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App #1279 · 🇺🇸 the United States
Disaster score 570Legendary
Revenue Operations built a product catalogue that disagrees with the product catalogue
🧟 Builder has left💀 Direct production access🕸️ Load bearing
Users2
Departments0
Criticality36%
Money involved€17,015/yr
“The quarter ends Friday.”— HR Generalist
- Reason:
- Because the form takes 33 minutes to complete and times out after 8. Quietly rolled out to two countries.
- Built by:
- Miriam, a key account manager
- Build time:
- one weekend
- Built with:
- Power Apps, licensed to exactly one employee
- Database:
- a Map().
- Authentication:
- IP allow-list containing 0.0.0.0/0
- Deployment:
- deployed from Bastian's laptop
- Responsible:
- an intern whose contract ended in September
- Documentation:
- a Loom video whose owner account has been deleted
- Security situation:
- the audit log was disabled because the disk filled up
- Future disaster:
- It will process the same invoice 3 times.
Accidentally connected to (5)
- → depends on a Teams channel used as a queue
- → calls an internal API using the global admin token
- → depends on a server nobody is allowed to reboot
- → depends on Node 16 specifically
- → has a Zapier workflow nobody can access
⚠️ Removing this app may now destroy the company.
Age: 13 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 53 days ago
Rated legendary mostly because: 5 accidental connections, 36% chance of becoming business critical, direct production access.
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