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I will be honest to admit, before I read this article, I didn't even know charging $32 million was possible for a website.

• emiliobumachar 8y ago
  Brace for impact. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-09-24/obamacare-website-costs-exceed-2-billion-study-finds https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-09-24/obamacare... "The federal government’s Obamacare enrollment system has cost about $2.1 billion so far, according to a Bloomberg Government analysis of contracts related to the project."
  • nitwit005 8y ago
    That had senators intentionally shoving bits of the system into their state. They wanted more money flowing to the state, so larger numbers were a plus from their perspective. They got to blame any failure on Obama, so why not I guess.
• ownagefool 8y ago
  Super possible, but it's based on smoke and mirrors "scaled agile" and building stuff you don't really need. Only really the big guys get away with it though.
• danieltillett 8y ago
  Bill more next time.
• sct202 8y ago
  And some how that massive number didn't even include training costs, because the website never went live!
• rustyf 8y ago
  Depends what website means - could be one html page or amazon.com level. It’s still a load of cash, mind
• ilaksh 8y ago
  The thing is it's not just a website. Calling it that just made a better headline. The website was a big part of it, but it was a lot more than that. The actual scope is roughly outlined in the article.
• gumballhead 8y ago
  I worked at a startup that operated for over five years with a similar amount of funding. We had a web app, webpage, native mobile apps on both platforms, marketing, customer service, sales, and our own office that was pretty dope. We had something like 75 employees at the peak. I can't believe it either.