A Former Employee built a supplier complaint tracker

“The business needed it yesterday.”— Marco, A Former Employee

Reason:

Mainly because procurement needs three quotes for something costing €249. Built during an offsite instead of the thing they were asked to build.

Built by:

Marco, the management assistant

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

plain HTML and 1,900 lines of jQuery

Database:

a Raspberry Pi with 6 years of production data

Authentication:

logging out just hides the menu

Deployment:

using a self-signed certificate everybody has accepted

Responsible:

an intern whose contract ended in February

Documentation:

a PowerPoint from 2024 labelled FINAL

Security situation:

the privacy policy refers to a different application

Future disaster:

It will cause IT to ask "what server?".

Age: 268 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 74 days ago · original builder left 120 days ago

Rated common mostly because: the builder has left, alive 9x longer than intended, €7k per year.