The Management Assistant built a customer feedback wall

“It's basically Airtable.”— Miriam, The Management Assistant

Reason:

Honestly? Because nobody had tested it on an iPad. Forked from a tutorial at 17:02 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Miriam, a team lead

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Streamlit

Database:

a backup called backup-final-March.zip

Authentication:

the password manager is someone's browser

Deployment:

running on a VM with 2 GB of free disk space

Responsible:

Priya, until somebody notices

Documentation:

a diagram on a whiteboard, photographed, then deleted

Security situation:

CSRF protection was temporarily disabled

Future disaster:

It will be replaced by a second version of itself.

Age: 7.8 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: €420k per year, alive 408x longer than intended, 4 departments depend on it.