Manufacturing built a deal desk approval portal

“It's not indexed.”— Finance Business Partner

Reason:

Honestly? Because the last 10% is authentication, billing and everything else. With dark mode and no error handling.

Built by:

Bastian, an analyst

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

a Notion database with increasingly ambitious automations

Database:

localStorage. That is the whole backend.

Authentication:

the session cookie expires in 10 years

Deployment:

deployed 36 minutes before the builder went on holiday

Responsible:

Bastian, who thought somebody else owned it

Documentation:

none, but the variable names are "pretty clear"

Security situation:

MFA exists for the admin account, which everybody shares

Future disaster:

It will acquire its own workaround.

Age: 93 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 93 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €334k per year, alive 7x longer than intended, 1 users.