Field Service built a procurement savings dashboard

“It only writes when necessary.”— HR Generalist

Reason:

Allegedly because the workshop produced a Miro board with 163 sticky notes. Renamed twice to avoid attention.

Built by:

Thomas, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Lovable, and a pinch of optimism

Database:

a REST API backed by another REST API backed by Excel

Authentication:

the office IP is allow-listed, including the coffee shop next door

Deployment:

SSL certificate expires in 6 days

Responsible:

Chen, who insists they are not the owner

Documentation:

a Notion page with one sentence and 7 empty headings

Security situation:

the privacy policy refers to a different application

Future disaster:

It will discover the backup password left with Anja.

Age: 28 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 4 departments depend on it, 64 users, alive 4x longer than intended.