June 2023 DemoNightLx recap
Beam Education, Slinger and Dropalo share their ideas in search of your feedback and support
Key insights
🎯 The goal of DemoNightLx is to get feedback from different perspectives, including tech and marketing, to ensure that startups build products that people want and need.
😔 The pandemic has had long-lasting effects on education, leading to teacher shortages and negatively impacting students' learning experiences.
🔄 The company aims to change the status quo of summative assessment by providing a more comprehensive understanding of students' knowledge and identifying their gaps and areas of excellence.
🌍 The company's focus on community and serving the teaching community is one of the three pillars of their company.
💰 The platform aims to offer a subscription model at an affordable price for teachers, recognizing that teachers often have to buy curriculum and software out of their own pockets.
📲 Social messaging applications have an even larger user base of 4.8 billion users, indicating the potential to target these users and their behaviors to create a relevant and useful product that can be accessed anytime and anywhere.
📱 The app allows businesses and individuals to have real-time communication and stream of messages and locations, potentially revolutionizing the way we connect and interact.
💪 Slinger's success is driven by its strong community, with over 500 businesses and 5000 workers on board, and an average shift being claimed within 30 seconds, all achieved without any marketing expenses.
The key idea of the video is that these three startups are showcasing their platforms and seeking investment to address various challenges in education, social messaging, and the hiring process.
📊 A consultancy is transitioning into a SAS-based business for competitor research, offering a design sprint prize, while three startups give demos to find the right investor and avoid building something unnecessary.
A consultancy is transitioning into a SAS-based business for competitor research and is offering a two-week design sprint as a prize for a competition.
Oliver and his team are working on wireframes and visuals for their SAS platform to support their competitor research business, and three startups are giving demos today.
The goal of the video is to receive feedback from different perspectives and find the right investor for the startup, with the aim of avoiding failure by building something people don't want or need.
💡 Mappix is a platform aiming to address teacher workload and student underperformance by digitizing daily assessments, providing real-time tracking and reducing paperwork.
Mappix is a formative assessment platform that aims to address the global problem of teacher workload and student underperformance in the UK by providing a user-friendly solution for collating and sharing important assessment scores.
The pandemic has had long-lasting effects, leading to teacher shortages and student suffering, while also making it difficult to measure teaching impact, but Mappix aims to address these issues by keeping great teachers in their positions and reducing paperwork.
We aim to revolutionize assessment by moving away from summative assessments, which only provide limited information about a student's performance, and instead focus on identifying knowledge gaps and areas of excellence to help students succeed.
Digitizing daily assessments with the platform mappix allows teachers to easily record observations, upload evidence, and track student progress in real time.
The speaker experienced technical difficulties with their screen during the presentation.
Teachers are quitting and students are suffering, so the speaker proposes a platform for digitizing daily assessments in schools, with a direct sales model to teachers and the hope of expanding into schools.
💡 The speaker demonstrates an iPad-based platform for analyzing students' reading progress, seeking investment and targeting teachers as users, with plans to market through social media and referrals.
The speaker demonstrates how they use an iPad to analyze their students' reading progress, allowing them to view predictions, trends, and generate parent-friendly reports throughout the year.
Looking for £550,000 investment in a growing market, the speaker presents their platform and progress, with a teacher and target user of the solution expressing interest and asking a question.
The company is bypassing the traditional school system and directly engaging with teachers to spread the news and encourage adoption of their validation system.
Offering an affordable subscription model for teachers, the platform aims to market through social media, emphasizing its simplicity and encouraging teachers to refer their schools to take over the purchase.
📚 The platform discussed in the video is GDPR compliant and requires parental approval for sensitive data, with plans to launch a B2C model in September, offering customizable software and potential uses for AI in education.
The platform being discussed in the video is compliant with GDPR and requires parental approval for data regarding children, as it contains sensitive information such as names and dates of birth, but the responsibility for data handling remains with the school and individual users.
We have strict terms and conditions for user expectations and currently have 30 users and 3500 data sets stored securely, but getting traction has been challenging due to outlined factors.
The speaker discusses the upcoming launch of a B2C model in September and expresses excitement about its potential, with a brief mention of a previous product called Bonfire.
The software has the flexibility to accommodate changes in curriculums and can be customized for different countries and languages.
Potential uses for AI in education include using AI to simplify reporting on student progress and using big data to identify common struggles in certain areas and provide resources to support students.
📱 Dropalo is a social messaging platform and digital billboard that aims to connect people in their immediate surroundings, allowing businesses and individuals to communicate and share messages and locations in real time through a drop feature on multiple platforms.
Tropical is a social messaging platform and digital billboard built on a map.
Google Maps has a large number of monthly views, but social messaging has even more users, so the goal is to target those users and their behaviors to create a relevant and useful product for people wherever they are.
The problem being addressed is the lack of communication and connection with people in our immediate surroundings due to paywalls and limitations of current social messaging platforms.
Businesses, including startups and established ones, spend a lot of money to attract customers and foot traffic, which is crucial for the success of high streets and regenerating towns and cities.
The app allows businesses and individuals to communicate and share messages and locations in real time through a drop feature available on iOS, Android, and web platforms.
The speaker experiences technical difficulties with their internet connection while trying to access the login screen channel.
📱 The app Dropalo.co.uk has login and access issues, especially for users outside the UK, but logged in users can access a map and tutorial on how to make drops and interact with the platform in real time, including creating public or private jobs with customizable lifespans.
The app Dropalot.co.uk is available for free in the United Kingdom, but there are issues with logging in and accessing the site.
The speaker experiences technical difficulties with their internet connection and Google token, causing issues with accessing the app, particularly for those outside the United Kingdom.
Logged in users can access a map on the app that shows their location and provides a tutorial on how to make drops and interact with the platform in real time.
You can use a repeater to create public or private jobs that expand over time, with the option to set the job's lifespan from 24 hours to a week or more depending on the content and audience.
🎙️ The speaker discusses their strategy for user acquisition, launching and refining their social messaging platform in the UK before expanding to the Middle East, and engaging specific customers through various marketing channels, while also addressing challenges in implementing ideas and managing internal politics.
The speaker ends the video abruptly and gives the first question to Matt about his thoughts on good products and his experience in London.
The speaker discusses the importance of getting enough users on a platform like this and mentions their multi-pronged strategy for approaching user acquisition.
The speaker discusses their strategy of launching and refining their social messaging platform in the UK before expanding to the Middle East, focusing on engaging with different communities and content creators to generate value for users and businesses.
The speaker discusses their strategic approach to engaging specific customers through various marketing channels, including television promotion, physical marketing in real spaces, and activating strategies on the ground.
The speaker discusses the challenges of implementing ideas in an application and finding out what people truly want, particularly in terms of efficiency and simplicity, using AI and digital billboards as examples.
The speaker discusses the challenges of engaging customers and managing internal politics, as well as their plans to make money through in-app purchases and advertising campaigns.
📱 Slinger app revolutionizes hiring process, connects workers and businesses instantly, with over 500 businesses and 5000 workers signed up, shifts claimed within 30 seconds, and over a million pounds paid out, recently received funding from Google, plans to hire account manager and salesperson, considers scaling to other countries and implementing AI.
Billy Houston, founder of Slinger, shares his experience transitioning from banking to the food industry, running an incubator program, and creating an app to connect food entrepreneurs, which was launched during lockdown.
The speaker discusses how their platform, Slinger, is revolutionizing the hiring process by connecting workers and businesses instantly, eliminating the need for CVs, and saving time and money for both sides, resulting in over 500 businesses and 5000 workers signing up, with shifts being claimed within 30 seconds and over a million pounds paid out to the community.
The speaker discusses their team, partnerships, and the need for funding to capture opportunities in the food and hospitality industry, with a goal of over a million workers on their platform by 2026, and announces that they have recently received funding from Google.
The speaker discusses the challenges of populating both sides of their marketplace and their plans to hire an account manager and salesperson to increase bookings, as well as their transition into the recruitment space where they can charge higher fees for placements.
Building data on workers to streamline the hiring process by skipping CVs and directly inviting candidates for trial shifts, while also considering the possibility of scaling the platform to other countries and implementing AI and machine learning in the future.
The speaker reflects positively on the demo pitches, particularly highlighting the potential impact of a concept addressing staffing issues in the hospitality trade, and encourages viewers to buy tickets for an upcoming event.
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