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App #197 · 🇬🇧 the United Kingdom
Disaster score 755Legendary
Marketing built an invoice matcher
☠️ No known owner🔥 Business critical🧟 Builder has left🕸️ Load bearing
Users49
Departments2
Criticality79%
Money involved€611,443/yr
“It's not indexed.”— Group Controller
- Reason:
- Allegedly because the integration has been "temporarily disabled" for 2 months. With a settings page that does nothing.
- Built by:
- Sofia, an intern
- Build time:
- 7 evenings
- Built with:
- WordPress with eleven plugins
- Database:
- an API endpoint called /getAllData
- Authentication:
- the login page is protected by another login page
- Deployment:
- deployed straight to production on a Tuesday, no staging
- Responsible:
- a shared mailbox nobody reads
- Documentation:
- a PowerPoint with 28 slides
- Security situation:
- MFA exists for the admin account, which everybody shares
- Future disaster:
- It will be replaced by another tool built by Thomas.
Accidentally connected to (6)
- → depends on a SaaS trial ending soon
- → parses PDFs using regex
- → runs only if the previous job finished before 06:00
- → writes into the finance database
- → downloads nightly exports from an SFTP server nobody monitors
- → depends on Node 16 specifically
⚠️ Removing this app may now destroy the company.
Age: 227 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 227 days ago · original builder left 155 days ago
Rated legendary mostly because: €611k per year, 6 accidental connections, 79% chance of becoming business critical.
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