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App #1583 · 🇺🇸 the United States
Disaster score 570Legendary
The Factory Floor built a campaign approval workflow
🧟 Builder has left🏛️ Older than the department🕸️ Load bearing
Users1
Departments2
Criticality67%
Money involved€140,921/yr
“We'll add monitoring later.”— Head of Operations
- Reason:
- Officially because the API documentation says "ask Sofia". Started as Suppliers_use-this-one_new.xlsm with a script attached.
- Built by:
- Sarah, a key account manager
- Build time:
- an afternoon, mostly
- Built with:
- Next.js, because the tutorial used it
- Database:
- no database, it is a spreadsheet
- Authentication:
- the MFA code is always 000000 in the test environment
- Deployment:
- deployed manually because CI/CD "was taking too long"
- Responsible:
- Sarah, who left 10 months ago
- Documentation:
- a Loom video nobody can find
- Security situation:
- passwords are stored in a spreadsheet for emergencies
- Future disaster:
- It will stop working the day the free tier ends.
Accidentally connected to (5)
- → emails HR every night at 03:28
- → depends on a DNS entry somebody created manually
- → syncs nightly because "real-time was too risky"
- → writes into the finance database
- → posts failures into a Slack channel nobody watches
⚠️ Removing this app may now destroy the company.
Age: 6.9 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 2 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 210 days ago · original builder left 1842 days ago
Rated legendary mostly because: 5 accidental connections, 67% chance of becoming business critical, €141k per year.
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