Sales built a pricing calculator

“It's basically an internal tool.”— Sofia, Sales

Reason:

Because SAP logs you out after 11 minutes of inactivity. Already exported 14,689 rows to somebody's laptop.

Built by:

Sofia, a field technician

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Streamlit

Database:

Supabase with the service role key in the frontend

Authentication:

SSO, but only for Sofia

Deployment:

behind a domain that still contains the word demo

Responsible:

Miriam, until somebody notices

Documentation:

a PDF exported from PowerPoint

Security situation:

it has an admin panel, unlinked, unprotected

Future disaster:

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

Age: 14 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 14 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 5 departments depend on it, 85 users, €443 per year.