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App #1595 · 🇺🇸 the United States
Disaster score 570Legendary
Whoever Was In The Meeting built a salary review spreadsheet with buttons
🕸️ Load bearing
Users217
Departments1
Criticality24%
Money involved€31,231/yr
“It's only for one department.”— HR Generalist
- Reason:
- Honestly? Because the last person who understood it left 13 months ago. With 833 users and 81 feature requests.
- Built by:
- Elena, a working student
- Build time:
- 3 evenings
- Built with:
- Lovable, and a pinch of stupidity
- Database:
- a Kubernetes PersistentVolume nobody wants to delete
- Authentication:
- the backend trusts whatever role the frontend sends
- Deployment:
- behind a CDN for an app only used inside one building
- Responsible:
- Finance, according to IT
- Documentation:
- a file called how-it-works-v2-final-final.docx
- Security situation:
- the session never expires
- Future disaster:
- It will process the same invoice 5 times.
Accidentally connected to (5)
- → polls the API every 4 seconds
- → uses Dropbox as object storage
- → depends on a VPN connection that drops every afternoon
- → depends on a folder called Final
- → depends on email attachments arriving before 07:00
⚠️ Removing this app may now destroy the company.
Age: 232 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 232 days ago
Rated legendary mostly because: 5 accidental connections, 217 users, alive 33x longer than intended.
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