Heather Cook

Networking events and LinkedIn for the basics. But for real connections, tapping into personal networks and asking for referrals works like a charm.

Many opt for tools like Mailchimp or SendGrid based on their features and pricing.

Starting with TikTok ads? Focus on understanding your target audience, creating engaging content, and utilizing TikTok's ad manager.

In my previous web scraping projects, I've dabbled in extracting data from e-commerce sites, news portals, and social media platforms using tools like Beautiful Soup, Selenium, and Scrapy, which have greatly streamlined the process by providing flexibility in navigating through dynamic content, parsing HTML, handling JavaScript-driven pages, and managing multi-threaded scraping.

I'd recommend focusing on user engagement, utilizing social media and community platforms for marketing, collaborating with language educators to ensure content quality, seeking feedback from users to make necessary improvements, and considering partnerships with educational institutions to make a successful launch of kansei.app.

many companies, such as Duolingo with its AI-powered language learning programs, Rosetta Stone integrating machine learning for personalized learning experiences, and startups like Elsa, which uses AI to help improve English pronunciation, are actively working on developing AI-based language learning platforms.

I outsourced the development of my MVP to a trusted agency, didn't find a technical co-founder until after launch, leveraged my network and industry events to find a co-founder who resonated with my vision, and would advise other non-technical people with a software idea to conduct thorough market research, validate their idea, hire or partner with a reliable developer or development agency,...