Procurement built yet another project tracker

“Sales already promised it.”— Marco, Procurement

Reason:

Honestly? Because the budget expires on Friday. With dark mode and no error handling.

Built by:

Marco, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

3 evenings

Built with:

Svelte, which nobody else here writes

Database:

a Google Sheet with 191,966 rows and 31 tabs

Authentication:

the API key is called PUBLIC_API_KEY

Deployment:

using a self-signed certificate everybody has accepted

Responsible:

Operations, but they strongly disagree

Documentation:

none whatsoever

Security situation:

the admin page is protected by not linking to it

Future disaster:

It will import production data into the test environment.

Age: 6.1 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 4 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 420 days ago · original builder left 216 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 6 accidental connections, 52% chance of becoming business critical, alive 37x longer than intended.