A map, a real CV, and a hundred smaller mercies

We want every student to take part in at least one Model UN conference in their student life.

That is the whole thing, and everything below is in service of it. We build two pieces of software to get there. MUN Command is where chairs, delegates and organizers communicate and reach their documents during the conference. mymun streamlines the organizing, and makes conferences easier for participants to find and register for.

mymun is the platform for the Model United Nations community, where organizers meet their delegates and find the tools to focus on what they are best at: making their MUN the success it deserves.

Without mymun, applications open in a rush, the delegate spreadsheet grows a column nobody remembers adding, someone asks "did they actually get the acceptance email?", and a delegation leader spends three weeks chasing a payment nobody explained. We spent the summer on the parts of that rhythm that quietly cost you an evening or more.

You are in Milan for the summer with three free weekends and no idea what is near you. Until now, finding out meant scrolling a list of names and looking each one up.

Now there is a map. Every conference on mymun, plotted, filterable by level or by whether applications are still open. Everything in view is listed beside it, each with its logo, dates, price and delegate rating, so you can go from "what is near Frankfurt" to "apply now" without opening a single new tab.

And if you would rather read than pan, every country and continent has its own page now, like Model UN conferences in Germany, plus one for online conferences where you can join without leaving your room.

Top right, next to your account. One place that knows what is waiting for you: an unanswered invitation, a payment that failed, a conference asking for something.

The part that matters is that each item does something. An assignment carries "Upload position paper". An acceptance carries "Pay now". You are not sent somewhere else to deal with it.

Every automated mail mymun sends was rewritten this summer: dark mode, a real plain-text version, one-click unsubscribe, and deadlines shown in your timezone rather than ours. The acceptance email now carries a Pay button, because the old one told you that you owed money and then left you to find where to hand it over.

Your MUN CV is the thing you share: who you are, a Highlights band pulling out your awards and standout roles, your conference record, and anything you have published on our blog. There is a copy-link button, because sending it to someone is the entire point. You also get a bio field, at last, and per-conference visibility, so the one you would rather not advertise can quietly sit out.

Your dashboard is the thing you use, at mymun.com/my-mun. Your conferences, your account, your payments. Nobody else sees it.

Open your workspace and the first thing you see is everything genuinely waiting on you, in priority order. An invitation. A payment due, or a card that failed. A profile missing something an organizer will ask for. A conference you could review.

If the band is empty, you are done, and that is a good thing to be told.

If your conference charges nothing, you should not have to set up a payment processor, submit identity documents, or explain to your treasurer why a bank account is needed to run something free.

Mark it as free when you create it and all of that disappears. No Stripe, no fee setup. The Financials section and the Fees tab are gone, your delegates never meet a payment step or a payment reminder, and the acceptance email drops its payment paragraph. Your conference shows as Free on the listing, which advertises considerably better than a price of zero. Free is Free!

Bank info, documents, numbers and prices… Now setup asks about currency first, because everything else depends on it, and asks where you live rather than making you guess which country field means what. Collecting the money yourself or having mymun collect it is now an explicit, explained decision instead of a hidden fork. If you charge in Malaysian ringgit, it is in the list.

Verification got the same treatment. You can see the documents you already submitted, a banner tells you what is outstanding and by when, and when Stripe switches your card payments off you hear it from us rather than from a delegate who cannot pay.

Apply, wait, get accepted, get an email about money, forget, get reminded, forget again. Every step loses someone, and you carry the unpaid applications until the deadline.

You can now require payment at submission. The applicant gets a Review & Pay step at the end of the form, and what lands in your queue is a paid application. It is optional, and turning it on asks you to acknowledge what it changes.

For years you could not answer "did we send them the acceptance email?" You sent it, the platform said so, and a delegate wrote in saying they had heard nothing.

There is now a full email log: every mail, every recipient, and the send status of each. Search recipients by name, watch a campaign go out live, and open the archived body six weeks later to read the exact words that went. Emails also appear in each applicant's activity log, so one person's whole correspondence sits in a single timeline.

Mass mail is personalized from inside the editor, with a preview that cycles through real recipients. You choose how much to pay out, trigger a payout immediately, and set your own schedule.

The homepage, the organizer pages, the blog and the calendar were rebuilt on one design system. And there are three new pages worth a look: about us, the scholarship delegation, and a thank-you page for the people who have built things with us.

And there is a Send Feedback link in the footer and in the help modal. We read all of it, and a good number of the things above started as one annoyed sentence from someone using the platform.