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App #1493 · 🇺🇸 the United States
Disaster score 570Legendary
Accounting built a vendor contract tracker
🧟 Builder has left💀 Direct production access🏛️ Older than the department🕸️ Load bearing
Users1
Departments1
Criticality12%
Money involved€22/yr
“It's just a cron job.”— HR Generalist
- Reason:
- Mainly because the automation sends an email asking someone to do it manually. With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.
- Built by:
- Nadia, a key account manager
- Build time:
- an afternoon, mostly
- Built with:
- Make.com being used as infrastructure
- Database:
- a production table with no primary key
- Authentication:
- an API key in the frontend bundle
- Deployment:
- running from an image tagged latest
- Responsible:
- Marketing Manager, who delegated it to somebody who left
- Documentation:
- a 104 minute screen recording
- Security situation:
- the API key is called PUBLIC_API_KEY
- Future disaster:
- It will cause Security to ask "what application?".
Accidentally connected to (5)
- → calls the production API with an admin token
- → scrapes another internal app
- → parses PDFs using regex
- → depends on a file somebody overwrites every morning
- → depends on a shared mailbox used as an API
⚠️ Removing this app may now destroy the company.
Age: 6.2 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 6 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 420 days ago · original builder left 1324 days ago
Rated legendary mostly because: 5 accidental connections, alive 160x longer than intended, direct production access.
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