Legal built a sales dashboard nobody asked for

“It's technically not production.”— Daniel, Legal

Reason:

Because the audit is in 3 weeks. Built during an offsite instead of the thing they were asked to build.

Built by:

Daniel, a working student

Build time:

1 hours 39 minutes

Built with:

a Slack bot doing database writes

Database:

Supabase on a free tier that pauses in 8 days

Authentication:

a login screen that accepts any password

Deployment:

behind a domain Sarah owns privately

Responsible:

Daniel, a working student. Only Daniel.

Documentation:

a Confluence page marked "draft", last edited 209 days ago

Security situation:

it logs full customer records to the console

Future disaster:

It will be migrated into the official system in 2033.

Age: 4.0 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 6 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: €2.0m per year, 504 users, alive 210x longer than intended.