The Front Desk built a depreciation calculator

“It has a padlock icon.”— IT Service Desk

Reason:

Honestly? Because the spreadsheet has 157,202 rows and 81 tabs. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 11 days ago.

Built by:

Marco, a recruiter

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Streamlit, somehow now in production

Database:

an email inbox used as the database

Authentication:

the API accepts requests from anywhere with confidence

Deployment:

running on Ubuntu 20.04 and nobody wants to upgrade it

Responsible:

Jens, according to nobody except Sarah

Documentation:

one README with 11 TODOs

Security situation:

the JWT secret is "changeme"

Future disaster:

It will receive an innovation award.

Age: 3.8 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 3 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 420 days ago · original builder left 389 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 47x longer than intended, nobody owns it, the builder has left.