Canada spent $54 million on ArriveCAN, an app that collects customs information. The same thing could be built with Google Forms for free, Typeform for a few dollars, or freelance developers for a few thousand. A case study in bloated government spending.
The government of Canada got hustled out of $54 million paying for their ArriveCAN app. So the ArriveCAN app is just a simple mobile app that's for customs when you travel into the country in Canada. I had to fill it out with like code information last year when I went there for work. But to be clear, it's literally just stuff like this, like a checkbox and a write in your name thing. $54 million is an obscene amount of money for a mobile app, especially when the functionality of the app is literally just a form. I can make one for free on Google Form or pay a couple bucks and make one on Typeform. Like, I could go on Upwork and vet a development team and get it done probably in the US for like $10,000 and overseas for like $2,000. The exact same app. But whatever, this is somewhat normal for government contracts. They're normally huge and bloated, but there's a major lesson. If you're a service provider, you're an agency, you should be going upmarket. Sell to people with more money that want to pay more money. And if you made it this far, give this a like and give me a follow. I talk about marketing and business, and we'll break down all the obscene, ridiculous contracts like this.
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