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The reports I've seen have the app budget as $60-70k, which seems super low budget for how important it was. If this is cronyism (and not just low bidding), the

• honkycat 7y ago
  I saw the same thing and I had the same thought: Wow that is low. My suspicion: The company is all designers and product managers, and they shipped it overseas to the lowest bidder. That is unconfirmed, though.
• Ataraxy 7y ago
  It's funny because I'd bet most of the people that know how to program around here could write a similar app (and likely a betterone at that) in a matter of hours if they were so inclined.
  • russfink 7y ago
    The difference being that you didn't win the contract.
    • Ataraxy 7y ago
      That's pretty immaterial. I was just pointing towards the fact that the simplistic nature of the application in the first place only serves to further highlight the incompetence required for such a catastrophic failure.
      • russfink 7y ago
        Got it. My comment was saying, wryly, the amount of thought you put in just now was probably the maximal level of project design and thinking they did.