CEO's Daughter built an invoice matcher

“It's not indexed.”— Plant Manager

Reason:

Mainly because management has a PowerPoint with a third number. With 89 users and zero documentation.

Built by:

Olivier, a recruiter

Build time:

5 hours 17 minutes

Built with:

plain HTML and 1,900 lines of jQuery

Database:

a database view called final_FINAL_FINAL

Authentication:

the API key has existed since the prototype

Deployment:

running on localhost through a tunnel

Responsible:

Daniel, who only knows the frontend

Documentation:

a PowerPoint with 20 slides

Security situation:

security is handled by being behind the office Wi-Fi

Future disaster:

It will cause IT to ask "what server?".

Age: 6.2 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 823 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 75x longer than intended, older than the department using it, 1 accidental connections.