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App #470 · 🇺🇸 the United States
Disaster score 846Mythic
Marketing built a deployment button
🧟 Builder has left💀 Direct production access🏛️ Older than the department🕸️ Load bearing
Users890
Departments0
Criticality61%
Money involved€70,937/yr
“It's just a script.”— Daniel, Marketing
- Reason:
- Honestly? Because procurement needs three quotes for something costing €2,400. With a settings page that does nothing.
- Built by:
- Daniel, a recruiter
- Build time:
- 3 hours 53 minutes
- Built with:
- Next.js, because the tutorial used it
- Database:
- a Google Sheet with an Apps Script nobody remembers writing
- Authentication:
- the guest account can see more than expected
- Deployment:
- running on port 3000 in production
- Responsible:
- Kevin, who inherited it from Daniel by accident
- Documentation:
- a Notion page with one sentence and 9 empty headings
- Security situation:
- the encryption key is stored next to the encrypted data
- Future disaster:
- It will import production data into the test environment.
Accidentally connected to (5)
- → uses Redis as permanent storage
- → shares one API key with 3 other tools
- → calls 11 internal APIs in sequence
- → logs errors into a text file on the server
- → calls an internal API using the global admin token
⚠️ Removing this app may now destroy the company.
Age: 5.9 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 420 days ago · original builder left 517 days ago
Rated mythic mostly because: 890 users, 5 accidental connections, 61% chance of becoming business critical.
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