Quality Assurance built a price list with its own opinions

“AWS probably handles that.”— Plant Manager

Reason:

Allegedly because the workaround has onboarding documentation. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 623 days ago.

Built by:

Kevin, an intern

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Excel macros, exposed over HTTP

Database:

Notion, with one row per customer

Authentication:

"auth is on the roadmap" — has been for 141 days

Deployment:

deployed behind a Cloudflare Tunnel from Miriam's laptop

Responsible:

whoever answers the support email

Documentation:

two architecture diagrams that disagree

Security situation:

logout only hides the menu

Future disaster:

It will hold the only copy of Invoices_Q3_new2.xlsx.

Age: 12 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 12 days ago · original builder left 57 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 229 users, the builder has left, 15% chance of becoming business critical.