An intern built an email campaign sender bypassing marketing

“It has HTTPS.”— Sofia, An intern

Reason:

Because nobody could find the right SharePoint folder in 27 minutes of looking. With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.

Built by:

Sofia, a controller

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

an Electron app, for a form

Database:

a database running in a container called final-final-db

Authentication:

the user ID is a query parameter

Deployment:

running on a laptop with 25% battery

Responsible:

a shared mailbox nobody reads

Documentation:

an architecture diagram with 4 arrows labelled API

Security situation:

it stores passwords, hashed with nothing

Future disaster:

It will be mentioned in an audit finding using the words "material weakness".

Age: 6.9 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 5 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 210 days ago · original builder left 1162 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: €236k per year, alive 84x longer than intended, 32 users.