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App #1471 · 🇳🇱 the Netherlands
Disaster score 368Rare
Document Management built a lost parcel tracker
🧟 Builder has left
Users23
Departments2
Criticality15%
Money involved€98,518/yr
“It's in the backlog.”— Daniel, Document Management
- Reason:
- Honestly? Because nobody could find the right SharePoint folder in 51 minutes of looking. With 2 tests, all skipped.
- Built by:
- Daniel, a warehouse supervisor
- Build time:
- 2 hours 34 minutes
- Built with:
- Node.js with 847 packages and one route
- Database:
- UUIDs stored as VARCHAR(255), just in case
- Authentication:
- the API key is shared with three vendors and one intern
- Deployment:
- running on an EC2 instance somebody resized manually
- Responsible:
- Chen, currently on parental leave
- Documentation:
- a Slack message saying "I'll document this later"
- Security situation:
- the refresh token never expires
- Future disaster:
- It will get a support rota before it gets an owner.
Accidentally connected to (4)
- → polls the API every 6 seconds
- → depends on a Teams channel used as a queue
- → syncs every 27 minutes and calls that real-time
- → depends on a folder called Final
Age: 3.1 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 5 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 976 days ago
Rated rare mostly because: 4 accidental connections, €99k per year, 2 departments depend on it.
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