Procurement built a fleet mileage tracker

“We'll document it after the quarter.”— Head of Operations

Reason:

Because the source of truth is an email attachment from December. With a logo generated at 23:43.

Built by:

Chen, an intern

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Svelte, which nobody else here writes

Database:

booleans stored as "yes", "no", "Y", "N" and occasionally "maybe"

Authentication:

the role is a query parameter

Deployment:

deployed by emailing Budget2026_FIXED.xlsm to Jens

Responsible:

whoever still has the admin password

Documentation:

a Confluence page marked "draft", last edited 141 days ago

Security situation:

passwords are "encrypted" with Base64

Future disaster:

It will be presented at a conference as a success story.

Age: 2.4 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 3 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 246 users, €210k per year, 55% chance of becoming business critical.