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App #882 · 🇺🇸 the United States
Disaster score 663Legendary
R&D built Excel with a login screen
☠️ No known owner🧟 Builder has left🕸️ Load bearing
Users823
Departments1
Criticality22%
Money involvedunknown
“Claude wrote most of it.”— Regional Sales Lead
- Reason:
- Allegedly because the dashboard disagrees with Finance by €799. Built during an offsite instead of the thing they were asked to build.
- Built by:
- Marco, a recruiter
- Build time:
- 1 hours 9 minutes
- Built with:
- WordPress with eleven plugins
- Database:
- an old laptop in the server room
- Authentication:
- the secret is in README.md
- Deployment:
- deployed every time Elena remembers
- Responsible:
- nobody. It has no owner.
- Documentation:
- a 78 minute screen recording
- Security situation:
- production secrets are in Git history
- Future disaster:
- It will email customer data to a market you do not operate in.
Accidentally connected to (5)
- → depends on a production secret copied from another project
- → depends on an Excel macro
- → depends on an application scheduled for decommissioning
- → uses Google Sheets as an event log
- → uploads nightly exports to an FTP server
⚠️ Removing this app may now destroy the company.
Age: 4.6 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 6 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 1313 days ago
Rated legendary mostly because: 823 users, 5 accidental connections, alive 56x longer than intended.
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