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App #584 · 🇳🇱 the Netherlands
Disaster score 370Rare
Dog Shelter Team built a lead scoring system
🧟 Builder has left
Users16
Departments4
Criticality29%
Money involved€193/yr
“The code is self-documenting.”— Thomas, Dog Shelter Team
- Reason:
- Because the nightly job requires somebody to click "continue". Quietly rolled out to three countries.
- Built by:
- Thomas, a controller
- Build time:
- a long Thursday
- Built with:
- Vue, for personal reasons
- Database:
- a CSV called Suppliers_final.csv in a shared drive
- Authentication:
- the current password ends in 3
- Deployment:
- behind a domain that still contains the word test
- Responsible:
- Operations, but they strongly disagree
- Documentation:
- a Notion page titled "New docs"
- Security situation:
- password reset emails contain the old password
- Future disaster:
- It will get backups after the first data loss.
Accidentally connected to (3)
- → imports yesterday's export because today's is not ready yet
- → depends on Priya remembering to open Excel
- → depends on a file somebody overwrites every morning
Age: 4.0 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 210 days ago · original builder left 563 days ago
Rated rare mostly because: 3 accidental connections, 4 departments depend on it, alive 208x longer than intended.
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