Operations built a KPI wall for a screen nobody looks at

“Claude wrote most of it.”— Elena, Operations

Reason:

Officially because the spreadsheet has 228,771 rows and 53 tabs. Forked from a tutorial at 17:09 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Elena, an analyst

Build time:

5 evenings

Built with:

Streamlit

Database:

localStorage. That is the whole backend.

Authentication:

a login screen that accepts any password

Deployment:

deployed Friday at 17:33

Responsible:

Anja, currently on parental leave

Documentation:

a Loom video nobody can find

Security situation:

no security review, no plans for one

Future disaster:

It will trigger a call from the works council.

Age: 4.7 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 3 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 1704 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €208k per year, alive 28x longer than intended, the builder has left.