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App #780 Β· πΊπΈ the United States
Disaster score 181Common
An intern built a timesheet app because the other timesheet app sucks
π Direct production access
Users1
Departments0
Criticality3%
Money involvedβ¬11,512/yr
βThe customer already saw the demo.ββ Katrin, An intern
- Reason:
- Honestly? Because the integration works unless it is Thursday. With 3 tests, all skipped.
- Built by:
- Katrin, a warehouse supervisor
- Build time:
- a long Thursday
- Built with:
- an AI agent with shell access
- Database:
- booleans stored as "yes", "no", "Y", "N" and occasionally "maybe"
- Authentication:
- Tobias knows the password
- Deployment:
- running behind nginx config copied from Stack Overflow
- Responsible:
- Olivier, because they clicked "create project" first
- Documentation:
- a Notion page titled "New docs"
- Security situation:
- the vulnerability scanner is blocked by the firewall
- Future disaster:
- It will duplicate every record after a timezone change.
Accidentally connected to (1)
- β calls an internal API using the global admin token
Age: 4.4 years Β· originally expected to last 4 weeks Β· 2 owners so far Β· survived 3 reorganisations Β· last meaningful change 74 days ago
Rated common mostly because: direct production access, alive 54x longer than intended, 1 accidental connections.
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An intern built a timesheet app because the other timesheet app sucks