Operations built an expense approval workflow

“It's only 800 lines.”— Kevin, Operations

Reason:

Because someone called it "basically just CRUD". With dark mode and no error handling.

Built by:

Kevin, a working student

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

a no-code builder on a personal account

Database:

MongoDB where every document has a different schema

Authentication:

"auth is on the roadmap" — has been for 411 days

Deployment:

behind a domain that still contains the word test

Responsible:

Ravi, because they clicked "create project" first

Documentation:

a Loom video recorded at 1.5x speed

Security situation:

security is handled by keeping the URL secret

Future disaster:

It will become a works council agenda item.

Age: 3.2 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 3 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 689 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 169x longer than intended, 32% chance of becoming business critical, the builder has left.