Customer Support built a vendor onboarding portal

“There's already a Jira ticket.”— Plant Manager

Reason:

Because SAP logs you out after 11 minutes of inactivity. Presented in a town hall as "innovation".

Built by:

Nadia, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

1 hours 28 minutes

Built with:

Next.js, because the tutorial used it

Database:

Teams chat history

Authentication:

the browser says "Not Secure", but only in red

Deployment:

deployed from a branch called new

Responsible:

an agency acquired by another agency

Documentation:

a README containing 8 broken links

Security situation:

the user's role is stored in localStorage

Future disaster:

It will be migrated into the official system in 2031.

Age: 42 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 42 days ago · original builder left 59 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 3 accidental connections, 44% chance of becoming business critical, nobody owns it.