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#Buildinpublic October
Can you believe it’s our 10th #buildinpublic newsletter? Neither can we 😱. October flew by as we welcomed our first paying clients, redesigned our...
Welcome to the 13th edition of our #BuildinPublic newsletter! 🙌🏼 January 2024 kicked off with an exciting founder meet up in Prague, we welcomed new members to our community advisory team, and showed off our new Workfree T-shirts. 😂
Let's take a look at January 2023 and what we have planned for February.
WORK
✅ Started the search for more Ruby Developers
✅ UX improvements; pools, sidebars, banners
✅ Launched our new website messaging
✅ Increased revenue 50% MoM
✅ Achieved first transactional revenue
FREE
✅ Welcomed 2 new community partners
✅ Increased our freelance sign ups by 12.5%
✅ Launched out 2024 #GoingFreelance series
✅ Spoke at the KOOS Round table event
✅ Distributed 10,480 virtual shares in total
LIFE
✅ 2024 Kick off in Prague was a huge success.
✅ Worked from London, Prague and Poole.
✅ Workfree T-shirts printed - Major milestone
✅ Connected with freelancers globally
✅ #WorkfreeWednesday social engagement 📈
Welcome our new community partners:
Ayumi Moore Aoki
Founder: Women in Tech
Adam Faulkner
Founder: FreelanceAF
What's in store for February
✅ Work: Testing our revamped freelancer app, empowering freelancers to secure direct bookings through their Workfree profiles, all with zero commissions. Rolling out a new cutting-edge compliance and payments partner, plus, we're setting the stage for community leaders, providing free software to enhance their communities 👊
✅ Free: Welcoming numerous freelancers and expanding our Co-Founding Community by 200 members. Stay tuned for our weekly #GoingFreelance series and insightful interviews with industry leaders in our #WorkfreeConnect series.
✅ Life: As founders, we pledged to meet in person every month. This February, we're keeping that promise with a meet-up in Prague—bonding, connecting, and having a great time together!
TLDR: Basically, January was awesome and February is going to be even better!
Catch you all in March 👉🏻