"I too have just had to quell an X-factor mutiny, even though my mate Graziella has made it through to the bootcamp stage," says Will Davies.
The format change on the Simon Cowell show meant some contestants who thought they had made it through to the "bootcamp" stage were ditched at the last minute in the shows broadcast live from Wembley Arena over the weekend.
Successful applicants made it through to a semi-final, bootcamp and then a final pitch, where 10 entrepreneurs gave a presentation to a panel of judges.
There are a lot of folks in the industry who manage engineers and don't want to code themselves, but the type of hands-on people we're looking for are willing and able to go through Bootcamp.
As Cole and Minogue were absent, producers of the show decided to axe bootcamp's live audience.
Startups they nominate and which show sufficient traction through the bootcamp will be fast-tracked to additional funding of up to $600,000.
McGarry and his co-founder went through a developer bootcamp and, prior to this acquisition, had raised $400,000 for the company in seed financing.
More than half-way through the bootcamp, another student - who also happened to be a mediator - said to me, "Well, there's really nothing in this for us, is there".
And in terms of the value, judging by the responses from the community on Hacker News, there were more than a few who said that, of those they knew who had both studied independently and gone through Dev Bootcamp, the latter was "way more productive," according to HN user shawndrost.
