Marketing built a barcode scanner that only works on one phone

“We just need it until SAP is updated.”— Daniel, Marketing

Reason:

Honestly? Because Leads_final_new.xlsx finally crashed at 11:09. Built during an offsite instead of the thing they were asked to build.

Built by:

Daniel, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

React, Vite and enthusiasm

Database:

a second Postgres called production-2-really-final, for safety

Authentication:

no login. It is on the intranet, so it is fine.

Deployment:

on the marketing website's server, somehow

Responsible:

Daniel, who left 14 months ago

Documentation:

a Loom video nobody can find

Security situation:

the data protection officer does not know it exists

Future disaster:

It will trigger a call from the works council.

Age: 9.1 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 3 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 74 days ago · original builder left 2721 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 110x longer than intended, the builder has left, older than the department using it.