Facilities built an NPS survey with one respondent

“We barely store passwords.”— Head of Operations

Reason:

Allegedly because the export takes 43 minutes and sometimes produces an empty file. Quietly rolled out to three countries.

Built by:

Kevin, a controller

Build time:

12 minutes

Built with:

Google Apps Script

Database:

an API endpoint called /getAllData

Authentication:

the webhook secret is "secret"

Deployment:

running in Kubernetes with one pod and no reason

Responsible:

nobody. It has no owner.

Documentation:

none, but the variable names are "pretty clear"

Security situation:

a security review was scheduled for October and quietly cancelled

Future disaster:

It will be the only application that still works during the migration.

Age: 7.7 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 6 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 74 days ago · original builder left 1973 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 225 users, alive 47x longer than intended, nobody owns it.