IT (yes, really) built a cheap copy of a SaaS app

“It's just an Excel replacement.”— Finance Business Partner

Reason:

Because the documentation starts with "TODO". Forked from a tutorial at 17:09 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Tobias, someone from Procurement

Build time:

8 evenings

Built with:

Streamlit

Database:

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

Authentication:

CORS is set to * because the frontend was not working

Deployment:

running on Ubuntu 22.04 and nobody wants to upgrade it

Responsible:

Lukas, because everyone else refused

Documentation:

an email with the subject "quick overview"

Security situation:

production secrets are in a Slack message

Future disaster:

It will email customer data to a market you do not operate in.

Age: 13 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 1 users, €288 per year.