Logistics built an asset register for 400 laptops

“It only has admin access because read-only didn't work.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Honestly? Because the existing report is a PDF of a screenshot of Suppliers_new2_new2.xlsx. Built during an offsite instead of the thing they were asked to build.

Built by:

Sarah, a recruiter

Build time:

6 evenings

Built with:

Next.js, because the tutorial used it

Database:

an FTP server nobody knows the password for

Authentication:

the API key is shared with three vendors and one intern

Deployment:

hosted on Bastian's personal Vercel account

Responsible:

Finance, apparently

Documentation:

a Confluence page copied from another project

Security situation:

the temporary firewall rule is 2 months old

Future disaster:

It will delete records older than 126 days, including the important ones.

Age: 1.9 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 694 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 3 departments depend on it, 37 users, €27k per year.