Learning & Development built an Excel replacement that everyone immediately exports back to Excel

“The quarter ends Friday.”— HR Generalist

Reason:

Allegedly because the licence costs €799 per year, per seat. Presented in a town hall as "innovation".

Built by:

Priya, a working student

Build time:

7 evenings

Built with:

Replit, because deployment looked like one button

Database:

an S3 bucket called prod-2-final with public access "temporarily" enabled

Authentication:

the password manager is someone's browser

Deployment:

running on port 8081 in production

Responsible:

a project group that technically no longer exists

Documentation:

a Word document called copy of copy of Suppliers_new.csv

Security situation:

the audit log is console.log

Future disaster:

It will stop working the day the free tier ends.

Age: 1.3 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 108 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: €2.6m per year, 293 users, alive 34x longer than intended.