Toronto tech companies trolled the government by recreating ArriveCAN for next to nothing

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App makers Lazer Technologies and TribalScale, both based in Toronto, each independently created their own versions of the ArriveCAN app over the weekend through a"hackathon."

Apparently, a single staff member from the former company was able to craft a clone of the app in just three days. A team from the latter company completed theirs in two. "Having built over 100 different apps for some of the most exciting companies in the world, it was shocking for us to see the total amount of capital that was spent to design, create, launch and maintain the ArriveCAN app," Lazer Tech co-founder Zain Manji wrote in an ArriveCAN case study"Proving that this app could be built in a weekend is a good way to focus attention on the problem, but hopefully it opens up the discussion as to why Canada doesn’t have the best structure,...

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