A Committee With No Budget built a meeting cost calculator nobody asked for

“Claude wrote most of it.”— Ravi, A Committee With No Budget

Reason:

Because Priya has the only working copy of Leads.xlsx. Built during an offsite instead of the thing they were asked to build.

Built by:

Ravi, someone from Procurement

Build time:

51 minutes

Built with:

Next.js, because the tutorial used it

Database:

Git commits, technically append-only

Authentication:

the secret is in the screenshot in the README

Deployment:

behind a domain that still contains the word demo

Responsible:

Jens, whose laptop contains the only working environment

Documentation:

a folder called Documentation containing another folder called Old

Security situation:

passwords are "encrypted" with Base64

Future disaster:

It will be discovered during due diligence.

Age: 13 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 13 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: €248k per year, 155 users, 3 departments depend on it.