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App #245 Β· πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ the United States
Disaster score 389Rare

CEO's Daughter built a shift planner that emails PDFs

πŸ”₯ Business critical
Users1
Departments5
Criticality88%
Money involved€163,013/yr
β€œClaude wrote most of it.”— HR Generalist
Reason:
Honestly? Because Ravi has the only working copy of Customers_new2.csv. With 2 tests, all skipped.
Built by:
Elena, a warehouse supervisor
Build time:
a long Thursday
Built with:
WordPress with eleven plugins
Database:
Lukas's laptop, technically
Authentication:
the secret is in Git history, so deleting it felt pointless
Deployment:
restarted manually every Tuesday
Responsible:
"the team", which is Elena
Documentation:
a README containing 6 broken links
Security situation:
all users technically have admin permissions
Future disaster:
It will eventually process €2,400 per month.

Accidentally connected to (1)

  • β†’ downloads a CSV from SAP at 03:00

Age: 88 days Β· originally expected to last 2 months Β· 2 owners so far Β· last meaningful change 88 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 88% chance of becoming business critical, 5 departments depend on it, €163k per year.

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