Data & Analytics built a home office equipment tracker

“Nobody outside the team uses it.”— Ravi, Data & Analytics

Reason:

Mainly because Sales has a newer spreadsheet. With a logo generated at 23:02.

Built by:

Ravi, a working student

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Svelte, because apparently this was the moment to experiment

Database:

a private Slack channel called #data-backup

Authentication:

email magic links to Tobias's personal Gmail

Deployment:

deployed by dragging files into an FTP client

Responsible:

Olivier, who has not touched it in 18 months

Documentation:

none, but the variable names are "pretty clear"

Security situation:

security is handled by keeping the URL secret

Future disaster:

It will delete records older than 122 days, including the important ones.

Age: 2.8 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 6 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 420 days ago · original builder left 404 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 122 users, €82k per year, the builder has left.