CEO Office built a timesheet app because the other timesheet app sucks

“Claude can fix it if it breaks.”— Bastian, CEO Office

Reason:

Because the architecture diagram contains a box labelled "magic". With 72 users and 61 feature requests.

Built by:

Bastian, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

7 evenings

Built with:

Vue, for personal reasons

Database:

an S3 bucket called app_db with public access "temporarily" enabled

Authentication:

the incident response plan is "call personName"

Deployment:

deployed through a GitHub Action that only Petra understands

Responsible:

Operations, but they strongly disagree

Documentation:

a Notion page titled "New docs"

Security situation:

the session never expires

Future disaster:

It will discover its own timezone policy in production.

Age: 44 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 44 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 76% chance of becoming business critical, 203 users, 1 accidental connections.