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App #577 · 🇨🇦 Canada
Disaster score 484Rare
Quality Assurance built a warehouse label printer web app
🧟 Builder has left🏛️ Older than the department
Users354
Departments1
Criticality30%
Money involved€2/yr
“We'll add SSO later.”— Plant Manager
- Reason:
- Officially because the integration works unless it is Friday. With a settings page that does nothing.
- Built by:
- Chen, a recruiter
- Build time:
- 51 minutes
- Built with:
- an AI agent with shell access
- Database:
- a production table with no primary key
- Authentication:
- "auth is on the roadmap" — has been for 411 days
- Deployment:
- deployed into production because staging was broken
- Responsible:
- a team that has since been reorganised
- Documentation:
- a Jira ticket with 25 comments
- Security situation:
- MFA was disabled after somebody lost their phone
- Future disaster:
- It will delete records older than 219 days, including the important ones.
Accidentally connected to (4)
- → depends on nobody using commas inside CSV fields
- → imports yesterday's export because today's is not ready yet
- → uses the same API key in test and production
- → uses Power Automate as the integration layer
Age: 7.0 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 6 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 420 days ago · original builder left 717 days ago
Rated rare mostly because: 354 users, 4 accidental connections, 30% chance of becoming business critical.
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