An intern built a cheap copy of a SaaS app

“We're too small to get hacked.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Mainly because the CEO found the one button that does not work. With 98 users and 63 feature requests.

Built by:

Bastian, a controller

Build time:

12 minutes

Built with:

a no-code builder on a personal account

Database:

a private Slack channel called #data-backup

Authentication:

every employee is an admin because support tickets were taking too long

Deployment:

running on port 5000 in production

Responsible:

whoever still has the admin password

Documentation:

a Notion page with one sentence and 8 empty headings

Security situation:

production secrets are in .env.example

Future disaster:

It will get its own budget line before it gets an owner.

Age: 19 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €421k per year, 1 accidental connections, 2 users.