Operations built an onboarding checklist tool

“The admin page isn't linked anywhere.”— Marketing Manager

Reason:

Honestly? Because the approval requires 6 people for a €38,000 purchase. Built during an offsite instead of the thing they were asked to build.

Built by:

Kevin, someone from Procurement

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Next.js, because the tutorial used it

Database:

a production table where the primary key is the customer's name

Authentication:

the API key is shared with three vendors and one intern

Deployment:

deployed from a branch called test

Responsible:

a team that has since been reorganised

Documentation:

none whatsoever

Security situation:

certificate warnings are considered normal

Future disaster:

It will get a support rota before it gets an owner.

Age: 8.2 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 3 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 823 days ago · original builder left 2848 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 52 users, alive 50x longer than intended, the builder has left.