Coding for Good: Achieving social change with an app
summary
An app is built in a week using a hacked WordPress front end, a from‑scratch PHP web API, MySQL and jQuery on £2.99 hosting; emails are queued and throttled by a simple console worker to avoid SMTP overload. It triggers 15,000 emails in two weeks after a celebrity share, helps defeat the “Dear Amendment” in the House of Lords and pushes same‑sex marriage to law in 2014. The lesson: deliver one thing well even on cheap hosting.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction and background
- 3:42Same-sex marriage campaign story
- 13:57Keys to success in activism apps
- 17:26Recipe for coding for good
- 21:56Lessons from failure and luck
- 24:44Tech's potential for social change
- 28:34Call to action and conclusion
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