The Team Nobody Remembers Creating built a custom ticket system for six tickets a month

“We'll migrate it eventually.”— Petra, The Team Nobody Remembers Creating

Reason:

Allegedly because the workaround has onboarding documentation. Forked from a tutorial at 17:31 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Petra, an analyst

Build time:

9 evenings

Built with:

Lovable, and a pinch of stupidity

Database:

two databases kept "mostly in sync"

Authentication:

the demo account has production access

Deployment:

on a free tier that expires in 3 days

Responsible:

Petra, an analyst. Only Petra.

Documentation:

a Word document with tracked changes still enabled

Security situation:

no security review, no plans for one

Future disaster:

It will delete records older than 271 days, including the important ones.

Age: 209 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 209 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 607 users, €971k per year, 2 accidental connections.