balancer pointing to exactly one machine

Responsible:

Miriam, who inherited it during a reorganisation

Documentation:

comments beginning with TODO 2021

Security situation:

the JWT secret is "changeme"

Future disaster:

It will be discovered during due diligence.

Age: 41 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 41 days ago · original builder left 39 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 508 users, 42% chance of becoming business critical, the builder has left.