Sales built a webinar registration dashboard

“It's just a webhook.”— Jens, Sales

Reason:

Honestly? Because the customer asked for one tiny change. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 623 days ago.

Built by:

Jens, a key account manager

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Make.com being used as infrastructure

Database:

SAP, indirectly, through 9 CSV exports

Authentication:

the service account has global admin, just in case

Deployment:

running on a server last patched 34 days ago

Responsible:

a consultancy that changed its name twice

Documentation:

a Confluence page marked "draft", last edited 11 days ago

Security situation:

the certificate expired 623 days ago

Future disaster:

It will be presented at a conference as a success story.

Age: 3.2 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 5 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 823 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 59% chance of becoming business critical, alive 19x longer than intended, 1 users.