The endeavour was the brainchild of Lazer Technologies, a Toronto-based app developer that was among many in the Canadian tech sphere who were outraged to learn the federal government managed to spend $54 million on ArriveCan, a relatively simple border screening app.
And so, Lazer initiated a “hackathon” among its employees to see how quickly it would take to replicate the entire app from scratch.
Developer Daniel Whiffing accepted the challenge, and by dinner time on Thanksgiving Day he had created a working clone of ArriveCan that is near-indistinguishable from the original. Whiffing even posted the code online so fellow programmers can check his work.
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