One of the projects started a year ago was to replace our tech/status dashboard. Two of our new people were even dedicated to developing it full time for 6 ~ 8 months. I found out today the entire board is gone, and it's been replaced to a link to Service Now.

Nearly a year of work, completely flushed down the tubes. Glad I wasn't on that project.

I hear you! First real project I had at a company as a new hire was supposed to be a central reporting thing, much needed as such, so I poured everything into it. It was replacing a verly manual process of feeeding Google Forms with a lot of shit, to where most of it was fetched automatically from various systems. Worked great, everyone liked it.

2 months after it was launched, they canned it because upper management redesigned their flow-of-information workflow architecture flow chart whatever to catch all numbers they cared about from a few other systems... in a manual fashion... 🤷‍♂️

First project I worked on, back when I was an apprentice. The whole team provided a bespoke system for a customer which took us about 9 months.
We handed it over and my company got paid, but then the customer was taken over by a larger company and our solution never went live.
Didn’t bother us though because we had no support to do and the company I was at paid all the devs a nice bonus for completing on time.

The downside was that that was my first gig and I came away from it thinking that getting paid a bonus at the end of a project was normal, but nowhere I’ve been since has done that.