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		joelgrus on May 28, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bring Reading Rainbow Back I've read the Kickstarter page twice, and I still can't figure out what they are going to spend the $1M on (or how they arrived at that number). I know it doesn't cost $1M to build a website.

bskap on May 28, 2014 | | [–]

From the video, it seems like a lot of it is going into paying licensing costs so they can give it to schools for free.

zenciadam on May 28, 2014 | [–]

How much does a CDN to reach 70% of grade school children cost? There's a lot more involved than just installing Apache on a vps.

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