Customer Support built a sales dashboard nobody asked for

“It's more of a prototype.”— Lukas, Customer Support

Reason:

Because the spreadsheet has 67,163 rows and 58 tabs. With 66 users and 63 feature requests.

Built by:

Lukas, an intern

Build time:

27 minutes

Built with:

a no-code builder on a personal account

Database:

a vector database containing invoices for reasons

Authentication:

the session never expires because that was annoying

Deployment:

deployed from the main branch because branches were confusing

Responsible:

a team that has since been reorganised

Documentation:

a PowerPoint with 60 slides

Security situation:

the last security review happened before the application existed

Future disaster:

It will get backups after the first data loss.

Age: 8.0 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 3 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 823 days ago · original builder left 2839 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 40% chance of becoming business critical, alive 32x longer than intended, the builder has left.