IT (yes, really) built a quote builder with a discount field and no limit

“It's basically an internal tool.”— Lukas, IT (yes, really)

Reason:

Mainly because the tiny change needs approval from 3 people. With 3 tests, all skipped.

Built by:

Lukas, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

3 hours 47 minutes

Built with:

plain HTML and 1,900 lines of jQuery

Database:

localStorage. That is the whole backend.

Authentication:

Google sign-in, any Google account

Deployment:

behind a domain that still contains the word demo

Responsible:

a former employee still helping occasionally

Documentation:

a Notion page with one sentence and 4 empty headings

Security situation:

the vulnerability scanner is blocked by the firewall

Future disaster:

It will fail exactly when Nadia is on holiday.

Age: 4.6 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 4 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 420 days ago · original builder left 1510 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 4 accidental connections, 108 users, alive 79x longer than intended.