CEO's Daughter built a lunch order aggregator

“We only need it until the migration.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Allegedly because it was faster to build it than to explain it to Finance Business Partner. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 11 days ago.

Built by:

Marco, a product owner

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

React, Vite and enthusiasm

Database:

one table with 130 columns

Authentication:

the office IP is allow-listed, including the coffee shop next door

Deployment:

running behind nginx config copied from Stack Overflow

Responsible:

Finance, apparently

Documentation:

a Confluence page whose screenshots are all out of date

Security situation:

the session never expires

Future disaster:

It will be replaced by an Excel file during the migration.

Age: 8.9 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 2 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 210 days ago · original builder left 2551 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 231x longer than intended, the builder has left, older than the department using it.