R&D built a meme outbid.lol clone

“SharePoint has version history.”— Chen, R&D

Reason:

Officially because the source of truth is an email attachment from December. Forked from a tutorial at 11:59 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Chen, a working student

Build time:

5 hours 2 minutes

Built with:

Streamlit

Database:

a database running in a container called final-final-db

Authentication:

permissions are managed in a spreadsheet

Deployment:

deployed with a shell script called deploy-final.sh

Responsible:

the business

Documentation:

a Jira ticket with 91 comments

Security situation:

every error response includes the full stack trace

Future disaster:

It will be presented to management as evidence that shadow IT works.

Age: 4.5 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: €1.9m per year, 322 users, alive 27x longer than intended.