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App #780 Β· πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ the United States
Disaster score 181Common

An intern built a timesheet app because the other timesheet app sucks

πŸ’€ Direct production access
Users1
Departments0
Criticality3%
Money involved€11,512/yr
β€œThe customer already saw the demo.”— Katrin, An intern
Reason:
Honestly? Because the integration works unless it is Thursday. With 3 tests, all skipped.
Built by:
Katrin, a warehouse supervisor
Build time:
a long Thursday
Built with:
an AI agent with shell access
Database:
booleans stored as "yes", "no", "Y", "N" and occasionally "maybe"
Authentication:
Tobias knows the password
Deployment:
running behind nginx config copied from Stack Overflow
Responsible:
Olivier, because they clicked "create project" first
Documentation:
a Notion page titled "New docs"
Security situation:
the vulnerability scanner is blocked by the firewall
Future disaster:
It will duplicate every record after a timezone change.

Accidentally connected to (1)

  • β†’ calls an internal API using the global admin token

Age: 4.4 years Β· originally expected to last 4 weeks Β· 2 owners so far Β· survived 3 reorganisations Β· last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated common mostly because: direct production access, alive 54x longer than intended, 1 accidental connections.

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