HR built a customer feedback wall

“Everyone using it is trustworthy.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Allegedly because the roadmap says Q1, but nobody wrote down the year. With a logo generated at 17:22.

Built by:

Sofia, a team lead

Build time:

2 hours 56 minutes

Built with:

WordPress with eleven plugins

Database:

Firebase with open read rules since November

Authentication:

the certificate is self-signed and everybody clicked through

Deployment:

last successfully deployed 34 days ago

Responsible:

Katrin, whose laptop contains the only working environment

Documentation:

an architecture diagram with 7 arrows labelled API

Security situation:

every error response includes the full stack trace

Future disaster:

It will be replaced by another tool built by Sofia.

Age: 45 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 6x longer than intended, 9 users, €10k per year.