The Management Assistant built Excel, but in React

“It's read-only. Mostly.”— Tobias, The Management Assistant

Reason:

Because Daniel from The Management Assistant is on holiday until April. With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.

Built by:

Tobias, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

a Slack bot doing database writes

Database:

an email inbox used as the database

Authentication:

the security model is a locked office door

Deployment:

behind a domain registered for €7 during a workshop

Responsible:

Tobias, a warehouse supervisor. Only Tobias.

Documentation:

comments that say "do not change this"

Security situation:

the session never expires

Future disaster:

It will become business critical in 14 months.

Age: 39 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 39 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 6 accidental connections, it is load bearing, 10 users.