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Re:The Shadow Inc. app that failed in Iowa last night by esrauch on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @09:38AM (#22246978)
There's no way 60k can pay for multiple people for a few months: your 60k median excludes overheads, insurance, etc.

To be honest, I'm not sure if that a few people for a few months is even enough to avoid something like this from happening: this is crazy stress launch in gymnasiums with very high device variety. It probably demands a couple months just of serious dedicated QA and dry runs if you really wanted to avoid this outcome.

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Re:The Shadow Inc. app that failed in Iowa last night by runawaybottle on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @09:36PM (#22252993)
They hired a lot of fresh devs from bootcamps if you checked the company page on LinkedIn. I would not be shocked if they really were that cheap.
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Re:The Shadow Inc. app that failed in Iowa last night by esrauch on Saturday February 08, 2020 @09:17PM (#22279971)
Sure, the point isn't that it isn't possible to have an app created for that price, the point is that at that price you can only create an app that leaves a solid risk of exactly what happened.
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