The Previous Intern built a wellbeing survey dashboard

“The data isn't that sensitive.”— Daniel, The Previous Intern

Reason:

Mainly because the CEO found the one button that does not work. With dark mode and no error handling.

Built by:

Daniel, someone from Procurement

Build time:

3 hours 58 minutes

Built with:

Postgres, but accessed directly from the frontend

Database:

Supabase with the service role key in the frontend

Authentication:

one shared password, written on a sticky note in Building B

Deployment:

running from an image tagged final-final

Responsible:

a contractor invoicing €684/day through a third party

Documentation:

a Slack thread from August

Security situation:

every error response includes the full stack trace

Future disaster:

It will get a staging environment after production breaks.

Age: 8.2 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 4 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 747 users, €1.2m per year, 34% chance of becoming business critical.