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App #372 · 🇳🇱 the Netherlands
Disaster score 412Rare
Legal built a price list with its own opinions
🧟 Builder has left
Users441
Departments0
Criticality23%
Money involved€7,747/yr
“It's behind the VPN.”— Head of Operations
- Reason:
- Allegedly because the existing report is a PDF of a screenshot of Budget2026.xlsx. With a settings page that does nothing.
- Built by:
- Nadia, a team lead
- Build time:
- an afternoon, mostly
- Built with:
- a Rails app from 2016 nobody updated
- Database:
- a folder called DATABASE
- Authentication:
- IP allow-list containing 0.0.0.0/0
- Deployment:
- behind a domain registered for €14 during a workshop
- Responsible:
- a Teams channel with 8 active members
- Documentation:
- a Confluence page owned by Anja, who left
- Security situation:
- production secrets are in Git history
- Future disaster:
- It will acquire its own workaround.
Accidentally connected to (4)
- → depends on a file called latest.csv
- → depends on a folder called Final
- → depends on a file somebody overwrites every morning
- → runs only if the previous job finished before 06:00
Age: 13 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 13 days ago · original builder left 56 days ago
Rated rare mostly because: 441 users, 4 accidental connections, 23% chance of becoming business critical.
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