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App #1317 · 🇨🇭 Switzerland
Disaster score 364Rare
Digital Transformation built a project status dashboard
🧟 Builder has left
Users1
Departments3
Criticality51%
Money involved€34/yr
“It's in the backlog.”— Olivier, Digital Transformation
- Reason:
- Because the process requires signatures from 8 people. Forked from a tutorial at 14:25 and never cleaned up.
- Built by:
- Olivier, a product owner
- Build time:
- a long Thursday
- Built with:
- a Teams bot nobody remembers installing
- Database:
- one table called data
- Authentication:
- the secret is in the screenshot in the README
- Deployment:
- running on Ubuntu 20.04 and nobody wants to upgrade it
- Responsible:
- Sofia, who inherited it during a reorganisation
- Documentation:
- a Slack message saying "I'll document this later"
- Security situation:
- all users technically have admin permissions
- Future disaster:
- It will get a support rota before it gets an owner.
Accidentally connected to (3)
- → syncs nightly because "real-time was too risky"
- → expects Finance to upload the file first
- → depends on a server nobody is allowed to reboot
Age: 3.9 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 6 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 823 days ago · original builder left 569 days ago
Rated rare mostly because: 51% chance of becoming business critical, 3 accidental connections, alive 203x longer than intended.
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