Maintenance built a cash flow forecast

“Supabase probably handles that.”— Managing Director

Reason:

Officially because Stock_list.xlsx is stored on Bastian's desktop. Copied to production via floppy disks.

Built by:

Daniel, a recruiter

Build time:

7 evenings

Built with:

a Chrome extension installed manually on 47 laptops

Database:

passwords stored in a column called password

Authentication:

the password manager is someone's browser

Deployment:

automatically restarted by a cron job because nobody fixed the memory leak

Responsible:

"digital transformation"

Documentation:

a Jira ticket with 43 comments

Security situation:

the user's role is stored in localStorage

Future disaster:

It will be replaced by an Excel file during the migration.

Age: 9.0 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 3 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 235x longer than intended, older than the department using it, 18 users.