Her name is Avi Schiffmann and she is only 17 years old but also the creator of the most visited site in the world at the time of the Coronavirus. Over 30 million users connect to '' nCoV2019.live '' every day and in a few days the portal reached everyone's mouth. A portal created ad hoc by the young developer in these times of Coronavirus and health emergency since on the portal it is possible to track the numbers related to the cases of the disease. In no time become one of the most viewed sites in the world so much that it has created an important purchase "hype" for many companies in the sector with offers that have reached the beauty of 8 million dollars for the purchase of the platform he created.
$ 8 million offer declined: "I didn't want to take advantage of it"
Avi Schiffmann is only 17 years old but also a great passion for coding and for the development of digital. He learned it by watching tutorials on YouTube but in fact managed in a short time to put up a tracking site of the COVID-19 that to date works with over 30 million views per day. A work that Avi who has been working on this project since the Pandemic started and who has at the moment does not stop even if the young man's hope is to block everything thanks to the end of the transmission of COVID-19. nCoV2019.live it is continuously updated with the official statistics of most of the countries of the world on the number of infections, deaths, hospitalizations and contagion curves. Behind the scenes an important job that often knows no timetables. In addition to the map and statistics, Avi also added to the site a function that, thanks to parameters such as age and gender, provides the statistical percentage of survival of the infection.
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Since the online launch, 700 million unique users have passed through the Avi website. A real success that perhaps not even the young developer would have thought of achieving when he decided to develop it. Yet the success has come. A success so important and such as to create them purchase offers by major companies that have even evaluated the whole thing with a value of over 8 million dollars.
Microsoft not only did he think of buying the platform but he even offered young Avi a job in the company to which for the same seventeen year old he said no. Not even to millionaire advertising offers that have come to him. Avi has declared that he is not a speculator "I don't want to take advantage of it. Actually I have other plans for my future". The little money he can collect with the donations he has activated on the site is enough for him, but above all the satisfaction of having created a platform followed by over 30 million users a day seems to be more important.
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"I hope that in the future tools like this are created directly by the World Health Organization. The responsibility for creating these 'tools' should not be in the hands of a random boy, but of the people who work for statistics" these are the words of a seventeen year old who seems to be older than he actually shows. "The last thing I want to do to write code again after a day spent writing code. Now I know a lot of investors, if I started a company tomorrow at least they would read my business plan."
