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App #1469 · 🇺🇸 the United States
Disaster score 513Rare
R&D built a translation request tracker
✨ Friday deployment🧟 Builder has left
Users565
Departments0
Criticality22%
Money involved€17,115/yr
“The AI understands the code.”— Jens, R&D
- Reason:
- Because the source of truth is an email attachment from August. With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.
- Built by:
- Jens, a field technician
- Build time:
- an afternoon, mostly
- Built with:
- a Slack bot doing database writes
- Database:
- one table called data
- Authentication:
- the logout button refreshes the page
- Deployment:
- deployed straight to production on a Friday, no staging
- Responsible:
- Elena, who has not touched it in 13 months
- Documentation:
- a README last updated 209 days ago
- Security situation:
- no security review, no plans for one
- Future disaster:
- It will fail five minutes before a board meeting.
Accidentally connected to (4)
- → depends on Daniel being logged in
- → depends on a Chrome profile nobody can recreate
- → calls an undocumented endpoint in the ERP
- → writes directly to the production database
Age: 2.1 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 770 days ago · original builder left 204 days ago
Rated rare mostly because: 565 users, 4 accidental connections, 22% chance of becoming business critical.
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