Platforms

Platforms founded and run by JFE Blagrove

Three consumer platforms sit alongside the tech-lead work, plus a heritage that reaches back to one of the Netherlands' largest online communities of the 2000s. Each one started from a problem we ran into ourselves. Each one aims to be useful, honest, and free where it can be.

Current

Student-athletes, parents, and transfer-portal candidates

Play2College.com

Live

The recruitment toolkit NCAA families were missing.

The problem

Information about NCAA recruitment is everywhere. The tools to actually run the process are not. Families end up juggling spreadsheets, group chats, and a scattered trail of coach emails.

What it is

Play2College is a free web platform that organises the full recruitment journey: schools on the radar, side-by-side comparisons, coach-contact logs, campus visits, deadlines, and shared planning with parents, guardians, or agents. Built by a parent who went through the process first-hand.

Highlights

Track 680+ Division I and II programs with custom recruitment stages
Compare schools across 35+ academic, athletic, and cultural criteria
Interactive map, colour-coded by recruitment status
One log for every coach email, call, visit, and offer
Shared calendar for campus visits, coach calls, and deadlines
Collaboration with parents, guardians, and agents
Completely free. No paywall, no upsell.

Visit Play2College.com

Professionals who care about their network

NexKyn.app

In development

A new take on professional networking. Launching 2026.

The problem

Modern professional networking is split across social feeds, messaging apps, and a dated legacy network. The result is noise, not connection, and the relationships that actually matter get lost in the stream.

What it is

NexKyn is a new networking platform in active development, rethinking how professionals find, remember, and stay in touch with the people who matter to their career. More details will be shared closer to launch.

Highlights

In design and active development throughout 2026
Private alpha planned for later this year
Built on a modern, privacy-respecting stack

Parents of young children in the Netherlands

KidsOpStap.com

In development

Every family event in your neighbourhood, on one screen.

The problem

Local family activities are scattered across community sites, school boards, municipal calendars, and social feeds. No single place lets parents see what's actually on this weekend, let alone filter it by age, neighbourhood, or weather.

What it is

KidsOpStap brings events, workshops, playgrounds, and family-friendly outings into one clear, visual feed. Parents plan their weekend in minutes instead of browsing a dozen sources. Built mobile-first for the way parents actually use their phone on a Saturday morning.

Highlights

Neighbourhood-level event discovery
Curated highlights for school holidays and rainy-day plans
Profiles for local organisers, clubs, and community groups
Dutch audience, mobile-first, parent-first tone

Heritage

PP2G: the PartyPeeps2000 era

Before KidsOpStap and Play2College, there was PP2G. Founded by Robertino Blagrove and run through Connecting The Scene BV, the PP2G platform became one of the largest online communities in the Netherlands. At its 2006 peak it was the #5 most-visited website in the country. The four properties below made up the full platform: community, video, editorial, and radio.

Dutch urban music and nightlife community

PP2G (PartyPeeps2000)

2001 – 2013

Retired

The Dutch urban-culture platform that defined a generation online.

The problem

Before Hyves and Facebook, Dutch urban youth had no single home online for the R&B, Hip-Hop, and Reggae scene. No place to connect, discover artists, share stories, or organise around the culture.

What it was

PP2G (PartyPeeps2000) was a Dutch social-network and entertainment platform founded by Robertino Blagrove and run through Connecting The Scene BV from 2001 to 2013. What began as a niche party-scene site grew into one of the country's largest online communities, peaking in 2006 as the 5th most-visited website in the Netherlands on Alexa.com, with over 1.2 million unique monthly visitors and 300,000+ registered active users. PP2G covered four properties: the PP2G.com community, PP2G.TV video platform, PP2G Web Magazine, and PP2G Music web radio.

Highlights

Peak: #5 most-visited website in the Netherlands (Alexa, 2006)
1.2M+ unique monthly visitors at its height
300,000+ registered active users at its peak
Home of the Dutch R&B, Hip-Hop and Reggae scene
Ran for 12 years, from October 2001 to January 2013

Artwork

Artists, clubs, event organisers, and the PP2G community

PP2G.TV

c. 2007 – 2013

Retired

Scene-native video, back when YouTube had no culture.

The problem

Urban-scene video content (artist interviews, event aftermovies, music videos from emerging Dutch artists) had no natural home. Mainstream TV ignored it, and YouTube was broad but culturally neutral.

What it was

PP2G.TV extended the platform into video. Artists, clubs, and event organisers had a dedicated stage for performances, interviews, and aftermovies, tightly integrated with the PP2G.com community and member profiles.

Highlights

Scene-native video for Dutch urban culture
Direct integration with PP2G.com profiles and community
A sister-property to the community, not a channel on someone else’s platform

PP2G readers and the wider Dutch urban-lifestyle audience

PP2G Web Magazine

c. 2008 – 2013

Retired

Long-form editorial for Dutch urban lifestyle.

The problem

The scene had community and video, but no proper editorial voice. No long-form interviews, no lifestyle pieces, no curated coverage worth slowing down for.

What it was

The PP2G Web Magazine was the editorial arm of the platform: a standalone web magazine covering lifestyle, music, and entertainment for the same audience the community served, published across eleven issues between 2008 and 2011.

Highlights

Long-form interviews and lifestyle editorial
Eleven issues published between 2008 and 2011
Part of a vertically integrated scene platform

Issues · 2008 – 2011

PP2G members and Dutch urban-music listeners

PP2G Music

Nov 2003 – 2013

Retired

24/7 urban-music web radio, with the community on the dial.

The problem

Dutch commercial radio barely served urban culture. The scene wanted music it identified with, on demand, with room to request tracks and send dedications right inside the community it already lived in.

What it was

PP2G Music was the platform’s web radio, broadcasting urban music around the clock from November 2003 onwards. Members could request tracks and dedicate songs to friends, giving the station a social layer traditional radio could not match.

Highlights

Launched November 2003
Urban-music programming, 24 hours a day
Song requests and dedications tied to community profiles
On air for a decade, until PP2G closed in January 2013