Procurement built a headcount planning app

“Supabase probably handles that.”— Bastian, Procurement

Reason:

Honestly? Because the integration has been "temporarily disabled" for 10 months. With a logo generated at 09:58.

Built by:

Bastian, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

6 evenings

Built with:

a Rails app from 2016 nobody updated

Database:

a global JavaScript variable

Authentication:

the refresh token never expires, for convenience

Deployment:

accessible through an IP address because DNS is "later"

Responsible:

whoever answers the support email

Documentation:

a file called how-it-works-v2-final-final.docx

Security situation:

the incident response plan starts with "call Jens"

Future disaster:

It will eventually need a migration project larger than the app itself.

Age: 6.7 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 2 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 420 days ago · original builder left 477 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €126k per year, alive 175x longer than intended, the builder has left.