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App #754 · 🇩🇪 Germany
Disaster score 340Rare
Dog Shelter Team built a cheap copy of a SaaS app
Users1
Departments0
Criticality17%
Money involved€261,188/yr
“It's anonymised-ish.”— Elena, Dog Shelter Team
- Reason:
- Mainly because the deletion process requires a ticket, a manager and 9 approvals. With dark mode and no error handling.
- Built by:
- Elena, a team lead
- Build time:
- one weekend
- Built with:
- a no-code builder on a personal account
- Database:
- an API that returns CSV
- Authentication:
- the security review was postponed until after launch
- Deployment:
- SSL certificate expires in 16 days
- Responsible:
- "digital transformation"
- Documentation:
- one README with 14 TODOs
- Security situation:
- the penetration test found it by accident
- Future disaster:
- It will be replaced by an Excel file during the migration.
Accidentally connected to (4)
- → depends on a production secret copied from another project
- → imports yesterday's export because today's is not ready yet
- → shares one service account with 10 integrations
- → has a webhook that triggers a cron job
Age: 4.1 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago
Rated rare mostly because: 4 accidental connections, €261k per year, alive 71x longer than intended.
Current owner
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