Executive Office built an Excel-to-PDF converter

“It's only 800 lines.”— Daniel, Executive Office

Reason:

Officially because the process has 11 steps, 2 of which are "send an email". With 2 tests, all skipped.

Built by:

Daniel, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Make.com being used as infrastructure

Database:

Neo4j because someone drew arrows on a whiteboard

Authentication:

the password is stored in a spreadsheet called passwords.xlsx

Deployment:

behind a domain Priya owns privately

Responsible:

Marco, until somebody notices

Documentation:

an email with the subject "quick overview"

Security situation:

the app is secure because the browser shows a padlock

Future disaster:

It will cause IT to ask "what server?".

Age: 21 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 21 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 1 accidental connections, alive 3x longer than intended, 1 users.