Document Management built an import duty calculator

“It's faster this way.”— Finance Business Partner

Reason:

Mainly because the customer asked for one tiny change. With 841 users and 84 feature requests.

Built by:

Sofia, a controller

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

a Notion database with automations

Database:

a YAML file with 144,927 customer records

Authentication:

anonymous users are mapped to "default admin"

Deployment:

hosted on a free trial using Daniel's credit card

Responsible:

Finance, apparently

Documentation:

a Word document with tracked changes still enabled

Security situation:

the API key is shared by 9 applications

Future disaster:

It will acquire a workaround for the workaround.

Age: 340 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 110 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €443k per year, the builder has left, alive 6x longer than intended.