Marketing built a customer feedback wall

“It's technically not production.”— Managing Director

Reason:

Honestly? Because the approval chain includes 4 people and one shared mailbox. With 2 tests, all skipped.

Built by:

Lukas, an intern

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

an Electron app, for a form

Database:

Redis with persistence disabled because "it is only a cache"

Authentication:

the threat model is "why would anyone attack us?"

Deployment:

running with 88% disk usage

Responsible:

an intern's old manager's manager

Documentation:

a Slack thread from May

Security situation:

the temporary firewall rule is 12 months old

Future disaster:

It will stop working after someone renames a column.

Age: 8.1 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 4 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 823 days ago · original builder left 1231 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: €1.2m per year, 253 users, alive 421x longer than intended.