The Remote Team built a warehouse label printer web app

“It's more of a tool.”— Marketing Manager

Reason:

Mainly because the prototype has 143,010 production records. Copied to production via floppy disks.

Built by:

Priya, a working student

Build time:

3 evenings

Built with:

Lovable, plus one emergency GitHub edit

Database:

DynamoDB with one item containing everything

Authentication:

the reset password button emails the old password back

Deployment:

deployed on Friday immediately before a public holiday

Responsible:

Miriam, who only knows the frontend

Documentation:

a folder called Documentation containing another folder called Old

Security situation:

it was reviewed once, by Priya, who built it

Future disaster:

It will import production data into the test environment.

Age: 2.8 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 3 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 141 users, €173k per year, alive 73x longer than intended.