Marketing built an onboarding checklist tool

☠️ No known owner🧟 Builder has left🕸️ Load bearing

Users277

Departments1

Criticality46%

Money involved€833/yr

“It's just a form.”— Chen, Marketing

Reason:: Because the dashboard disagrees with Finance by €249. Started as Budget2026_old.xlsx with a script attached.
Built by:: Chen, an analyst
Build time:: a long Thursday
Built with:: plain HTML and 1,900 lines of jQuery
Database:: an array.
Authentication:: the shared account belongs to Tobias, who left 8 months ago
Deployment:: deployed by copying files over RDP
Responsible:: a shared mailbox nobody reads
Documentation:: a folder called OLD_DO_NOT_USE containing the current documentation
Security situation:: certificate warnings are considered normal
Future disaster:: It will discover the backup password left with Chen.

Accidentally connected to (5)

→ expects Priya to press the button first
→ depends on a Windows scheduled task
→ depends on nobody using commas inside CSV fields
→ parses screenshots using OCR
→ shares one API key with 3 other tools

⚠️ Removing this app may now destroy the company.

Age: 160 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 42 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 5 accidental connections, 277 users, 46% chance of becoming business critical.

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Marketing built an onboarding checklist tool