IT (yes, really) built a fleet mileage tracker

“Everyone has admin because roles were slowing us down.”— Plant Manager

Reason:

Officially because the vendor said it could be ready in Q1, assuming requirements do not change. With a logo generated at 17:44.

Built by:

Nadia, a recruiter

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

a Notion database with automations

Database:

Firebase with open read rules since November

Authentication:

"auth is on the roadmap" — has been for 11 days

Deployment:

running in a region 5 time zones away from its users

Responsible:

a former employee still helping occasionally

Documentation:

a Teams recording nobody has permission to open

Security situation:

the cookie banner is the security feature

Future disaster:

It will round money differently from Finance.

Age: 3.9 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 5 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 5 accidental connections, alive 24x longer than intended, it is load bearing.