The Management Assistant built a fleet mileage tracker

“The data is mostly public anyway.”— HR Generalist

Reason:

Because the test account belongs to Priya from someone from Procurement. With dark mode and no error handling.

Built by:

Ravi, a key account manager

Build time:

51 minutes

Built with:

React, Vite and enthusiasm

Database:

Redis with persistence disabled because "it is only a cache"

Authentication:

the password is stored in a Teams channel called "Passwords"

Deployment:

running on localhost through a tunnel

Responsible:

the person sitting closest to the printer

Documentation:

three different architecture diagrams

Security situation:

passwords are "encrypted" with Base64

Future disaster:

It will process the same invoice 3 times.

Age: 2.4 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 5 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 420 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 754 users, 3 departments depend on it, alive 15x longer than intended.