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" I'm only 17 years old, I don't need 8 million. I don't want to be taken advantage of ." This phrase perfectly sums up the character of Avi Schiffmann. A 17-year-old man who has revolutionized the Internet with one of the most visited Covid-19 Pandemic monitoring websites in the world.
Its website ncov2019.live, has more than 30 million visits every day and accumulates more than 700 million unique users since the pandemic exploded.
In exchange, the Avi website offers real-time data on the evolution of Covid-19 in all countries of the world, basic tips to prevent infections and a calculator that shows the survival index index that people infected would have a function of their age and previous pathologies.
Audiences of this size would be considered a feat in itself for any great website. However, the achievement is even greater if you consider that it is a project that this young man develops alone and that he has only had the collaboration of another person, Daniel Conlon, who has been in charge of lending him a hand with the design.
Avi's successful project comes out of his bedroom computer . The same one in which he played video games online with his friends and who is now permanently attached to make sure that everything works well on his website.
As he confesses in an interview with Business Insider, the young man has dedicated a huge job to this website. On one occasion, he confesses, he was working for 50 straight hours to clean up various code bugs present on the page.
The demand for a real-time update means that Avi has to dedicate all his time to keep his website running smoothly. On some occasions, he is even forced to stay awake until 7 in the morning looking to fix errors.
Still a minor and, as he himself confesses, not especially brilliant in the academic field, the young man has been forced to abandon his online classes for several weeks because the web requires an effort in body and soul. " It has eaten my life, " he confesses. Although he maintains that he is willing to "put up with the pressure with pleasure."
An effort that has raised the interest of large technology companies, investors and entrepreneurs from different parts of the world that have come to offer up to 8 million dollars for buying the web from Tocateja .
Likewise, other estimates indicate that the young man could have earned close to 30 million dollars if he had placed advertising on his website . However, as he has stated on different occasions, he is reticent. The only source of income is through Ko-Fi, a platform that allows prop micro donations of 3 euros.
"Thank you all for supporting me and helping to keep the website ad-free forever. There will never be sponsors, pop-ups, referral links or ads of any kind. You have my promise on that and I thank each and every one of you for your donations. on Kofi and your support. The objective of this website has always been to disclose information about the current pandemic and not to make money . There will be many opportunities for that in the future. I appreciate the connections and contacts that you have brought me. It is much more valuable than money, "says the young man in a Twitter thread.
Altruistic and humble, the young man is proud of his work but acknowledges that he has been under great pressure. "In the future, I hope the pressure is on the World Health Organization, " he says, noting that the WHO should be in charge of doing this work.
" The responsibility should not lie with any boy, but it is obvious that people want to know the statistics."
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