Logistics built a canteen menu app

“Everyone has admin because roles were slowing us down.”— Head of Operations

Reason:

Because Bastian has the only working copy of Suppliers_old_new.xlsx. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 411 days ago.

Built by:

Chen, the management assistant

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

React, Vite and unreasonable confidence

Database:

Firebase with open read rules since September

Authentication:

the token expiration date is optional

Deployment:

running from an image tagged latest

Responsible:

Finance, according to IT

Documentation:

an email with the subject "quick overview"

Security situation:

production secrets are in the README

Future disaster:

It will break the day Chen changes their password.

Age: 4.0 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 6 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 246 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 3 accidental connections, €83k per year, alive 49x longer than intended.