Duncan Bell is cynical, sadly

Working as a hack in the tech field can often feel a bit like being on Dragon’s Den, the TV show where desperate people present gizmos to agonisingly joyless venture capitalists.

That’s especially true since the birth of crowd-funding. People come to me with these things they’ve spent years obsessing over, spending sleepless nights and all their savings, to try to bring to market. And I say, “Meh.”

I still recall with a slight shudder one occasion