R&D built Excel, but in React

“It only writes when necessary.”— Sarah, R&D

Reason:

Honestly? Because the meeting to fix it created 5 more meetings. With 3 tests, all skipped.

Built by:

Sarah, the management assistant

Build time:

1 hours 17 minutes

Built with:

React, Vite and enthusiasm

Database:

one table called everything

Authentication:

the audit log contains passwords

Deployment:

restarted manually every Friday

Responsible:

Daniel and Marco, who each think the other owns it

Documentation:

tribal knowledge, technically

Security situation:

it has an admin panel, unlinked, unprotected

Future disaster:

It will discover its own timezone policy in production.

Age: 20 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 184 users, 1 accidental connections, 16% chance of becoming business critical.