Carbonly 🌿

While another small milestone after having reacher 50 users not along ago, every step counts! While signups is important, Carbonly will now focus on better retention efforts as opposed to user acquisition efforts.

Want to learn more about Carbonly. Learn more here: https://www.carbonly.org

Today, we hit 50 users on Carbonly, which while a small amount of users, is a great step in the right direction to achieving a farther reach and completing our mission of effectively reducing each and every one of our carbon footprints! The goal now is to see how well we can keep up the momentum!

On July 9th, we were unexpectedly hunted on Product Hunt. Unfortunately, this did more harm than good as it took away all the planning we had made for our product launch. If there is a next time, we should launch at the earliest stage to avoid this happening.

Check out our Product Hunt Launch:
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/carbonly

Since having fixed most of the issues on the development-side, it's definitely time to focus on user-testing and product promotion and marketing, so this was a good step in the right direction and to hopefully push it as far as I can. From now on, I'm setting a new goal: every day I need to have more users and website visitors than the day before.

In an effort to expand our reach and get our users more active with the platform, we decided to launch the Carbonly blog to keep our users updated on the latest features and new paths for Carbonly going forward.

Check out the blog here: https://www.carbonly.org/blog

Before making our initial product launch, we thought it was most apt to create an 'upcoming' page as the platform was not yet ready for a major launch and I wanted to recruit early users to start building an audience.

Wanna Sign up?
https://www.producthunt.com/upcoming/carbonly

From our very first protoype in February, we've now achieved 20 integrations on our chrome extension from flight bookings ✈️ like Skycanner to online groceries 🌽 like S-Group's Foodie to food delivery 🍕 platforms like Uber Eats!

Although a major achievement 🏆, this is not to say we're stopping here 😄!

See it for Yourself 👀!
https://www.carbonly.org

Later that day when I made my first pitch, I was given direct entrance into their accelerator 🚤 program 'Fortum Forward'. From that point, I've been given a myriad of opportunities from connections at companies such as Puro and Compensate 💬 , CX workshops 🛠️ and a grant of €10,000 💵.

When finding accelerators 🚤 online to provide support in building this platform (especially since I started developing it as a lone founder 🚶), I came across Fortum 🌳 in one of Junction's ✖️ Medium posts. From this point, I applied, provided several works and progress to date and was invited to pitch 💬 to a number of Fortum employees 👥.

Along with my brother, Nicolas, I created the very first prototype 👨‍💻️ of this concept at JunctionX Exeter ✖️ where we earned 1st Prize and a £1000 grant 💵 to develop this further 😝!

At this point, Carbonly was a very minimal product ⚪with one compatibility (Tesco 🌽) and limited smart feedback 🙁.