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App #1032 Β· πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ the United States
Disaster score 274Common

The Person Who Knows Power Automate built a lunch order aggregator

☠️ No known owner🧟 Builder has left
Users1
Departments0
Criticality9%
Money involved€0/yr
β€œThere's already a Jira ticket.”— Ravi, The Person Who Knows Power Automate
Reason:
Officially because the CEO asked for it in a corridor on a Thursday. Forked from a tutorial at 17:05 and never cleaned up.
Built by:
Ravi, a field technician
Build time:
a long Thursday
Built with:
an internal API copied from a Stack Overflow answer
Database:
an FTP server containing folders called NEW, NEW2 and FINAL
Authentication:
the session cookie expires in 10 years
Deployment:
running from an image tagged latest
Responsible:
a shared mailbox nobody reads
Documentation:
a PowerPoint with 53 slides
Security situation:
the API key has never been rotated
Future disaster:
It will cause Legal to ask "who approved this?".

Accidentally connected to (3)

  • β†’ scrapes another internal app
  • β†’ depends on a vendor account nobody can log into
  • β†’ depends on a folder called Final

Age: 4.5 years Β· originally expected to last 7 days Β· 3 owners so far Β· survived 2 reorganisations Β· last meaningful change 210 days ago Β· original builder left 156 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 3 accidental connections, alive 233x longer than intended, nobody owns it.

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The Person Who Knows Power Automate built a lunch order aggregator