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 missing toolkit for families navigating NCAA recruitment.

The problem

Information about NCAA recruitment is everywhere. What's missing are the tools to actually manage the process. Spreadsheets, inboxes and notes apps don't cut it.

What it is

Play2College is a free web platform that helps student-athletes track and organise their college recruitment from first contact through to committing. Built by a parent who went through the process.

Highlights

Track up to 680 Division I and II programs with custom recruitment stages
Compare schools across 35+ academic, athletic and cultural criteria
Interactive map view, colour-coded by recruitment status
Coach-contact log: emails, calls, visits and offers in one place
Calendar for campus visits, coach calls and deadlines
Invite parents, guardians or agents to collaborate
Completely free. No paywall, no upsell.

Visit Play2College.com

To be announced

NexKyn.app

In development

A purpose-built networking platform. In development.

The problem

Networking today is split between social feeds, messaging apps and dated professional networks. NexKyn fills a sharper gap.

What it is

NexKyn is a new networking platform, currently in active development. More details will follow closer to launch. If you'd like an early-access notification, drop a note via the contact form.

Highlights

Currently in design and early development
Private alpha planned for 2026
Built on a modern, privacy-respecting stack

Parents of young children

KidsOpStap.com

In development

Discover what to do with your kids, in your neighbourhood.

The problem

Local family activities are scattered across community sites, school boards, municipal calendars and social feeds. There's no single place to scan what's happening this weekend.

What it is

KidsOpStap brings events, workshops, playgrounds and family-friendly outings into one visual feed. Parents plan their weekend in minutes instead of browsing a dozen sources.

Highlights

Neighbourhood-level event discovery
Curated highlights for school holidays and rainy days
Organiser profiles for local businesses and community groups
Friendly, parent-first tone. Dutch audience, mobile-first.

Visit KidsOpStap.com

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 three properties below made up the PP2G trifecta: community, video, and editorial.

Dutch urban music & nightlife community

PP2G (PartyPeeps2000)

2001 – 2013

Retired

One of the Netherlands’ largest online communities of the 2000s.

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 and run by Robertino Blagrove through Connecting The Scene BV. What started as a niche party-scene site grew into one of the largest online communities in the country. At its 2006 peak PP2G ranked as the 5th most-visited website in the Netherlands on Alexa.com, with more than 1.2 million unique visitors and over 300,000 registered active users. PP2G closed on 30 January 2013, its audience by then absorbed by Hyves and Facebook.

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

A video-sharing platform for the PP2G generation.

The problem

Urban-scene video content (interviews, event aftermovies, music videos from emerging Dutch artists) had no natural home outside mainstream TV.

What it was

PP2G.TV extended the PP2G platform into video. It gave artists, clubs and event organisers a dedicated space to publish scene-native video: interviews, performances, aftermovies. This was a time when YouTube was broad, but culturally neutral. PP2G.TV ran alongside PP2G.com and the PP2G Web Magazine under Connecting The Scene BV.

Highlights

Scene-native video sharing for Dutch urban culture
Tight integration with the PP2G.com community and profiles
Ran as a full sister-property, not a YouTube channel

PP2G readers and the wider Dutch urban-lifestyle audience

PP2G Web Magazine

c. 2008 – 2013

Retired

Lifestyle & entertainment editorial for the scene.

The problem

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

What it was

The PP2G Web Magazine was the editorial arm of the PP2G platform: a standalone web magazine covering lifestyle, music and entertainment for the same audience the community served. It completed the trifecta of community (PP2G.com), video (PP2G.TV) and publication (PP2G Web Mag) under Connecting The Scene BV.

Highlights

Lifestyle and entertainment editorial
Part of a vertically integrated scene platform
Eleven issues published between 2008 and 2011
Complementary to PP2G Music, the 24/7 urban-music web radio launched in November 2003

Issues · 2008 – 2011