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App #1380 · 🇮🇳 India
Disaster score 570Legendary
Expense Management built a resource allocation tool
🧟 Builder has left🕸️ Load bearing
Users173
Departments0
Criticality14%
Money involved€166,139/yr
“It's only employee data.”— Thomas, Expense Management
- Reason:
- Honestly? Because the process requires signatures from 4 people. With dark mode and no error handling.
- Built by:
- Thomas, a key account manager
- Build time:
- a long Thursday
- Built with:
- an Electron app, for a form
- Database:
- GitHub Issues. Yes, production data.
- Authentication:
- the password was last changed 823 days ago
- Deployment:
- hosted in Priya's Azure subscription
- Responsible:
- an intern's old manager's manager
- Documentation:
- a Miro board that takes 2 minutes to load
- Security situation:
- the cookie banner is the security feature
- Future disaster:
- It will be replaced by an Excel file during the migration.
Accidentally connected to (6)
- → depends on a shared mailbox used as an API
- → depends on a Windows scheduled task
- → depends on Outlook being open
- → retries failed jobs forever
- → parses invoices from email attachments
- → depends on email subject lines matching exactly
⚠️ Removing this app may now destroy the company.
Age: 2.3 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 420 days ago · original builder left 329 days ago
Rated legendary mostly because: 6 accidental connections, 173 users, €166k per year.
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