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App #904 · 🇩🇪 Germany
Disaster score 271Common
Finance built a meeting room booking system
Users22
Departments1
Criticality7%
Money involved€92,784/yr
“It's on a weird port.”— Kevin, Finance
- Reason:
- Because the form contains 56 fields and 5 of them are called "Other". With 111 users and 28 feature requests.
- Built by:
- Kevin, a warehouse supervisor
- Build time:
- 1 hours 22 minutes
- Built with:
- an AI agent with shell access
- Database:
- a production snapshot from March because restore testing felt risky
- Authentication:
- the security contact is whoever notices first
- Deployment:
- deployed by dragging files into an FTP client
- Responsible:
- IT, according to Finance
- Documentation:
- a Miro board with 130 sticky notes
- Security situation:
- the pentest report is still marked draft
- Future disaster:
- It will fail exactly when Jens is on holiday.
Accidentally connected to (2)
- → depends on a SaaS trial ending soon
- → depends on nobody using commas inside CSV fields
Age: 4.0 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 4 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 210 days ago
Rated common mostly because: alive 209x longer than intended, €93k per year, 2 accidental connections.
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