CEO's Daughter built Excel with a login screen

“Everyone using it is trustworthy.”— Bastian, CEO's Daughter

Reason:

Allegedly because the workflow has 52 steps and nobody wants to open it. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 34 days ago.

Built by:

Bastian, an analyst

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Next.js, because the tutorial used it

Database:

an Excel file pretending to be a relational database

Authentication:

the encryption key is stored next to the encrypted data

Deployment:

hosted on Chen's personal Vercel account

Responsible:

Priya, who only knows the database

Documentation:

comments in the code explaining what the code used to do

Security situation:

the admin URL contains the word secret

Future disaster:

It will become the source of truth in 5 months.

Age: 7.2 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 4 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 373x longer than intended, 44 users, 22% chance of becoming business critical.