Julian Ambrozy was fed up with it. Fed up of hanging in the queue for hours on the vaccination hotline or searching in vain for a vacant vaccination appointment for your grandfather on the website.
So the 17-year-old student helped himself and created a program that notifies him as soon as an appointment was available at a vaccination center in the region. “It took about 30 hours to program,” says Ambrozy. Success was not long in coming. The grandpa got an appointment and is vaccinated for the first time.
Website should also help others
Because the program had helped his grandfather, the young person from Ostfildern came up with the idea of creating a website for the program that would help other people to get a vaccination appointment in their area more easily. Initially, the site was limited to the Stuttgart region, but the site grew with demand.
Under Impfterminbersicht.de appointments can now be found in Baden-Wrttemberg, Saxony-Anhalt, Hamburg and Brandenburg. The homepage is linked to the website for vaccination appointments. So that the site does not lead to vaccination tourism, you can now even specify a preferred vaccination center. If an appointment is available there, you will be informed by email. In the meantime, more than 2.7 million people have visited the site, and according to Ambrozy’s information, over 450,000 have received a vaccination appointment.
The demand is growing steadily
Even Julian Ambrozy was surprised. He says: “At first I thought there might be 200 people a day. Now there are more every day. ”There were 35,000 visitors on the day of the conversation. On that day, around 40,000 appointments could be arranged on the site.
However, the fact that so many people looking for vaccination appointments visit his site poses a challenge. Because the more people use the site, the greater the amount of data. That takes up space and costs money. That is why he is always happy when people who have received a vaccination appointment using the website donate some money to him. “I keep getting positive feedback. That makes me proud, ”says the 17-year-old.
