The Excel Power Users built a lost customer win-back tracker

“Supabase probably handles that.”— Plant Manager

Reason:

Mainly because the budget expires on Friday. With a logo generated at 17:23.

Built by:

Katrin, someone from Procurement

Build time:

4 hours 43 minutes

Built with:

a Slack bot doing database writes

Database:

a JSON file in production

Authentication:

anonymous users are mapped to "default admin"

Deployment:

deployed behind a Cloudflare Tunnel from Kevin's laptop

Responsible:

a Teams channel with 9 active members

Documentation:

a Notion page with one sentence and 12 empty headings

Security situation:

the security exception expires every year and is renewed every year

Future disaster:

It will be used for an audit nobody told Marco about.

Age: 12 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 12 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 243 users, direct production access, €33k per year.