[mnehring]

LOL, I’m with the author on his assessment if I were to build it, a good 6 hours development time max X $100-$125/hour. Add in some follow up time for testing and support... For $200K, they should have gotten a whole suite of apps that do more than provide data that can be pulled from a RSS feed.

[Swordmaker]

LOL, I’m with the author on his assessment if I were to build it, a good 6 hours development time max X $100-$125/hour. Add in some follow up time for testing and support... For $200K, they should have gotten a whole suite of apps that do more than provide data that can be pulled from a RSS feed.

Me three... this is a $200,000 do nothing App. What frosts me even more is it is a UK business that got the geld and not a US business. What happened to buy American, even if it is an American company ripping us off?

[rpierce]

The source code is available here now: Heat Safety Tool.

Wouldn't even compile out of the box (needed some fixing). Bleah.

FYI, the source code is copyrighted with this:

// Created by mkeefe on 8/4/11.
// Copyright 2011 PixelBit Inc. All rights reserved.

Leaving the copyright notice (autogenerated by the xcode development tool) as-is was probably an oversight by the initial developer but should have been caught by someone up the food chain.

An additional sad part is that Matthew Keefe (mkeefe.com) probably only made a few thousand bucks for his work. The rest of the cost was bloat upon bloat.

As a taxpayer and developer, this is doubly offensive. Sigh.