Customer Support built a quote builder with a discount field and no limit

“It's not customer-facing.”— Plant Manager

Reason:

Allegedly because the procurement tool is only reachable on the VPN, which drops every 8 minutes. With a logo generated at 23:29.

Built by:

Olivier, a recruiter

Build time:

4 evenings

Built with:

Next.js, because the tutorial used it

Database:

a JSON file in Git called production-data.json

Authentication:

the security model is "we have antivirus"

Deployment:

running from a zip file called Stock_list_use-this-one.xlsx

Responsible:

a former employee still helping occasionally

Documentation:

a screenshot of a photographed whiteboard

Security situation:

the security review consisted of opening DevTools

Future disaster:

It will eventually need a migration project larger than the app itself.

Age: 162 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 162 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €299k per year, 29% chance of becoming business critical, 1 departments depend on it.