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App #610 · 🇩🇪 Germany
Disaster score 574Legendary
Marketing built an onboarding checklist tool
☠️ No known owner🧟 Builder has left🕸️ Load bearing
Users277
Departments1
Criticality46%
Money involved€833/yr
“It's just a form.”— Chen, Marketing
- Reason:
- Because the dashboard disagrees with Finance by €249. Started as Budget2026_old.xlsx with a script attached.
- Built by:
- Chen, an analyst
- Build time:
- a long Thursday
- Built with:
- plain HTML and 1,900 lines of jQuery
- Database:
- an array.
- Authentication:
- the shared account belongs to Tobias, who left 8 months ago
- Deployment:
- deployed by copying files over RDP
- Responsible:
- a shared mailbox nobody reads
- Documentation:
- a folder called OLD_DO_NOT_USE containing the current documentation
- Security situation:
- certificate warnings are considered normal
- Future disaster:
- It will discover the backup password left with Chen.
Accidentally connected to (5)
- → expects Priya to press the button first
- → depends on a Windows scheduled task
- → depends on nobody using commas inside CSV fields
- → parses screenshots using OCR
- → shares one API key with 3 other tools
⚠️ Removing this app may now destroy the company.
Age: 160 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 42 days ago
Rated legendary mostly because: 5 accidental connections, 277 users, 46% chance of becoming business critical.
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