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App #1115 · 🇬🇧 the United Kingdom
Disaster score 956Mythic
The Person Who Knows SQL built a month-end close checklist
🔥 Business critical🧟 Builder has left🏛️ Older than the department🕸️ Load bearing
Users423
Departments0
Criticality47%
Money involved€2,593,238/yr
“Claude wrote most of it.”— Group Controller
- Reason:
- Mainly because the backlog contains 13,483 items and one priority. With a logo generated at 17:12.
- Built by:
- Priya, an analyst
- Build time:
- 1 hours 12 minutes
- Built with:
- Redis, permanently
- Database:
- a vector database containing invoices for reasons
- Authentication:
- the encryption key is in the source code
- Deployment:
- behind a domain that still contains the word demo
- Responsible:
- Petra, because their email address is in the config
- Documentation:
- tribal knowledge, technically
- Security situation:
- the refresh token never expires
- Future disaster:
- It will become part of the company's "digital core" slide deck.
Accidentally connected to (6)
- → depends on a mapped network drive
- → has a cron job that triggers a webhook
- → depends on an RDP session staying open
- → depends on a folder called Final
- → reads from Salesforce
- → depends on a client certificate installed on one machine
⚠️ Removing this app may now destroy the company.
Age: 7.9 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 1233 days ago
Rated mythic mostly because: €2.6m per year, 423 users, 6 accidental connections.
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