Marketing built a price list with its own opinions

“It's read-only. Mostly.”— Miriam, Marketing

Reason:

Mainly because Leads_v2.csv finally crashed at 16:25. With a settings page that does nothing.

Built by:

Miriam, a controller

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

a Slack bot doing database writes

Database:

Supabase with the service role key in the frontend

Authentication:

the API key has existed since the prototype

Deployment:

on a free tier that expires in 25 days

Responsible:

whoever still has the admin password

Documentation:

a PowerPoint from 2025 labelled FINAL

Security situation:

the security review consisted of Priya saying "looks fine"

Future disaster:

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

Age: 4.5 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 1 owner so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 156 users, 4 departments depend on it, alive 27x longer than intended.