I love the term "weirdware": I've seen systems like that built (and used!) first-hand multiple times in my career. They can sometimes be very odd force multipl

I love the term "weirdware": I've seen systems like that built (and used!) first-hand multiple times in my career. They can sometimes be very odd force multipliers in unexpected ways. My favorite example is a home-rolled payroll applications specifically for sales people from over a decade ago. When I first arrived at the org I thought they were absolutely insane to have created such a thing. But its killer feature was that it allowed our org to pay out commissions rapidly (same day) and also allowed negotiating on a per-account residual commission basis as well as giving management the option to buy-out residuals. Off-the-shelf solutions at that time kinda-sorta did this but required either massive upfront $$$ and a ton of integration work. A plucky startup couldn't afford it. This was built, tested, and rolled-out in 45 days by 2 engineers and basically allowed them to poach top sales people because they knew they could get paid faster and had more flexibility on residuals.