The Transformation Team built an executive dashboard

“Supabase probably handles that.”— Sarah, The Transformation Team

Reason:

Honestly? Because the approval chain includes 8 people and one shared mailbox. With a logo generated at 23:18.

Built by:

Sarah, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

3 evenings

Built with:

Lovable, and a pinch of optimism

Database:

booleans stored as "yes", "no", "Y", "N" and occasionally "maybe"

Authentication:

the production URL still uses :8080

Deployment:

in a Docker container nobody can rebuild

Responsible:

Miriam, who inherited it from Sarah by accident

Documentation:

a diagram on a whiteboard, photographed, then deleted

Security situation:

the encryption key is in the source code

Future disaster:

It will fail five minutes before a board meeting.

Age: 61 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 61 days ago · original builder left 38 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 2 accidental connections, 26% chance of becoming business critical, the builder has left.