The Board Office built a secret Santa allocator

“Supabase probably handles that.”— Lukas, The Board Office

Reason:

Because the vendor quoted €249 and a discovery phase. With dark mode and no error handling.

Built by:

Lukas, a team lead

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

an Electron app, for a form

Database:

an Oracle database that costs more than the application

Authentication:

logging out just hides the menu

Deployment:

deployed by dragging files into an FTP client

Responsible:

Sofia, whose laptop contains the only working environment

Documentation:

a Notion page with one sentence and 10 empty headings

Security situation:

it was reviewed once, by Lukas, who built it

Future disaster:

It will get a Jira project before it gets documentation.

Age: 7.1 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 4 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 420 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €65k per year, alive 43x longer than intended, 2 departments depend on it.