Sales built a parking space allocation app

“It's just CRUD.”— Sofia, Sales

Reason:

Because Tobias has the only working copy of Budget2026.xlsx. Quietly rolled out to two countries.

Built by:

Sofia, a recruiter

Build time:

2 hours 47 minutes

Built with:

Power Apps, licensed to one employee

Database:

a Postgres database called main

Authentication:

the incident response plan is "call personName"

Deployment:

behind a CDN for an app only used inside one building

Responsible:

a vendor whose support contract expired 8 months ago

Documentation:

a PDF exported from PowerPoint

Security situation:

CORS is set to * because it fixed the issue

Future disaster:

It will be migrated into SAP and then quietly migrated back.

Age: 359 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 359 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 141 users, alive 26x longer than intended, 1 accidental connections.