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We redesigned and built BogiDope’s member platform around the path to a pilot slot.

BogiDope gives aspiring military pilots the content, coaching and community to earn a Guard or Reserve pilot slot. New members get a welcome and one button to start. The Roadmap shows the path block by block, and members share Trip Reports from their interviews.

  • WordPress
  • FluentCommunity
  • WooCommerce
  • FluentCRM
  • Elementor

What we did

Our part
Membership platform
Everything a member uses: onboarding, the Roadmap, Trip Reports, the Career Vault, the video library and BogiPoints rewards. Built on WordPress and FluentCommunity, with FluentCRM behind it.
Connections with MilRecruiter
MilRecruiter is BogiDope’s own Guard and Reserve pilot application platform, run by their team. We work with them on some of the connections and setup between BogiDope and MilRecruiter.

Their websites

Inside the member platform

The current design, in the order a member moves through it. A few pages are shown in the earlier design.

bogidope.com
John McFarlinIn their words

In John’s words

John McFarlin · Founder, BogiDope
At this point, I don’t really think of them as an outside development team anymore. They’re an integral part of our day-to-day operations, and they’ve played a huge role in helping us grow.
John’s full message

We’ve been working with Danica and her team (primarily Gedeon and Avegail) for several years now, and I genuinely can’t imagine running our business without them.

What started as help with website improvements and occasional projects has turned into a team that’s involved in just about every major part of our online business. They’ve handled countless website upgrades, new features, integrations, troubleshooting, and all the little things that inevitably come up when you’re running and growing an online business.

Most recently, they helped us pull off a massive migration from BuddyBoss to FluentCommunity, which involved rebuilding a huge part of our membership platform while keeping everything running. Danica also recommended an entirely new server setup that significantly improved our website speed while actually reducing our hosting costs. That’s a pretty good example of what makes them different. They’re not just waiting around for us to give them a list of things to fix. They’re constantly looking for ways to make things better, faster, and more efficient.

As a non-technical founder, I can’t overstate how valuable that is. I know enough to have big ideas and occasionally break things, but I need people I trust to figure out how to actually make those ideas work. Danica, Gedeon, and Avegail have been those people for years. They understand our business, know how all the pieces fit together, and regularly catch things I wouldn’t even know to look for.

At this point, I don’t really think of them as an outside development team anymore. They’re an integral part of our day-to-day operations, and they’ve played a huge role in helping us grow.

If you’re looking for someone to knock out a quick website project, I’m sure they can do that. But if you’re looking for a team you can trust with the technical side of your business for the long haul, I can’t recommend them highly enough.

John McFarlinFounder, BogiDope

Built on

The community and courses now run in one tool: FluentCommunity, with its built-in courses, took over from BuddyBoss and LearnDash. WooCommerce, FluentCRM and Elementor stayed.

PlatformWordPress
CommunityFluentCommunity
CheckoutWooCommerce
CRM & emailFluentCRM
Page builder & themeElementor

Tools we switched

  • CommunityBuddyBossLearnDash→FluentCommunity
Danica Louwe

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