CEO's Daughter built a lunch order aggregator

“It only writes when necessary.”— Daniel, CEO's Daughter

Reason:

Honestly? Because the printer is somehow involved. Forked from a tutorial at 08:48 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Daniel, a field technician

Build time:

5 hours 10 minutes

Built with:

React, Vite and enthusiasm

Database:

no database, it is a spreadsheet

Authentication:

the production URL still uses :8080

Deployment:

in a Docker container nobody can rebuild

Responsible:

Priya, who has not touched it in 13 months

Documentation:

a folder called Documentation containing another folder called Old

Security situation:

the encryption key is in the source code

Future disaster:

It will overwrite the official data with yesterday's export.

Age: 5.5 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 4 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 74 days ago · original builder left 1100 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 410 users, alive 96x longer than intended, 24% chance of becoming business critical.