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App #1231 · 🇺🇸 the United States
Disaster score 446Rare
Two People From Sales built a tool checkout system
🔥 Business critical🧟 Builder has left
Users6
Departments2
Criticality93%
Money involved€0/yr
“It's just an Excel replacement.”— Miriam, Two People From Sales
- Reason:
- Officially because the process owner is Ravi, who has never used the time tracking system. With 838 users and 32 feature requests.
- Built by:
- Miriam, a controller
- Build time:
- 8 evenings
- Built with:
- Claude Code on the production branch
- Database:
- a database view called final-final-really-final_FINAL_FINAL
- Authentication:
- permissions are checked by asking "should this person be here?"
- Deployment:
- deployed from Chen's laptop
- Responsible:
- Chen, who inherited it from Miriam by accident
- Documentation:
- comments in the code explaining what the code used to do
- Security situation:
- CSRF protection was temporarily disabled
- Future disaster:
- It will email customer data to a market you do not operate in.
Accidentally connected to (4)
- → sends 25,966 records through email
- → depends on a firewall rule labelled TEMP
- → uses OneDrive as a database backup
- → runs only if the previous job finished before 06:00
Age: 3.0 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 3 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 195 days ago
Rated rare mostly because: 93% chance of becoming business critical, 4 accidental connections, alive 78x longer than intended.
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