Preppally
Affordable Career Guidance eLearning Platform & Career AI
Hi all
Looking for feedback on my bootstrapped start-up: https://preppally.com
I am mostly interested in feedback on:
• Concept
• Website design
• Different free AI tools available
• Why you think people might (not) convert
Preppally is today one year old and I have completely bootstrapped the platform in my spare time while combining with a full-time job. Over the course of the year I have grown the number of users to 1,000+ and only now I am getting more and more traction.
Website contains tons of free resources ! Feel free to use them and thank you so much!
Today I have sent out Preppally’s weekly newsletter to >1,000 people. A month ago it barely reached 200 users. Here is what changed 👇 :
Social media covers a lot of success stories.
The reality about success stories is that they are similar to Rome: both weren’t built in a day.
For the past 18 weeks, I have been posting on LinkedIn every Tuesday and sending a newsletter to all Preppally users.
That’s what you see (and potentially don’t want to see), but what’s not visible is that:
• Every weekly article, newsletter and post takes at least 2 hours to create
• Every post (including this one) comes with a lot of anxiety around public reaction
• Most Sundays, I am locked inside while others are enjoying life or watching Netflix (and people love to call it out...)
This while growth is barely visible and interaction is often below expectations. Spending 2 hours for a 10% click rate and 20 readers simply s*cks.
It’s been a year since I put Preppally live and only in the last month I found how to get traction:
• Publishing articles on big new outlets their websites
• Providing free resources and artificial intelligence tools leading to traffic and registrations
• Improving consistently Search Engine Optimizations with the blog articles (and these posts - sorry, not sorry)
• Getting more reviews on Google Maps and Trustpilot by connecting with all customers
All of this has grown the registrations on Preppally above 1,000 users in the past months with more than 50 new users joining on a daily basis over the course of the past 10 days.
Today I am sending my newsletter to >1,000 people providing them with free career guidance and explaining which questions they should ask at the end of interviews.
A 10% click rate will lead to >100 readers.
It might not be Rome yet - but it’s at least under construction.
👉 Make sure to support others in your network who are trying to build their own Rome.
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Career Guidance should be available for everyone for affordable prices. Preppally helps young professionals land their dream job at top companies via (paid) e-learning, community, AI tools, learning paths & free tips
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Hi Jeroen @Preppally , I'm looking for founders to do cross-feedback on each other products. You help us, we help you. What do you think?
I would be interested!
Awesome! All the feedback take place on my website Userdome . You can create account and let me know and I’ll add credits to your account so you can publish your product to receive a feedback. :)
Signed up using my real name - where do you want me to leave you feedback?
Great. I added points to your account so you can publish your product now. You can leave a feedback to all products. It's cross-feedback so the more feedback you provide, the more feedback you receive.
Just launched my product - it was a bit of a struggle (just FYI), mainly because the textarea for description doesn't scale, resulting in the inability to see any other fields (below). I had to remove the elements through dev tools in order to continue. Also couldn't see the size of the banner after upload so now my banner kinda looks meih.
Is it possible to edit this info?
The concept is great though - you will get there!
Thank you Jeroen! I removed the problems and it should work now correctly. Yes, you can edit your product. Go to your profile -> products -> and below your image maker you can see "edit button" -> click and you can modify your product info.
Figured out how to change the info Y'day! Thanks man - it looks good and great you found some fixes