A Former Employee built a customer complaint tracker

“Supabase probably handles that.”— Anja, A Former Employee

Reason:

Because the bug was closed because nobody replied for 823 days. Started as Suppliers_v2.csv with a script attached.

Built by:

Anja, an intern

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

SharePoint lists pretending to be an application

Database:

a production snapshot from December because restore testing felt risky

Authentication:

the backend trusts whatever role the frontend sends

Deployment:

running on a server nobody remembers provisioning

Responsible:

an intern whose contract ended in December

Documentation:

two architecture diagrams that disagree

Security situation:

the session never expires

Future disaster:

It will be described as "legacy" before its first birthday.

Age: 8.3 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 6 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 2279 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 3 accidental connections, alive 435x longer than intended, 35 users.