Dog Shelter Team built a meme outbid.lol clone

“We'll clean it up after the audit.”— Chen, Dog Shelter Team

Reason:

Honestly? Because the official supplier portal takes 19 clicks to close a ticket. With a logo generated at 09:13.

Built by:

Chen, an intern

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Next.js, because the tutorial used it

Database:

a GitHub Gist that became business critical

Authentication:

there is one account called "user"

Deployment:

behind a domain Elena owns privately

Responsible:

"digital transformation"

Documentation:

a README last updated 411 days ago

Security situation:

it is indexed by Google. All of it.

Future disaster:

It will silently skip 9% of records.

Age: 4.6 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 2 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €186k per year, 70 users, alive 18x longer than intended.