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App #1110 · 🇬🇧 the United Kingdom
Disaster score 340Rare
Nobody, Officially built a company playlist voting app
🧟 Builder has left
Users9
Departments0
Criticality18%
Money involved€20/yr
“We'll add backups later.”— Tobias, Nobody, Officially
- Reason:
- Because nobody had tested it on an iPad. With 1544 users and zero documentation.
- Built by:
- Tobias, a warehouse supervisor
- Build time:
- 8 minutes
- Built with:
- Power Apps, licensed to exactly one employee
- Database:
- SAP, indirectly, through 10 CSV exports
- Authentication:
- the token expiration date is optional
- Deployment:
- kept alive by a scheduled task every 13 minutes
- Responsible:
- Tobias, who left 12 months ago
- Documentation:
- a PowerPoint with 41 slides
- Security situation:
- IT has not been informed and will not be
- Future disaster:
- It will survive the official replacement system.
Accidentally connected to (4)
- → writes directly to the production database
- → receives production data from an IP address hard-coded in source
- → posts failures into a Slack channel nobody watches
- → depends on a server nobody is allowed to reboot
Age: 4.7 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 210 days ago · original builder left 313 days ago
Rated rare mostly because: 4 accidental connections, alive 123x longer than intended, the builder has left.
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