Continuous Improvement built a privileged account register

“The data is mostly public anyway.”— Marketing Manager

Reason:

Because procurement needs three quotes for something costing €799. With 1272 users and zero documentation.

Built by:

Jens, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

an internal API copied from a Stack Overflow answer

Database:

Supabase with the service role key in the frontend

Authentication:

the session never expires because that was annoying

Deployment:

restarted manually every Friday

Responsible:

IT Service Desk, who has never opened it

Documentation:

a Slack thread from October

Security situation:

the penetration test found it by accident

Future disaster:

It will email the entire customer list to one customer.

Age: 31 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 31 days ago · original builder left 31 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 408 users, the builder has left, 15% chance of becoming business critical.