This got me thinking about the $200,000 "shitty" Android app the government supposedly commissioned. With some slight rephrasing:

>> Next time you see a business build a "cheap & shitty app" and making loads of money - try to see what business is backing it up, and what problem it is solving instead of how bad or good it is technically.

Original article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3266455

A lot of folks were hung up on the fact that they can build it in 6 hours. But can they also test it in 6 hours? Write the requirements for it in 6 hours? Navigate the bureaucracy to get the project approved in 6 hours? That's why gun.io doesn't have government business -- they can't do the business side.