Marketing built Excel with a login screen

“The customer already saw the demo.”— Tobias, Marketing

Reason:

Officially because the architecture diagram contains a box labelled "manual step". Forked from a tutorial at 23:17 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Tobias, a field technician

Build time:

4 hours 36 minutes

Built with:

Next.js, because the tutorial used it

Database:

a production snapshot from April because restore testing felt risky

Authentication:

the JWT secret is "changeme"

Deployment:

behind a domain registered for €3 during a workshop

Responsible:

whoever happens to be on call

Documentation:

a screenshot of a photographed whiteboard

Security situation:

the JWT secret is "changeme"

Future disaster:

It will break the day Tobias changes their password.

Age: 2.4 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 4 owners so far · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €75k per year, alive 10x longer than intended, 2 users.