Finance built a price list with its own opinions

“It's just CRUD.”— Bastian, Finance

Reason:

Officially because the vendor quoted 3 months and three workshops. With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.

Built by:

Bastian, an analyst

Build time:

6 evenings

Built with:

Streamlit

Database:

a database running in a container called final-final-db

Authentication:

the admin route is called /secret

Deployment:

deployed to staging, which customers are now using

Responsible:

an intern whose contract ended in February

Documentation:

a README containing 7 broken links

Security situation:

the firewall rule is labelled TEMP

Future disaster:

It will get backups after the first data loss.

Age: 13 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 49 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 869 users, €56k per year, the builder has left.