
A Weekend Build: What a Whisky Festival App Taught Me About Scope
One hundred and fifty-six whiskies, forty stands and one evening. Building a companion app for a festival showed me where small project budgets actually go.
Dru Connold 0 min read
Malva Dev Blog
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One hundred and fifty-six whiskies, forty stands and one evening. Building a companion app for a festival showed me where small project budgets actually go.

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