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Is this really that surprising? It doesn't seem that complicated a project. Big companies surely don't have a team for every little project.

Wasn't the Facebook app written by one guy. Also TweetDeck was originally by one guy. Wasn't Reddit built by 4 people and Posterous basically by 2 or 3 people? And all for those apps the same people did all the business and marketing too.




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