Recruiting built a vibe-coded replacement for Salesforce

“It's behind the VPN.”— Managing Director

Reason:

Honestly? Because the printer is somehow involved. Copied to production via floppy disks.

Built by:

Thomas, a team lead

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

an Electron app wrapping a website

Database:

Notion, with one row per customer

Authentication:

the encryption key is in the source code

Deployment:

running on port 8081 in production

Responsible:

Sarah, because everyone else refused

Documentation:

a screenshot of a photographed whiteboard

Security situation:

the security exception expires every year and is renewed every year

Future disaster:

It will be used for an audit nobody told Miriam about.

Age: 75 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 75 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €290k per year, 11 users, alive 3x longer than intended.