Data & Analytics built a new SaaS replacement built to avoid a €19/month subscription

“The quarter ends Friday.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Officially because the customer asked for one tiny change. Copied to production via floppy disks.

Built by:

Jens, an analyst

Build time:

43 minutes

Built with:

Lovable, plus one emergency GitHub edit

Database:

a Git repository with one JSON file per customer

Authentication:

the security model is a locked office door

Deployment:

deployed from Marco's laptop

Responsible:

the business

Documentation:

none whatsoever

Security situation:

the certificate expired 209 days ago

Future disaster:

It will be reported to the data protection officer by a customer.

Age: 3.5 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 1 owner so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €115k per year, alive 14x longer than intended, 9 users.