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App #848 · 🇺🇸 the United States
Disaster score 570Legendary
R&D built an email campaign sender bypassing marketing
🏛️ Older than the department🕸️ Load bearing
Users1
Departments0
Criticality12%
Money involved€1,963/yr
“You need to know the exact link.”— Thomas, R&D
- Reason:
- Allegedly because the dashboard is updated manually every Thursday. With a settings page that does nothing.
- Built by:
- Thomas, a warehouse supervisor
- Build time:
- 9 evenings
- Built with:
- Python and a cron job on a laptop
- Database:
- a CSV that gets overwritten every Friday
- Authentication:
- the audit log contains passwords
- Deployment:
- deployed behind a Cloudflare Tunnel from Petra's laptop
- Responsible:
- whoever answers the support email
- Documentation:
- a PDF containing screenshots of the old UI
- Security situation:
- logout only hides the menu
- Future disaster:
- It will be discovered during due diligence.
Accidentally connected to (5)
- → depends on email subject lines matching exactly
- → depends on an Excel macro
- → depends on a folder called Incoming
- → polls the API every 4 seconds
- → depends on a production secret copied from another project
⚠️ Removing this app may now destroy the company.
Age: 5.0 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 6 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 823 days ago
Rated legendary mostly because: 5 accidental connections, alive 87x longer than intended, it is load bearing.
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