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App #1578 · 🇦🇺 Australia
Disaster score 293Common
Logistics built a canteen menu app
🧟 Builder has left
Users1
Departments1
Criticality10%
Money involved€83,420/yr
“Everyone has admin because roles were slowing us down.”— Head of Operations
- Reason:
- Because Bastian has the only working copy of Suppliers_old_new.xlsx. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 411 days ago.
- Built by:
- Chen, the management assistant
- Build time:
- one weekend
- Built with:
- React, Vite and unreasonable confidence
- Database:
- Firebase with open read rules since September
- Authentication:
- the token expiration date is optional
- Deployment:
- running from an image tagged latest
- Responsible:
- Finance, according to IT
- Documentation:
- an email with the subject "quick overview"
- Security situation:
- production secrets are in the README
- Future disaster:
- It will break the day Chen changes their password.
Accidentally connected to (3)
- → reads from a read replica with write permissions
- → depends on 3 free-tier services
- → reads from Salesforce
Age: 4.0 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 6 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 246 days ago
Rated common mostly because: 3 accidental connections, €83k per year, alive 49x longer than intended.
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