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App #585 · 🇩🇪 Germany
Disaster score 340Rare
Quality Assurance built a visitor sign-in kiosk
Users2
Departments0
Criticality48%
Money involved€5,901/yr
“Git is basically a backup.”— Regional Sales Lead
- Reason:
- Honestly? Because the roadmap says Q4, but nobody wrote down the year. With a logo generated at 17:00.
- Built by:
- Daniel, someone from Procurement
- Build time:
- 43 minutes
- Built with:
- a Notion database with automations
- Database:
- a JSON file in Git called production-data.json
- Authentication:
- authorization is handled in the UI
- Deployment:
- running on a development server labelled DO NOT RESTART
- Responsible:
- the business
- Documentation:
- a README that begins with "temporary notes"
- Security situation:
- the temporary firewall rule is 8 months old
- Future disaster:
- It will duplicate every record after a timezone change.
Accidentally connected to (4)
- → logs errors into a text file on the server
- → receives production data through a webhook with no signature
- → depends on a PowerShell script stored on someone's desktop
- → uses the same API key in test and production
Age: 255 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 210 days ago
Rated rare mostly because: 4 accidental connections, 48% chance of becoming business critical, €6k per year.
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