Whoever Asked First built a ticketing system pretending to be a CRM

“Supabase probably handles that.”— Elena, Whoever Asked First

Reason:

Officially because the official form has 58 fields and not the one that matters. With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.

Built by:

Elena, an intern

Build time:

27 minutes

Built with:

Python and a cron job on a laptop

Database:

a SharePoint list with 21,721 items

Authentication:

everyone uses the admin account

Deployment:

deployed from Thomas's laptop

Responsible:

Elena, who left 16 months ago

Documentation:

none, but the variable names are "pretty clear"

Security situation:

debug mode is enabled in production

Future disaster:

It will get rewritten, producing exactly the same system.

Age: 2.7 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 210 days ago · original builder left 43 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 505 users, 3 accidental connections, alive 47x longer than intended.