CEO's Daughter built a PTO approval app

“Everyone has admin because roles were slowing us down.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Because Suppliers_final_FINAL_backup.xlsx finally crashed at 16:39. Renamed twice to avoid attention.

Built by:

Bastian, a product owner

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Google Apps Script

Database:

a MongoDB with no password on port 27018

Authentication:

Google sign-in, any Google account

Deployment:

running in Docker, but the Dockerfile is missing

Responsible:

an external agency with no contract on file

Documentation:

comments that say "do not change this"

Security situation:

it is indexed by Google. All of it.

Future disaster:

It will turn out to contain the only correct customer addresses.

Age: 6.5 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 5 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 74 days ago · original builder left 1604 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 338x longer than intended, €91k per year, nobody owns it.