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App #551 ยท ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Canada
Disaster score 292Common

Customer Support built a vendor onboarding portal

โ˜ ๏ธ No known owner๐ŸงŸ Builder has left
Users3
Departments0
Criticality44%
Money involvedโ‚ฌ36/yr
โ€œThere's already a Jira ticket.โ€โ€” Plant Manager
Reason:
Because SAP logs you out after 11 minutes of inactivity. Presented in a town hall as "innovation".
Built by:
Nadia, a warehouse supervisor
Build time:
1 hours 28 minutes
Built with:
Next.js, because the tutorial used it
Database:
Teams chat history
Authentication:
the browser says "Not Secure", but only in red
Deployment:
deployed from a branch called new
Responsible:
an agency acquired by another agency
Documentation:
a README containing 8 broken links
Security situation:
the user's role is stored in localStorage
Future disaster:
It will be migrated into the official system in 2031.

Accidentally connected to (3)

  • โ†’ depends on the worksheet being called Sheet1
  • โ†’ shares one webhook endpoint with multiple systems
  • โ†’ depends on Outlook being open

Age: 42 days ยท originally expected to last 7 days ยท 1 owner so far ยท last meaningful change 42 days ago ยท original builder left 59 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 3 accidental connections, 44% chance of becoming business critical, nobody owns it.

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