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App development program helps young people build new start-ups
Ninety-four young people participated in a one-month course organized by Apple’s Developer Academy with one goal in mind: creating fresh start-ups at international standards.
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The founders of the start-up Teman Netra present their online app during the Apple Developer Academy graduation at BSD City in Banten on Tuesday. Teman Netra seeks to help those with limited sight hear audio versions of books, restaurant menus and money, among other sources of written text, by scanning the items with a smartphone. (JP/Adrian Wail Akhlas)
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former bank employee, Marilyn Parhusip, and her five partners spent months developing an online application to better monitor household electricity usage and bills.
They were among the young people taking part in a 10-month course organized by technology giant Apple’s Developer Academy in Indonesia last year. After finishing the app, Marilyn and her partners graduated on Tuesday and are now waiting for a license to launch their product in the Appstore, an online app-purchasing platform operated by Apple.
“We are using a machine-learning system to monitor electricity usage in real time,” said Marilyn as she presented the Leastric platform at BSD City in Banten on Tuesday.
“People can save 35 percent of their electricity usage if they have real-time data and information on the most-used electrical appliances. Thus, they can reduce spending and their environmental footprint.”
Including Marilyn and her five partners, 194 young people participated in the course with one goal in mind: creating fresh start-ups at international standards.
Thirty-six start-ups were created during the second phase of the accelerator program, which was funded and facilitated by Apple and Binus University. The start-ups ranged from the Leastric platform to a platform named Teman Netra that aimed to help those with limited sight hear audio versions of books, restaurant menus and money, among other sources of written text, by scanning the items with a smartphone.
The program has paved the way for participants to develop other start-ups such as a platform named Qiroah to help Muslims better recite the Quran and a platform named Hearo to help translate sign language into speech.
