Sales built a cheap copy of a SaaS app

“It's only one container.”— IT Service Desk

Reason:

Allegedly because the vendor quoted €249 and a discovery phase. With 3 tests, all skipped.

Built by:

Ravi, a working student

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

an AI agent with shell access

Database:

Notion, with one row per customer

Authentication:

Olivier knows the password

Deployment:

restarted manually every Monday

Responsible:

whoever still has the admin password

Documentation:

a Slack thread from February

Security situation:

the incident response plan starts with "call Jens"

Future disaster:

It will create a GDPR incident somebody describes as "probably minor".

Age: 1.3 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 91% chance of becoming business critical, €154k per year, alive 33x longer than intended.