Field Service built a fleet mileage tracker

“We can rebuild it properly later.”— Finance Business Partner

Reason:

Because the licence costs €38,000 per user, per month. With dark mode and no error handling.

Built by:

Jens, a key account manager

Build time:

8 minutes

Built with:

Python and a cron job on a laptop

Database:

a MySQL database called test-2 on a machine under a desk

Authentication:

an API key in the frontend bundle

Deployment:

running on a laptop with 16% battery

Responsible:

"the team", which is Jens

Documentation:

none whatsoever

Security situation:

a security review was scheduled for December and quietly cancelled

Future disaster:

It will be replaced by a second version of itself.

Age: 93 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 218 users, 4 accidental connections, 5 departments depend on it.