Customer Support built an internal job board with two jobs

“Git is basically a backup.”— Marco, Customer Support

Reason:

Because the API documentation says "ask Petra". With a roadmap in the README, last touched 141 days ago.

Built by:

Marco, an intern

Build time:

43 minutes

Built with:

React, Vite and enthusiasm

Database:

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

Authentication:

the browser says "Not Secure", but only in red

Deployment:

running from a zip file called Suppliers_old.xlsx

Responsible:

Ravi, who insists they are not the owner

Documentation:

tribal knowledge, technically

Security situation:

the database is reachable from the public internet

Future disaster:

It will be the only application that still works during the migration.

Age: 6.3 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 3 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 210 days ago · original builder left 229 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: €220k per year, 54% chance of becoming business critical, 96 users.