We’ve just been awarded the runner-up prize of £80,000 by Nesta and the Department of Education in the CareerTech challenge! Emma and I are thrilled and honoured to receive this prize. In the spirit of transparency, I’m sharing our final prize submission video and full application in this blog post…

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The last four months have been a period of intense product building. Would You Rather Be is now 10 times better than it was back in October! The coolest feature we built is Pathways, which are hyper-personalised to-do lists into your careers of interest, with time, cost and funding information. We also built a skills matching feature, a marketplace of curated, relevant third-party services and more! As always, I’ve packed in all the details into this blog post…

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We ran 15 product experiments in 6 weeks. That’s one every 2 days! It’s been quite the rollercoaster – full of ups and downs. Most of our experiments failed, but some succeeded and all of them taught us a tremendous amount. We also made our first revenues, and landed on a new strategic direction. So if you’re curious about why startups are so hard, and want the nitty gritty insights into what life is really like trying to figure this stuff out, dive right in! …

My core focus over the past 10 weeks has been on product discovery. We’ve talked to 50+ users and customers to understand their motivations, behaviours and pain points. We’ve then synthesised our learnings to figure out what products and features we should build next. Plus we’ve just hired our first employee, who starts on Monday! It’s been a busy 10 weeks! …

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I recently raised £550,000 for my startup, Would You Rather Be! In this blog post, I’ll share my journey on this project since my last update in October. This involves a bunch of failed experiments in trying to make money, raising £550k, the impact of Coronavirus, developing version 2, building the foundations of the business and where I plan to go next …

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Over the past 8 months, I’ve been working with a startup called Soultime to help set them up for scalable and sustainable impact. Soultime is an app that helps people with their spiritual and emotional health. It’s a bit like Calm, but for Christians. In this blog post I share what I did to help the team build a better picture of how people use their app, directed their product and engineering efforts, created a synthetic reading of the bible using AI and levelled up their marketing and tracking to enable them to scale.

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The malaria challenge chatbot is finally live. Try it out! …

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Over the past 5 months I’ve been working on a web app to help people find a satisfying career – it’s called “Would You Rather Be”. The app asks you to choose which of two careers you would prefer to do. After 100 of these questions, the app shows the top qualities you look for in a career and the top careers that match those qualities. This blog post talks through why I chose this project, what I’ve built, what I’ve learnt so far and where I plan to take it next.

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My main focus the last few months has been building a web app for use by teachers and students in a classroom. It uses a method called comparative judgement. Each student takes a photo of their work and they then see pairs of work from other students and have to decide which is best. After 20 minutes, a class of 30 would have hundreds of judgements and the app puts them in order of the number of votes. This saves teachers time in marking and helps students learn. We now have almost 200 teachers on board!

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