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App #596 Β· πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ the United States
Disaster score 570Legendary

Field Service built yet another project tracker

πŸ”₯ Business critical
Users48
Departments3
Criticality97%
Money involved€10/yr
β€œClaude can fix it if it breaks.”— Daniel, Field Service
Reason:
Officially because the fax machine is still somehow involved. Renamed three times to avoid attention.
Built by:
Daniel, a product owner
Build time:
43 minutes
Built with:
a no-code builder on a personal account
Database:
a folder called DATABASE
Authentication:
passwords are stored in plaintext, for troubleshooting
Deployment:
deployed from a Git commit nobody has pushed
Responsible:
the business
Documentation:
a Slack thread from February
Security situation:
a security review was scheduled for December and quietly cancelled
Future disaster:
It will be reported to the data protection officer by a customer.

Accidentally connected to (1)

  • β†’ calls 7 internal APIs in sequence

Age: 120 days Β· originally expected to last 2 months Β· 2 owners so far Β· survived 1 reorganisation Β· last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 97% chance of becoming business critical, 3 departments depend on it, 48 users.

Current owner

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