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App #938 ยท ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ Australia
Disaster score 123Common

CEO Office built Excel, but in React

Users34
Departments0
Criticality6%
Money involvedunknown
โ€œIt's basically a spreadsheet with buttons.โ€โ€” Bastian, CEO Office
Reason:
Because someone said "can't ChatGPT do this?". Started as Customers_FIXED.xlsx with a script attached.
Built by:
Bastian, an intern
Build time:
2 hours 24 minutes
Built with:
Vue, for personal reasons
Database:
UUIDs stored as VARCHAR(255), just in case
Authentication:
the admin route is called /admin-new-final
Deployment:
deployed from a branch called demo
Responsible:
the person sitting closest to the printer
Documentation:
a Slack thread from June
Security situation:
it has an admin panel, unlinked, unprotected
Future disaster:
It will overwrite the official data with yesterday's export.

Accidentally connected to (1)

  • โ†’ depends on Stock_list_v2.xlsx having exactly 26 columns

Age: 95 days ยท originally expected to last 7 days ยท 1 owner so far ยท survived 1 reorganisation ยท last meaningful change 95 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 34 users, alive 14x longer than intended, 1 accidental connections.

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