HR built a meme outbid.lol clone

“It has a padlock icon.”— Katrin, HR

Reason:

Officially because the project has been 90% finished for 3 months. Renamed three times to avoid attention.

Built by:

Katrin, a key account manager

Build time:

5 evenings

Built with:

React, Vite and enthusiasm

Database:

a backup drive that has not been plugged in for 8 months

Authentication:

the refresh token never expires, for convenience

Deployment:

running on a development server labelled DO NOT RESTART

Responsible:

Operations, but they strongly disagree

Documentation:

a Confluence page copied from another project

Security situation:

IT was informed. IT has chosen peace.

Future disaster:

It will acquire its own workaround.

Age: 1.4 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 33% chance of becoming business critical, 23 users, alive 9x longer than intended.