What’s new

New features and useful improvements to GrowthMentor.

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Mentor onboarding, rebuilt inside GrowthMentor

Applying to mentor, booking your interview, and preparing your profile now happen inside GrowthMentor. You can follow your application from your dashboard and review a profile draft based on your interview, giving you less to write from scratch and members more to go on when choosing a mentor.

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Chat just got a lot better

Send voice notes, reply to specific messages, search past conversations, and share a GIF when words won’t do. You can also edit messages, react with emoji, and keep your paragraph formatting. It’s easier to explain your thinking, follow up after a call, and find useful advice again.

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How we replaced Drip and Segment with our own email system

We used to pay around $800 a month for an email setup where Segment passed information from GrowthMentor to Drip. We cancelled both and built the automation into our application, with Postmark delivering the emails for around $20 a month. Here’s a look inside the playground, the finished emails, and the decisions behind each flow.

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Need help? Send us a note.

We replaced Crisp with a simple help button that sends your note to Foti and Jessica. Your account email is already filled in, and you receive a copy of your message. Close the tab, carry on with your day, and look for our reply in your inbox.

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Goodbye WordPress. Hello, one GrowthMentor.

I rebuilt the GrowthMentor website inside our app, bringing everything together at www.growthmentor.com. We retired WordPress, cut outdated sections, and reworked the content worth keeping. You can now move from reading a story to finding a mentor and opening your account on the same website.

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Leave the call with something to act on

Turn advice from recorded calls into something you can return to. AI suggests takeaways once the transcript is ready; you keep what matters and skip the rest. Review recent sessions from your dashboard, then revisit saved insights with links back to the conversation they came from.

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I’m building GrowthMentor myself now

Foti and Matthew Kay beside a turquoise lake with snowy mountains behind them in Parque Nacional Los Glaciares, Patagonia.
With Matthew Kay in Parque Nacional Los Glaciares, Patagonia.

Eight months ago I’d never submitted a pull request. Now I’m GrowthMentor’s lead developer, shipping three to five a day. What those months taught me: start with changes you can inspect and get reviewed, learn the basics, and notice when building faster makes it harder to choose. And the irony: I need to use GrowthMentor more myself.

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