Field Service built a headcount planning app

“Claude can fix it if it breaks.”— Marketing Manager

Reason:

Because the form takes 23 minutes to complete and times out after 13. With dark mode and no error handling.

Built by:

Bastian, a working student

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

a Notion database with automations

Database:

Neo4j because someone drew arrows on a whiteboard

Authentication:

the session cookie expires in 10 years

Deployment:

kept alive by a scheduled task every 13 minutes

Responsible:

Finance, according to IT

Documentation:

comments in the code, in a second language

Security situation:

the data protection officer does not know it exists

Future disaster:

It will delete records older than 346 days, including the important ones.

Age: 2.3 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 893 users, 4 accidental connections, 5 departments depend on it.