Jake Essman a 14-Year-Old Self Taught Hacker is a New York native. A student at the United Nations School, teamed up with fellow engineers Jesse Leone, William Li, and Feliks Beygel to create “buyby”,a shopping search engine. BuyBy is fairly simple—you use the site to find where a product is located at a store. So you could search for a ‘Red t-shirt’ and the search engine will not only show you a list of online stores that have that product, But it will also show you stores that sell the product nearby your location by considering your physical location based on your IP address.
Essman, who has been coding since he was ten, says that he decided to come to the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon(held at New York on 22nd May 2011) at the urging of his Mom., Essman says that coding is a hobby, and this isn’t the first site he’s created. “RantingOutLoud” ,a forum where anyone can can complain about anything, is a also Jake Essman project. What’s more, he essentially taught himself how to code.
But for Essman, coding is still just a hobby and at this point, his career aspirations lie in the field of medicine as his goal is to become a doctor.
More information:
RantingOutLoud: http://rantingoutloud.com/index.php
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