Finlay Campbell and Thomas Summerfield are two young high-schoolers who think lemonade stalls are lame. Instead, they decided to go and launch their own streaming service, Defani One.
As ABC News reports, the two 14-year-olds created the website together, with Thomas handling the coding side of things and Finlay looking after the back-end logistics, like the servers.
Defani One is similar to other services like Spotify and SoundCloud, wherein users can upload their own original music for others to share, but the two believe their service stands apart.
“The difference is there is no advertising and it is a lot cheaper to sign up for a pro account,” Finlay told ABC News. Defani One launched earlier this month and soon reached over 100 users.
However, being 14 does make some things difficult, such as opening a bank account under their business name and like all good tech startups, Defani One started in their parents’ garage.
This living arrangement has unfortunately posed a few issues to the business. “Finlay’s dad made us turn the servers off in the garage because it was chewing up the power,” Thomas said.
“But he [Finlay] is going to prove that they don’t use that much power, so we have turned them all off and we are going to see what comes back in the next bill, and if it’s the same his dad has agreed to let us have them turned on all the time.”
