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"The app we built is a simple tool that allows you to post to multiple Twitter accounts."

So, the real title of this article should have been "How to waste $10,000 on a pointless web app."



Yeah, I agree. I could hack this together in 15 minutes with Net::Twitter and Continuity, with maybe 30 minutes more to make the CSS look nice.

Total cost? $250.

(Oh, and $400/month hosting for an app nobody uses? I would just use my $20/month Slicehost until that stopped being possible.)


The difference between you and them - you say "I could" but they actually did it.


On this note I don't have any doubt in my mind that Mr. Rockway could do it.


>I could hack this together in 15 minutes

>Total cost? $250.

Do you really charge 1000$ per hour? What do you do?


No, I round up to the nearest hour, though.

I don't do a lot of consulting, but that's the going rate when I do.




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