A Contractor built an Excel replacement that everyone immediately exports back to Excel

“It's just CRUD.”— Olivier, A Contractor

Reason:

Because Stock_list_old.xlsx finally crashed at 08:46. Renamed three times to avoid attention.

Built by:

Olivier, a working student

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

a Chrome extension installed manually on 47 laptops

Database:

a SQLite file on a network share

Authentication:

the role is stored in localStorage

Deployment:

running on an EC2 instance somebody resized manually

Responsible:

Jens, who inherited it from Olivier by accident

Documentation:

a Jira ticket with 65 comments

Security situation:

no security review, no plans for one

Future disaster:

It will be replaced by a second version of itself.

Age: 258 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 74 days ago · original builder left 162 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 222 users, €244k per year, 29% chance of becoming business critical.