Procurement built Excel with a login screen

“It's only one database.”— Nadia, Procurement

Reason:

Officially because the vendor quoted 3 months and one workshop. Built in 4 evenings and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Nadia, an analyst

Build time:

4 hours 14 minutes

Built with:

React, Vite and enthusiasm

Database:

one table with 124 columns

Authentication:

the production server is reachable from the guest Wi-Fi

Deployment:

running in Kubernetes with one pod and no reason

Responsible:

whoever answers the support email

Documentation:

a Loom video recorded at 1.5x speed

Security situation:

the audit log is console.log

Future disaster:

It will email the entire customer list to one customer.

Age: 100 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 100 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 463 users, 1 departments depend on it, 10% chance of becoming business critical.