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Unilinks
Global Education Platform
An all-in-one platform helping students discover, apply and manage opportunities to study abroad.
- Role
- Co-founder & COO
- Duration
- 2023 — Present
- Co-founders
- Aung Kaung Pyae · Ngu Wah Aung · Angela
- My contribution
- Product Strategy · Operations · Marketing · Partnerships
Impact
150+
Students enrolled
50–100%
Scholarships secured
7+
Interns trained
3
Countries recruiting
The problem
The journey abroad is fragmented.
Students who want to study abroad often navigate universities, scholarships, applications, documents, visas, accommodation, deadlines and communication — across dozens of tools that don't talk to each other. The result is confusion, missed deadlines, and lost opportunities.
The insight
“Students don't just need information. They need a system that guides them through the entire journey.”
The product
One platform, from discovery to arrival.
Unilinks brings the whole student journey into a single, coherent experience — from browsing universities to tracking visa progress.
Product evolution
Step 01
Agency
Step 02
Service
Step 03
Digital tools
Step 04
Platform
Each step was driven by real customer problems. The agency uncovered the manual pain. The service revealed what could be systematised. Digital tools proved which features unlocked real time savings. The platform is the compounding result.
Outcome
What I learned.
Real problems make better products.
Every meaningful feature came from watching a student get stuck. Nothing came from a whiteboard alone.
Systems beat services.
A service scales linearly with people. A product scales with usage — but only if the underlying journey is well-modelled.
Trust is the real moat.
Families are trusting us with their child's future. Every UI decision has to earn that.
Ship small, listen loud.
The best iteration cycles came from tiny releases followed by long conversations.