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App #1069 · 🇺🇸 the United States
Disaster score 340Rare
The CEO built a compliance checklist with checkboxes and no checks
Users69
Departments0
Criticality12%
Money involvedunknown
“We'll clean it up after launch.”— Managing Director
- Reason:
- Allegedly because the workshop produced a Miro board with 51 sticky notes. Already exported 74,936 rows to somebody's laptop.
- Built by:
- Ravi, an analyst
- Build time:
- one weekend
- Built with:
- Lovable, and a pinch of optimism
- Database:
- a Postgres database called app_db containing 9 years of production data
- Authentication:
- the API key has existed since the prototype
- Deployment:
- on a Raspberry Pi in the server room
- Responsible:
- a vendor whose support contract expired 9 months ago
- Documentation:
- a Loom video recorded at 1.5x speed
- Security situation:
- the last security review happened before the application existed
- Future disaster:
- It will silently skip 2% of records.
Accidentally connected to (4)
- → depends on a VPN connection that drops every afternoon
- → calls 11 internal APIs in sequence
- → depends on Java 8 for reasons nobody remembers
- → depends on a cron job on another server
Age: 135 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 135 days ago
Rated rare mostly because: 4 accidental connections, 69 users, alive 19x longer than intended.
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