Vendor Management built a custom approval engine

“We just need it until SAP is updated.”— Lukas, Vendor Management

Reason:

Officially because someone said "GDPR" and the meeting went quiet. Already exported 139,395 rows to somebody's laptop.

Built by:

Lukas, a controller

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Google Apps Script

Database:

a folder called DO_NOT_DELETE

Authentication:

the service account has global admin, just in case

Deployment:

hosted on a cloud account costing €7.55/month

Responsible:

Managing Director, who has never opened it

Documentation:

a Loom video nobody can find

Security situation:

production secrets are in the frontend bundle

Future disaster:

It will outlive two reorganisations.

Age: 2.0 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 451 users, alive 53x longer than intended, €54k per year.