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Ep. 8 - From Student Project to Big App (William Jeffries)

CodeNewbie

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Tech News, Technology

4.7618 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2014

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

William Jeffries, creater of the Heat Seak app, tells us how the technology works, how he built the app as he was learning to code himself, and about the mindset that helped him get through the doubts many newbies face.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:01.6

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0:43.8

I'm your host, Saron, and before we kick off the show, I want to tell you about our incredible sponsors.

0:49.1

I'm your host, Sauron, and today's guest is developer and founder of HeatSique, William Jeffries. William, you want to say hi?

0:55.9

Hello, hello. So what is Heat Seek? Heat Seek is a project that we came up with to try and help keep the heat on in the winter in New York City.

1:08.0

So for those of you who don't live in New York City or who aren't familiar

1:12.8

with the way the buildings work here, we have a lot of really old buildings. And the way

1:20.3

that people pay for heat is that because they don't, the buildings aren't modern enough

1:25.1

to have a thermostat in every apartment or in every room like you might get in a more modern building

1:29.4

You just pay your rent and then your landlord is responsible for heating the entire building and they do that through a central boiler and

1:38.0

You know it can be difficult sometimes to make sure that every apartment in the building is properly heated

1:45.3

and what you find is that because it's already sort of a tricky system,

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