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App #1206 · 🇨🇭 Switzerland
Disaster score 570Legendary
The CEO built a lead scoring model nobody understands
🕸️ Load bearing
Users9
Departments0
Criticality12%
Money involved€9,326/yr
“The API isn't documented.”— Anja, The CEO
- Reason:
- Mainly because the project has been 90% finished for 18 months. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 317 days ago.
- Built by:
- Anja, a product owner
- Build time:
- 8 minutes
- Built with:
- ChatGPT, copy, paste, repeat
- Database:
- Git commits, technically append-only
- Authentication:
- the password is "Password1!" because it meets the policy
- Deployment:
- deployed from a branch called final
- Responsible:
- Finance, apparently
- Documentation:
- a Confluence page owned by Anja, who left
- Security situation:
- the admin account is also the service account
- Future disaster:
- It will be described as "legacy" before its first birthday.
Accidentally connected to (6)
- → uses Slack as a queue
- → depends on dates staying in DD/MM/YYYY
- → shares one API key with 5 other tools
- → reads directly from the production database
- → polls a CSV file for changes
- → parses PDFs using regex
⚠️ Removing this app may now destroy the company.
Age: 1.1 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 405 days ago
Rated legendary mostly because: 6 accidental connections, it is load bearing, alive 7x longer than intended.
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