This post on TechCrunch shows how a team of nine developed a small web 2.0 app in 4 days – author Ryan Carson points out this is a week’s worth of salary. Hosting and other costs are negligible.
This application of RAD is quite cool, and also serves as a good example of a high-performance team producing results that are greater than the sum of its constituent parts – could a single person spend 36 days to achieve the same results?