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App #37 · 🇨🇦 Canada
Disaster score 290Common
HR built an internal wiki with 11 pages
✨ Friday deployment🧟 Builder has left🏛️ Older than the department
Users4
Departments1
Criticality13%
Money involved€11,000/yr
“Claude wrote most of it.”— Miriam, HR
- Reason:
- Allegedly because two teams disagreed about a column name for 4 weeks. Forked from a tutorial at 08:38 and never cleaned up.
- Built by:
- Miriam, a field technician
- Build time:
- one weekend
- Built with:
- WordPress with eleven plugins
- Database:
- Airtable on Thomas's personal plan
- Authentication:
- Basic Auth over plain HTTP
- Deployment:
- deployed straight to production on a Friday, no staging
- Responsible:
- Ravi, currently on parental leave
- Documentation:
- a Slack thread from February
- Security situation:
- it logs full customer records to the console
- Future disaster:
- It will send an invoice of €38,000 to the wrong country.
Accidentally connected to (2)
- → shares one API key with 4 other tools
- → emails HR every night at 04:43
Age: 6.0 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 3 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 1656 days ago
Rated common mostly because: 2 accidental connections, alive 37x longer than intended, the builder has left.
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