Daily Jolt founder Winer '01 aims at national reform

Gupta told Winer about an idea for a one-stop website where Amherst students could go to find information relevant to their daily lives. They named their initial template for the site “Amherst Central.” “There had been some good things within the [external] Amherst website, but they were very hard to find. We connected useful features in one page: weather, the Valentine menu, links to things that were going on,” Winer explained. Once the site launched that fall, the response on campus was over