The Front Desk built a CSV merger

“It's just an Excel replacement.”— Finance Business Partner

Reason:

Officially because someone built a prototype during lunch. With dark mode and no error handling.

Built by:

Ravi, someone from Procurement

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

WordPress with eleven plugins and one critical shortcode

Database:

a vector database containing invoices for reasons

Authentication:

the password was last changed 209 days ago

Deployment:

behind a CDN for an app only used inside one building

Responsible:

Lukas, who only knows the frontend

Documentation:

a Jira ticket with 26 comments

Security situation:

it emails a CSV of everything at 23:44, nightly

Future disaster:

It will be described as "legacy" before its first birthday.

Age: 1.0 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 210 days ago · original builder left 311 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 2 accidental connections, €33k per year, alive 17x longer than intended.