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App #837 · 🇺🇸 the United States
Disaster score 570Legendary
Dog Shelter Team built a deployment button
🕸️ Load bearing
Users24
Departments2
Criticality14%
Money involved€287/yr
“Nobody would want this data.”— Regional Sales Lead
- Reason:
- Allegedly because the roadmap says Q3, but nobody wrote down the year. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 317 days ago.
- Built by:
- Nadia, a product owner
- Build time:
- an afternoon, mostly
- Built with:
- Vue, for personal reasons
- Database:
- a SharePoint list with 2,283 items
- Authentication:
- the secret is in .env.example
- Deployment:
- SSL certificate expires in 6 days
- Responsible:
- "the team", which is Nadia
- Documentation:
- one README with 7 TODOs
- Security situation:
- it emails a CSV of everything at 14:51, nightly
- Future disaster:
- It will create a GDPR incident somebody describes as "probably minor".
Accidentally connected to (5)
- → parses screenshots using OCR
- → depends on email attachments arriving before 07:00
- → depends on an Access database
- → depends on a PowerShell script stored on someone's desktop
- → depends on a firewall rule labelled TEMP
⚠️ Removing this app may now destroy the company.
Age: 179 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 179 days ago
Rated legendary mostly because: 5 accidental connections, alive 26x longer than intended, 2 departments depend on it.
Current owner
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