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App #1101 · 🇩🇪 Germany
Disaster score 570Legendary
The CEO built a certification expiry alerter
🕸️ Load bearing
Users65
Departments1
Criticality12%
Money involved€8/yr
“We only need it until the migration.”— Plant Manager
- Reason:
- Honestly? Because the integration works unless it is Thursday. With a logo generated at 23:44.
- Built by:
- Katrin, someone from Procurement
- Build time:
- 51 minutes
- Built with:
- Lovable, and a pinch of optimism
- Database:
- three databases, each claiming to be the source of truth
- Authentication:
- "auth is on the roadmap" — has been for 317 days
- Deployment:
- running from a zip file called Customers_backup.csv
- Responsible:
- Finance, according to IT
- Documentation:
- comments that say "do not change this"
- Security situation:
- production secrets are in the README
- Future disaster:
- It will gain 114 users before anyone approves it.
Accidentally connected to (5)
- → depends on a PowerShell script stored on someone's desktop
- → depends on a production secret copied from another project
- → depends on a browser extension
- → depends on a folder called Final
- → parses invoices from email attachments
⚠️ Removing this app may now destroy the company.
Age: 113 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 3 days ago
Rated legendary mostly because: 5 accidental connections, 65 users, it is load bearing.
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