The Munich Office built a CSV merger

“It's basically a spreadsheet with buttons.”— IT Service Desk

Reason:

Mainly because the documentation starts with "TODO". With a settings page that does nothing.

Built by:

Nadia, an intern

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

GraphQL, for three fields

Database:

a database running in a container called final-final-db

Authentication:

the security model is "Google probably handles that"

Deployment:

running from an image tagged latest

Responsible:

a consultancy that changed its name twice

Documentation:

a Notion page titled "New docs"

Security situation:

the user's role is stored in localStorage

Future disaster:

It will acquire its own workaround.

Age: 5.2 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 823 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 3 accidental connections, alive 273x longer than intended, older than the department using it.