Nobody, Officially built an office football betting pool

“We'll put it on the roadmap.”— Ravi, Nobody, Officially

Reason:

Honestly? Because the ticket has been open for 411 days. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 623 days ago.

Built by:

Ravi, a recruiter

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

React, Vite and enthusiasm

Database:

a SQLite file inside a Docker volume nobody has backed up

Authentication:

the security model is "nobody knows this URL"

Deployment:

deployed at 11:18 because "nobody will be using it then"

Responsible:

a Teams channel with 5 active members

Documentation:

three different architecture diagrams

Security situation:

the encryption key is in the source code

Future disaster:

It will stop working when Olivier's credit card expires.

Age: 121 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 121 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 5 departments depend on it, alive 17x longer than intended, 19 users.