Production built a vendor contract tracker

“ChatGPT can probably regenerate it.”— Managing Director

Reason:

Allegedly because two teams disagreed about a column name for 12 weeks. Forked from a tutorial at 08:47 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Petra, a team lead

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Lovable, and a pinch of optimism

Database:

Trello cards with JSON in the descriptions

Authentication:

one shared password, written on a sticky note in the warehouse office

Deployment:

running on an EC2 instance somebody resized manually

Responsible:

Finance, apparently

Documentation:

Katrin's memory

Security situation:

debug mode is enabled in production

Future disaster:

It will still be running in 2035.

Age: 129 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 61 days ago

Rated mythic mostly because: €3.1m per year, 833 users, 6 departments depend on it.