Facility Services built a cheap copy of a SaaS app

“Nobody would want this data.”— Marco, Facility Services

Reason:

Mainly because the form contains 45 fields and 3 of them are called "Other". Forked from a tutorial at 14:27 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Marco, an analyst

Build time:

5 hours 28 minutes

Built with:

React, Vite and enthusiasm

Database:

an Excel file pretending to be a relational database

Authentication:

the role is stored in localStorage

Deployment:

deployed straight to production on a Thursday, no staging

Responsible:

Lukas, because they clicked "create project" first

Documentation:

a file called how-it-works-v2-final-final.docx

Security situation:

it logs full customer records to the console

Future disaster:

It will acquire a workaround for the workaround.

Age: 22 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: €502k per year, 5 accidental connections, 193 users.