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date: 2026-01-30
link: https://mahadk.com/posts/ai-skills-hub
title: The UK paid £4.1 million for a bookmarks site
cited: Mahad Kalam

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That's procurement for you. 

> I'm also angry that the small webdev businesses we have here in the UK were left out of this - for less than 5% of the cost, we'd have a _better_ website and help out small businesses who actually care about their work, instead of handing the project to a multinational company that made nearly $60 billion in revenue in a year and has zero qualms about ripping off the British taxpayer.

> Do better.