Andrew Sampson

Andrew Lee Sampson (born April 19, 1995) is an American software engineer, Open Source contributor and IT entrepreneur from Atlanta, Georgia. He is the founder of CodeHere, an open source coding and training program launched in 2014 and co-founder of Aurous, an online music streaming service. Prior to founding CodeHere, Sampson was best known as the creator of Netflix Routlette, a tool designed to help streamline Netflix viewing and selection, as well as Borderless Gaming, an app which allowed users to enjoy windowed video games more effectively on their computers.
Life and career
Sampson grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, and started programming at an early age.
After experiencing success with the launch of his app “Netflix Roulette,” his follow up project “Borderless Gaming” enjoyed a very welcome reception by the gaming communities on Steam and Reddit. Following these as well as a series of collaborations and contributions to Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) projects, Sampson sought to help open the doors to coding and software engineering to others.
In 2014, with the help of friends and colleagues, Sampson created “CodeHere”, a free and open source coding and programming training platform, designed to help users of all levels learn and refine their coding skills. After raising the necessary start-up capital through Kickstarter, Sampson celebrated the launch of CodeHere by following through on his “Ghost Pepper Challenge” fundraising promise and livestreaming his coding of the project.
Presently, Sampson continues to expand his portfolio, working not only Endnight Games ltd, but also with the launch of his newest collaboration and creation, Aurous.
Projects and Collaborations
• Netflix Roulette (Creator)
Netflix Roulette is an app created to help users select a Netflix title to watch without needing to browse indecisively. By selecting a genre of films, Netflix Roulette selects a title for the user with just a 'spin', presenting it to the user at random. Netflix Roulette is available for Windows and iPhone.
• Borderless Gaming (Creator)
Borderless Gaming is a program which allows users to play their windowed games at full screen, while also allowing access to other windows and programs, all through a central control hub. Designed to allow for an artificial full screening of games played in smaller windows, Borderless Gaming has been designed to both allow players to enjoy a more immersive full screen experience, while also seeking to address issues which may arise should users be multi-tasking with other open windows, such as “alt-tab” functionality problems. Available through the Steam Store, Borderless Gaming has received a “Very Positive” overall user response, with 127 reviews as of September, 2015.
• The Forest (Collaborator)
The Forest is a first person shooter (FPS) style action/adventure video game, developed Endnight Games LTD. Developed on the Unity platform, The Forest is an open-world survival game where following a plane crash in the depths of an expansive wilderness, the player is forced to live off the land, while defending themselves from wildlife, strange and savage natives and the elements themselves.
• Strike (Collaborator)
Strike is a Torrent search engine, designed to streamline torrent searches and improve search results, all while removing ads. A peer-to-peer (P2P) tool, Strike operates using both a public torrent tracker index as well as a Distributed Hash Table (DHT) scraping mechanism. Hailed by TorrentFreak.com as “one of the cleanest, most tidy sites around,” Strike and Sampson came under fire from the MPAA in early 2015 for claims that the site violated intellectual property rights.
• CodeHERE (Creator)
CodeHere is a free, open source, user oriented training program, designed to help individuals of all skill levels learn and refine coding and programming techniques. An independent project of Sampson’s, it succeeded in raising the necessary start-up capital on Indiegogo in December 2014, drawing strong interest both by virtue of its goals as a non-profit aimed at making coding more accessible to the general public, as well as Sampson’s own “ghost pepper challenge,” wherein he promised if the project made or exceeded its goal, he would live-stream the coding for the site while eating raw ghost peppers. In 2015, Sampson stepped down as CEO of CodeHERE to refocus on Aurous.
• Aurous (Co-creator)
Aurous was an online music streaming service, similar to Spotify or Pandora, which was shut down in December 2015 after facing a copyright infringment lawsuit from the RIAA.
MPAA Scandal
The issue resulted from Sampson’s initial decision to place a PayPal button on the website in lieu of any ethical code. The MPAA has taken legal action against Sampson despite his denial of any wrongdoing.

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