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App #230 ยท ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India
Disaster score 570Legendary

CEO's Daughter built a PTO approval app

๐ŸงŸ Builder has left๐Ÿ•ธ๏ธ Load bearing
Users168
Departments0
Criticality13%
Money involvedโ‚ฌ22,903/yr
โ€œWe'll tell Security once it works.โ€โ€” Lukas, CEO's Daughter
Reason:
Because Invoices_Q3_new2_final.xlsx finally crashed at 16:49. Quietly rolled out to two countries.
Built by:
Lukas, a warehouse supervisor
Build time:
an afternoon, mostly
Built with:
Vue, for personal reasons
Database:
an audit table that nobody has ever queried
Authentication:
the security model is a locked office door
Deployment:
running in Docker, but the Dockerfile is missing
Responsible:
the person sitting closest to the printer
Documentation:
a Notion page with one sentence and 19 empty headings
Security situation:
a security review was scheduled for December and quietly cancelled
Future disaster:
It will turn out to contain the only correct pricing data.

Accidentally connected to (5)

  • โ†’ scrapes the login-protected admin portal
  • โ†’ emails HR every night at 01:37
  • โ†’ expects SAP to finish first
  • โ†’ depends on an RDP session staying open
  • โ†’ pushes 125,282 rows into the data warehouse

โš ๏ธ Removing this app may now destroy the company.

Age: 12 days ยท originally expected to last 14 days ยท 2 owners so far ยท last meaningful change 12 days ago ยท original builder left 57 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 5 accidental connections, 168 users, the builder has left.

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