Dapple
A smart platform to manage awards, contests and applications
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A smart platform to manage awards, contests and applications
565 followers
Dapple is an all-in-one management platform helping businesses in the creative industry collect, review, manage and report on submissions. Whether it's running calls for entry, awards, accepting applications, managing contests or pitches, Dapple streamlines the whole process into one simple-to-use platform, saving users hours in admin.
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Hey PH world!
If you’ve ever tried to run an award, contest, open call, or any kind of submission or application process, you probably know the drill: scattered emails, messy spreadsheets, a mixture of forms, reviewers working in different places. If you’ve got software, it’s probably clunky, expensive and built in the 2000s.
Dapple is our answer to that.
It’s a smart, simple platform that brings everything into one place. With beautiful forms for collecting applications, intuitive tools for organising, review panels for scoring, voting and feedback and easy ways of communicating with applicants, it removes the admin chaos.
Who’s it for?
Built by creatives for creatives, Dapple is aimed at arts organisations, publishers, non-profits, creative institutions - small teams doing big, meaningful work. We wanted to build a tool that would break the mould of a dry, corporate-based application system and create one that was sleek, intuitive, transparent, and fun to use.
Thanks for checking us out!
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Who is your target audience? Because first thing that came to my mind are some sport tournaments and online games (esports)
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@busmark_w_nika Hey Nika! Our target audience is the creative industries. Our platform is built to accept any file type and size and is designed for the processes required by those industries. That being said, due to the flexibility of the workflows/forms/setup etc, we've have had a mix of inbound from adjacent industries too and so depending on the setup, we could also work with sports tournaments and online games too :)
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@eric_ukeje Thanks for the feedback Eric. There's lots in the pipeline but our review panel feature (building teams of reviewers or judges to independently score, vote, comment on submissions) will be taken to the next level in subsequent releases with advanced automations and reporting. Cheers
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Congrats on the launch! What was your inspiration or motivation to build Dapple?
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@peterclaridge Thanks! I'm originally a musician and a writer, and always found the process of either submitting demos or articles/manuscripts very cumbersome. I'd often send work off and not hear back (if at all) for months. It quickly transpired this was because creative orgs were being overwhelmed with submissions and had no real way to manage them. This then led us to try and fix the route issue - a better way to manage submissions. If we could improve the ability for businesses running creative applications, awards or contests then the net effect would be an all-around better experience for the people submitting material too!
Really like the “built by creatives for creatives” positioning. It shows in the design and simplicity. Tools in this space often feel corporate and outdated, so Dapple’s approach is refreshing.
Excited to see how smaller teams adopt this. What kind of early organizations or institutions have started using it?
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@dkspeaks Thanks for your feedback - I agree! Organisations using us so far have included small publishers, presses, magazines and journals, art contests and exhibitions, residencies, academic institutions, non-profits and other creative contests and awards.
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Ah, flashbacks. Ran a small arts award with Google Forms + messy sheets. Total chaos. Nice to see review panels + comms in one place. How’s blind judging handled and dupes deduped? Screens feel clean, not corporate. Could’ve used this last year.
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@alexcloudstar Ah shame we weren't around then to help you out! Personal creator details can be hidden for blind reviews. Previous submissions are stored against their profile and using filters and bulk select, you can easily archive dupes en masse (although it doesn't tend to be too much of an issue so far with early customers). Thanks for taking a look and the feedback!
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That's a great idea to have a management platform for reward stuff. Congrats on the launch 🚀
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@basharath Thanks!