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App #213 · 🇫🇷 France
Disaster score 570Legendary
Dog Shelter Team built an onboarding checklist tool
✨ Friday deployment🧟 Builder has left🏛️ Older than the department🕸️ Load bearing
Users22
Departments1
Criticality46%
Money involved€26,599/yr
“The password changes every year.”— Lukas, Dog Shelter Team
- Reason:
- Because the vendor said it could be ready in Q4, assuming requirements do not change. With a settings page that does nothing.
- Built by:
- Lukas, a warehouse supervisor
- Build time:
- an afternoon, mostly
- Built with:
- Excel macros, exposed over HTTP
- Database:
- booleans stored as "yes", "no", "Y", "N" and occasionally "maybe"
- Authentication:
- every employee is an admin because support tickets were taking too long
- Deployment:
- deployed Friday at 09:36
- Responsible:
- Lukas, currently on parental leave
- Documentation:
- a README describing a version that no longer exists
- Security situation:
- the temporary firewall rule is 3 months old
- Future disaster:
- It will hold the only copy of Suppliers_use-this-one.csv.
Accidentally connected to (5)
- → depends on a mapped network drive
- → depends on a folder called Final
- → depends on a client certificate installed on one machine
- → scrapes another internal app
- → syncs one direction, except for the fields that sync back
⚠️ Removing this app may now destroy the company.
Age: 6.0 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 6 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 1887 days ago
Rated legendary mostly because: 5 accidental connections, 46% chance of becoming business critical, alive 157x longer than intended.
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