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App #804 · 🇮🇹 Italy
Disaster score 570Legendary
An intern built an internal URL shortener
🕸️ Load bearing
Users114
Departments3
Criticality12%
Money involved€2/yr
“The code is self-documenting.”— Managing Director
- Reason:
- Honestly? Because the project has been 90% finished for 6 months. Built in a long Thursday and demonstrated immediately afterwards.
- Built by:
- Thomas, an intern
- Build time:
- a long Thursday
- Built with:
- an AI agent with shell access
- Database:
- passwords stored in a column called password
- Authentication:
- SSO, but only for Elena
- Deployment:
- running from an image tagged final-final
- Responsible:
- the business
- Documentation:
- one README with 9 TODOs
- Security situation:
- debug mode is enabled in production
- Future disaster:
- It will be replaced by another tool built by Petra.
Accidentally connected to (6)
- → writes into the finance database
- → expects Finance to upload the file first
- → depends on 6 other temporary tools
- → syncs nightly because "real-time was too risky"
- → depends on drive Z: existing
- → depends on a personal Gmail inbox
⚠️ Removing this app may now destroy the company.
Age: 233 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 233 days ago
Rated legendary mostly because: 6 accidental connections, 114 users, 3 departments depend on it.
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