Contract Management built a CSV-to-CSV conversion service

“It's behind the VPN.”— Daniel, Contract Management

Reason:

Mainly because the lunch prototype is now business critical. With a settings page that does nothing.

Built by:

Daniel, a controller

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Cursor, with YOLO mode emotionally enabled

Database:

a Postgres database called temp

Authentication:

the password manager is memory

Deployment:

behind a domain that still contains the word demo

Responsible:

a steering committee that has not met in 6 months

Documentation:

a file called README-NEW-FINAL.md

Security situation:

the threat model is "why would anyone attack us?"

Future disaster:

It will fill the disk at 16:20.

Age: 1.5 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 420 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: €206k per year, 43% chance of becoming business critical, 3 departments depend on it.