R&D built a lead scoring system

“Vercel probably handles backups.”— Marco, R&D

Reason:

Honestly? Because the dashboard is updated manually every Sunday. With dark mode and no error handling.

Built by:

Marco, a product owner

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Python and a cron job on a laptop

Database:

a Google Sheet with 211,896 rows and 75 tabs

Authentication:

the firewall rule says "temporary"

Deployment:

running on an EC2 instance somebody resized manually

Responsible:

Regional Sales Lead, who has never opened it

Documentation:

a Notion page titled "New docs"

Security situation:

the refresh token never expires

Future disaster:

It will hold the only copy of Invoices_Q3_backup.xlsx.

Age: 37 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 37 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 82% chance of becoming business critical, 102 users, 4 departments depend on it.