An intern built Excel, but in React

“Claude wrote most of it.”— Olivier, An intern

Reason:

Mainly because the process requires signatures from 2 people. With a settings page that does nothing.

Built by:

Olivier, a product owner

Build time:

9 evenings

Built with:

Excel macros, exposed over HTTP

Database:

Airtable on Sarah's personal plan

Authentication:

"auth is on the roadmap" — has been for 317 days

Deployment:

in a Docker container nobody can rebuild

Responsible:

a contractor invoicing €1182/day through a third party

Documentation:

a Confluence page marked "draft", last edited 317 days ago

Security situation:

it was reviewed once, by Olivier, who built it

Future disaster:

It will be presented at a conference as a success story.

Age: 1.5 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 2 accidental connections, €61k per year, 2 departments depend on it.