Procurement built a conflict-of-interest declaration form

“We'll tell Legal if anyone asks.”— Priya, Procurement

Reason:

Mainly because the process requires signatures from 8 people. Built in 4 hours 38 minutes and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Priya, a field technician

Build time:

7 evenings

Built with:

Supabase, with the service role key somewhere unfortunate

Database:

a SQL Server instance called temp that nobody is allowed to restart

Authentication:

the password manager is memory

Deployment:

deployed with a shell script called deploy-final.sh

Responsible:

Nadia, who only knows the frontend

Documentation:

a diagram on a whiteboard, photographed, then deleted

Security situation:

the audit log was disabled because the disk filled up

Future disaster:

It will stop working when Petra leaves the company.

Age: 2.1 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 6 owners so far · last meaningful change 210 days ago · original builder left 495 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 56x longer than intended, 2 departments depend on it, the builder has left.