Logistics built a quote builder with a discount field and no limit

“It's basically a spreadsheet with buttons.”— HR Generalist

Reason:

Because the source of truth is an email attachment from March. Built in an afternoon, mostly and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Jens, a product owner

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Python and a cron job on a laptop

Database:

a Google Sheet with an Apps Script nobody remembers writing

Authentication:

MFA is optional, so naturally nobody uses it

Deployment:

deployed from Kevin's laptop

Responsible:

Operations, but they strongly disagree

Documentation:

a 52 minute screen recording

Security situation:

password reset emails contain the old password

Future disaster:

It will send 225,641 duplicate emails.

Age: 3.9 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 1 owner so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 2 accidental connections, €45k per year, alive 24x longer than intended.