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App #1387 · 🇺🇸 the United States
Disaster score 574Legendary
Expense Management built a customer satisfaction dashboard
🧟 Builder has left🕸️ Load bearing
Users283
Departments2
Criticality22%
Money involved€99,535/yr
“We have a backup somewhere.”— Plant Manager
- Reason:
- Because the integration works unless it is Tuesday. Copied to production via floppy disks.
- Built by:
- Jens, a product owner
- Build time:
- 5 evenings
- Built with:
- Bootstrap 3 and a dream
- Database:
- one table called everything
- Authentication:
- the audit log is disabled because it filled the disk
- Deployment:
- behind a domain Priya owns privately
- Responsible:
- Operations, but they strongly disagree
- Documentation:
- a Jira ticket with 25 comments
- Security situation:
- the encryption key is in the source code
- Future disaster:
- It will be presented at a conference as a success story.
Accidentally connected to (5)
- → scrapes another internal app
- → depends on Kevin being logged in
- → depends on a PowerShell script stored on someone's desktop
- → depends on 4 free-tier services
- → receives production data through a webhook with no signature
⚠️ Removing this app may now destroy the company.
Age: 4.4 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 6 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 74 days ago · original builder left 1178 days ago
Rated legendary mostly because: 5 accidental connections, 283 users, €100k per year.
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