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App #1642 · 🇺🇸 the United States
Disaster score 700Legendary
Operational Excellence built a packaging material inventory
🔥 Business critical🕸️ Load bearing
Users370
Departments0
Criticality58%
Money involved€578,025/yr
“It's just an Excel replacement.”— Olivier, Operational Excellence
- Reason:
- Mainly because the retention policy is "do not delete anything". Renamed twice to avoid attention.
- Built by:
- Olivier, a field technician
- Build time:
- 51 minutes
- Built with:
- Zapier being used as middleware
- Database:
- Firebase with open read rules since August
- Authentication:
- the production token is in the onboarding document
- Deployment:
- deployed 13 minutes before the builder went on holiday
- Responsible:
- IT, according to Finance
- Documentation:
- a photographed whiteboard from a workshop
- Security situation:
- production secrets are in the README
- Future disaster:
- It will be used for payroll by accident.
Accidentally connected to (5)
- → depends on a SharePoint list
- → posts failures into a Slack channel nobody watches
- → depends on Leads_v2_FIXED.csv having exactly 24 columns
- → depends on the worksheet being called Sheet1
- → depends on a Teams channel used as a queue
⚠️ Removing this app may now destroy the company.
Age: 4.6 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 5 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 3 days ago
Rated legendary mostly because: 370 users, €578k per year, 5 accidental connections.
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