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App #230 ยท ๐ฎ๐ณ India
Disaster score 570Legendary
CEO's Daughter built a PTO approval app
๐ง Builder has left๐ธ๏ธ Load bearing
Users168
Departments0
Criticality13%
Money involvedโฌ22,903/yr
โWe'll tell Security once it works.โโ 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
โ ๏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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