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App #839 · 🇺🇸 the United States
Disaster score 509Rare
CEO's Daughter built a customer feedback wall
🧟 Builder has left🏛️ Older than the department
Users329
Departments1
Criticality36%
Money involved€47,914/yr
“It's more of a tool.”— HR Generalist
- Reason:
- Officially because the ticket has been open for 209 days. With 48 users and 37 feature requests.
- Built by:
- Elena, a recruiter
- Build time:
- a long Thursday
- Built with:
- an AI agent with shell access
- Database:
- Airtable on Tobias's personal plan
- Authentication:
- nobody knows the password, but the browser still does
- Deployment:
- running in Docker Compose on a machine named new
- Responsible:
- a former employee still helping occasionally
- Documentation:
- a Miro board that takes 4 minutes to load
- Security situation:
- MFA exists for the admin account, which everybody shares
- Future disaster:
- It will eventually process €8,600 per month.
Accidentally connected to (3)
- → reads directly from the production database
- → downloads nightly exports from an SFTP server nobody monitors
- → parses invoices from email attachments
Age: 5.6 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 3 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 1048 days ago
Rated rare mostly because: 329 users, 3 accidental connections, 36% chance of becoming business critical.
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