Operations built a cheap copy of a SaaS app

“It has a login screen.”— Tobias, Operations

Reason:

Honestly? Because Budget2026_FIXED_backup.xlsx finally crashed at 16:27. Already exported 214,798 rows to somebody's laptop.

Built by:

Tobias, a working student

Build time:

2 hours 54 minutes

Built with:

a Slack bot doing database writes

Database:

a database dump from July that is "probably current enough"

Authentication:

the encryption key is in the source code

Deployment:

hosted on the demo environment, permanently

Responsible:

an intern's old manager's manager

Documentation:

a Confluence page linking to another Confluence page

Security situation:

the pentest report is still marked draft

Future disaster:

It will be migrated into the official system in 2032.

Age: 19 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 41 days ago

Rated common mostly because: the builder has left, 1 accidental connections, 1 users.