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App #432 · 🇳🇱 the Netherlands
Disaster score 570Legendary
The Management Assistant built a KPI wall for a screen nobody looks at
💀 Direct production access🕸️ Load bearing
Users129
Departments0
Criticality12%
Money involved€181/yr
“The workshop was tomorrow.”— Marketing Manager
- Reason:
- Mainly because IT said no, politely, in writing, on a Friday. Presented in a town hall as "innovation".
- Built by:
- Petra, a working student
- Build time:
- one weekend
- Built with:
- Airtable plus four Zapier zaps
- Database:
- a Git repository with one JSON file per customer
- Authentication:
- IP allow-list containing 0.0.0.0/0
- Deployment:
- running on port 5173 in production
- Responsible:
- Elena, who insists they are not the owner
- Documentation:
- a Notion page titled "New docs"
- Security situation:
- the audit log is console.log
- Future disaster:
- It will receive an innovation award.
Accidentally connected to (5)
- → scrapes another tool that itself scrapes SAP
- → calls the production API with an admin token
- → emails errors to Jens
- → receives production data from an IP address hard-coded in source
- → depends on a shared mailbox used as an API
⚠️ Removing this app may now destroy the company.
Age: 12 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 12 days ago
Rated legendary mostly because: 5 accidental connections, 129 users, direct production access.
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