Business Process Management built a customs document tracker

“Everyone using it is trustworthy.”— Daniel, Business Process Management

Reason:

Officially because the printer is somehow involved. With a settings page that does nothing.

Built by:

Daniel, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Python and a cron job on a laptop

Database:

a YAML file with 236,749 customer records

Authentication:

permissions are checked by asking "should this person be here?"

Deployment:

behind a domain that still contains the word demo

Responsible:

Kevin, according to nobody except Nadia

Documentation:

comments that say "do not change this"

Security situation:

it is indexed by Google. All of it.

Future disaster:

It will be discovered during due diligence.

Age: 4.3 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 823 days ago · original builder left 196 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 523 users, alive 225x longer than intended, nobody owns it.