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Discussion on: Hands-on with the app that broke the Iowa caucus

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Matt Eland

I would not want to be the dev who built the application right now. In fact, you may even want to consider blacking out his name in that path screenshot.

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Ari Kalfus • Edited

Yeah - to be clear, this was a senior dev with no mobile experience and two recent bootcamp grads just trying to do well at their first job with no time or money to get it done. It was something like $60k spread across the three of them over a 2-month contract. I think they did the best they could in their circumstance. That 60k was what Iowa paid, so you can imagine Shadow did not pass it all to the 3 devs.

Edit: my recollection was a bit off on the numbers. This is a great thread on this topic - twitter.com/CoreyAdler/status/1225...

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Jeremy Morgan

Good point. Done. I don't really blame the developer for this. Inquiry before advocacy. We have no idea what kind of pressures were exerted or what else was going on at the time. Could be lots of factors at play here.