Hi guys,
Impressed with the direction of the site and the community responsiveness during the couple weeks of my trial. Before I go ahead and take the plunge, however, I would like to ask for a bit more information about the make up of the company.
It’s clear that you have some talented coders working on the team - the site itself is very slick, and as you say, Bunpro has a good record of responding to errors quickly over the past 2 years it’s been up.
My only concern is that there are quite a lot of snazzy apps and websites being developed for language learners, and the companies behind them don’t always hire as many qualified linguists/educational professionals as they do programmers. So it would be helpful to know who is handling this side of things, and how.
For instance, are you developing all the content for the lessons internally, or recycling it from other sources? If so, what are these other sources? What are the qualifications of the people who write/check lesson content? Are they native speakers, teachers, university professors, professional linguists, or what?
Sorry if any of this sounds overly interrogatory - but ultimately the way I look at it is: Bunpro is trying to replace the function of a school, and before paying fees at a school, I would absolutely want to run at least a basic check of who was running it, and what their credentials were.
Want to stress that there’s nothing I’ve seen so far on the site that causes me any alarm in this regard, but I’m also aware that once I push up into N2 and beyond, I’ll be hitting grammar that I don’t know so well, and I’ll be completely reliant on the site to get it absolutely right, 100% of the time.