When I look back, CampaignHub started as just an idea shared between three friends who wanted to make volunteering easier. Ethan, Joonsung, and I were always involved in social advocacy movements at school and in our communities. We kept noticing the same challenge. People wanted to participate but had no clear way to find opportunities. Organizers struggled to reach the people who cared most.
So we started building. After class, we would sketch wireframes and debate features, slowly turning conversations into a prototype. But building a tool for communities meant actually reaching out to them. We sent over 100 cold emails to nonprofits, student organizations, and community leaders. We jumped on Zoom calls with the founder of TurnUp, with Palava Hut, and with local advocacy groups who gave us honest feedback about what worked and what did not.
For the first time, we also tried “building in public.” Posting our updates on LinkedIn was nerve-wracking at first, but it became a way to hold ourselves accountable. Every post forced us to clarify what we were doing and why it mattered. To our surprise, people responded. Some offered encouragement, others made introductions, and slowly CampaignHub began to feel less like a school project and more like something the world might actually need.
The work has taken us further than we imagined. Our team was selected as a Top 5 winner in the Unfounders competition, and soon we will be flying out to San Francisco for Tech Week to share our project. SBS reached out to feature our story, and we will appear in an upcoming Netflix documentary on AI in business in Korea.
But the recognition is only part of the journey. The late nights writing outreach emails, the calls where ideas clicked into place, and the shared sense of purpose with Ethan and Joonsung have been just as meaningful. Each of us brought different strengths, and together we learned that good ideas grow stronger when tested with others.
We are just getting started. CampaignHub is not only a product but also a reflection of who we are and what we care about. Our hope is that it connects more people to the causes they believe in, so that movements can keep building momentum.
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