What's Possible vs What We Get​

Early in my career, I helped a friend install Wordpress right after his company spent $300,000 on a failed software project to build a "content library". This Wordpress instance became their content library and I got a $10,000 contract to build a prototype of a collaborative voting system. I had to call it a prototype because the owners didn't believe a single developer could build real software in a few weeks. They used it until their acquisition 9 years later.