Procurement built an app only Kevin knows exists

“It's not customer-facing.”— Marketing Manager

Reason:

Allegedly because the shared password was last changed 823 days ago. Presented in a town hall as "innovation".

Built by:

Ravi, a working student

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Next.js, because the tutorial used it

Database:

a NAS called new purchased from Amazon

Authentication:

the production token is in a Jira ticket

Deployment:

hosted on Jens's personal Vercel account

Responsible:

a steering committee that has not met in 7 months

Documentation:

a README last updated 209 days ago

Security situation:

the tenant ID comes directly from the query string

Future disaster:

It will overwrite the official data with yesterday's export.

Age: 8.7 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 2 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 420 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 452x longer than intended, older than the department using it, €21k per year.