The Warehouse Office built a freelancer invoice tracker

“It only writes when necessary.”— IT Service Desk

Reason:

Honestly? Because the dashboard is updated manually every Tuesday. With dark mode and no error handling.

Built by:

Marco, a field technician

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Docker Compose on a machine called PROD2

Database:

a Git repository with one JSON file per customer

Authentication:

the demo account has production access

Deployment:

behind a domain Lukas owns privately

Responsible:

Marco, a field technician. Only Marco.

Documentation:

an email with the subject "quick overview"

Security situation:

IT has not been informed and will not be

Future disaster:

It will be presented to management as evidence that shadow IT works.

Age: 27 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 27 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 787 users, €1.1m per year, 11% chance of becoming business critical.