The Person Who Once Used Python built a pricing exception tracker

“It's not customer-facing.”— Anja, The Person Who Once Used Python

Reason:

Honestly? Because Priya from The Person Who Once Used Python is on holiday until June. Presented in a town hall as "innovation".

Built by:

Anja, a working student

Build time:

1 hours 56 minutes

Built with:

a browser extension that somehow became business critical

Database:

an SQLite file called data.db

Authentication:

Marco knows the password

Deployment:

hosted on a server shared with 10 unrelated applications

Responsible:

a project group that technically no longer exists

Documentation:

a Word document called Customers_new_backup.xlsm

Security situation:

the webhook secret is "secret"

Future disaster:

It will export test data into production.

Age: 8.9 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 5 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 74 days ago · original builder left 657 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: €312k per year, 5 departments depend on it, 39% chance of becoming business critical.