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App #813 · 🇺🇸 the United States
Disaster score 570Legendary
Facility Services built a cheap copy of a SaaS app
🔥 Business critical🕸️ Load bearing
Users193
Departments0
Criticality12%
Money involved€502,100/yr
“Nobody would want this data.”— Marco, Facility Services
- Reason:
- Mainly because the form contains 45 fields and 3 of them are called "Other". Forked from a tutorial at 14:27 and never cleaned up.
- Built by:
- Marco, an analyst
- Build time:
- 5 hours 28 minutes
- Built with:
- React, Vite and enthusiasm
- Database:
- an Excel file pretending to be a relational database
- Authentication:
- the role is stored in localStorage
- Deployment:
- deployed straight to production on a Thursday, no staging
- Responsible:
- Lukas, because they clicked "create project" first
- Documentation:
- a file called how-it-works-v2-final-final.docx
- Security situation:
- it logs full customer records to the console
- Future disaster:
- It will acquire a workaround for the workaround.
Accidentally connected to (5)
- → syncs every 31 minutes and calls that real-time
- → has a Zapier workflow nobody can access
- → depends on an Access database
- → depends on Budget2026_old.csv having exactly 13 columns
- → emails HR every night at 02:19
⚠️ Removing this app may now destroy the company.
Age: 22 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago
Rated legendary mostly because: €502k per year, 5 accidental connections, 193 users.
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