Supply Chain built a contractor register

“Vercel probably handles backups.”— Plant Manager

Reason:

Honestly? Because the process has 9 steps, 2 of which are "send an email". Built in an afternoon, mostly and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Nadia, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

2 evenings

Built with:

a Teams bot nobody remembers installing

Database:

the old database because migration is scheduled for Q4

Authentication:

every employee is an admin because support tickets were taking too long

Deployment:

on a free tier that expires in 29 days

Responsible:

Tobias, who only knows the database

Documentation:

an email with the subject "quick overview"

Security situation:

the cookie banner is the security feature

Future disaster:

It will eventually process €83,000 per month.

Age: 214 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 349 users, alive 10x longer than intended, 10% chance of becoming business critical.