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A volunteer dev team spends 6 weeks building an automated registration web app to replace a community center’s pen and paper sign-in, delivering it free only to have staff decline and keep their paper. The concrete claim: building equals solving is false. The team used common web frameworks and a quick feature list but never validated adoption, underestimated staff mistrust of tech, and learned the product didn’t actually meet a felt need.
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