Marketing Operations built a database frontend that is mostly an export button

“Supabase probably handles that.”— Plant Manager

Reason:

Mainly because someone built a prototype during lunch. Copied to production via floppy disks.

Built by:

Miriam, an analyst

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Google Apps Script

Database:

the legacy system's database through a read-only user with write permissions

Authentication:

the production URL still uses :8080

Deployment:

on a free tier that expires in 13 days

Responsible:

a former employee still helping occasionally

Documentation:

a Confluence page owned by Katrin, who left

Security situation:

all users technically have admin permissions

Future disaster:

It will export test data into production.

Age: 6.2 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 420 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 112 users, €63k per year, alive 38x longer than intended.