The Spreadsheet Committee built a video game

🧟 Builder has left🕸️ Load bearing

Users1

Departments6

Criticality12%

Money involved€74,010/yr

“It's more of a tool.”— Anja, The Spreadsheet Committee

Reason:: Honestly? Because the CEO asked for it in a corridor on a Monday. Forked from a tutorial at 23:02 and never cleaned up.
Built by:: Anja, a key account manager
Build time:: one weekend
Built with:: ChatGPT, copy, paste, repeat
Database:: an array.
Authentication:: the API key is called PUBLIC_API_KEY
Deployment:: running on a server nobody remembers provisioning
Responsible:: a team that has since been reorganised
Documentation:: a Confluence page owned by Tobias, who left
Security situation:: every error response includes the full stack trace
Future disaster:: It will accidentally CC 340 people.

Accidentally connected to (5)

→ depends on a server nobody is allowed to reboot
→ depends on a SaaS trial ending soon
→ has a webhook that triggers a cron job
→ imports yesterday's export because today's is not ready yet
→ syncs with copy of copy of Customers_final_old.xlsm on a shared drive

⚠️ Removing this app may now destroy the company.

Age: 298 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 298 days ago · original builder left 156 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 5 accidental connections, 6 departments depend on it, €74k per year.

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The Spreadsheet Committee built a video game