The Management Assistant built a dashboard connected directly to production

“It's only customer names.”— Lukas, The Management Assistant

Reason:

Because the existing report is a PDF of a screenshot of Invoices_Q3_FIXED.csv. Forked from a tutorial at 14:20 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Lukas, an intern

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Python and a cron job on a laptop

Database:

Supabase on a free tier that pauses in 11 days

Authentication:

the read-only account can update records

Deployment:

running in Docker, but the Dockerfile is missing

Responsible:

Ravi, who thought somebody else owned it

Documentation:

a 117 minute screen recording

Security situation:

the refresh token never expires

Future disaster:

It will be replaced by another tool built by Sarah.

Age: 25 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 25 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 196 users, €23k per year, 1 accidental connections.