Quality Assurance built a fleet mileage tracker

“There's already a Jira ticket.”— Head of Operations

Reason:

Officially because Katrin left 3 months ago. Forked from a tutorial at 23:28 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Daniel, the management assistant

Build time:

12 minutes

Built with:

Streamlit

Database:

a SQLite file on a network share

Authentication:

authorization is handled in the UI

Deployment:

hosted on a free trial using Elena's credit card

Responsible:

a project group that technically no longer exists

Documentation:

a README last updated 34 days ago

Security situation:

the API key is shared by 9 applications

Future disaster:

It will be migrated into the official system in 2032.

Age: 91 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 40 users, 21% chance of becoming business critical, alive 3x longer than intended.