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How to promote my non-profit edtech platform?
1 points by rohansrma •                         
I built placeprep.app and added good learning contents covering ai inference engineering, context engineering, system designs and others but it's not showing up much. I have growing users but it's not growing as faster as I thought. I can't invest money at this point. Do you have any idea on how to grow organically, so that more peeps can join?
saadbukhari1 •                         
wherever u add it , u should provide the link , make it available to as much users as possible.
rohansrma •                         
already doing and getting traffic but not as expected.
verdverm •                         
I looked at the site, looks largely AI generated, is that the case?
rohansrma •                         
you mean ui wise? If so, then it's not. but yes, AI is used a lot to keep things aligned.
verdverm •                         
I mean content wise, it has the tell tale signs and I find it very unlikely you wrote that much yourself - and by proxy - audited it for correctness, completeness, and coherence.

A good rule of thumb is "if you want human attention, put human effort into creation"

rohansrma •                         
nopes, I didn't write all those myself. I audited them and kept only the things that are important from an engineer's perspective.

also, I used ai to rewrite what I had as raw content. (it's reworded completely by ai. and i reviewed that myself, it felt easy for readers to read.)

removing those ai signs is easy but I don't want to.

verdverm •                         
Then perhaps you have answered your own question, humans don't want to read Ai writing

If you actually care about helping others learn, you will change your course

rohansrma •                         
I will humanize it back. Thanks for the feedback!
willio58 •                         
I work at an edtech company (far from the content on this site) and I have to say the only real value in companies like this in an age of AI being able to spin up a platform in a few hours is human-written content. Otherwise why wouldn’t a person studying for one of these just ask Claude to write up a lesson plan?

Human generated content is quite literally the only thing left.

rohansrma •                         
I just reword it with AI for easiness and simplicity.
Digitalisierung •                         
If it is really non-profit you can get Google Ad Grants and get traffic via free Google Ads.