Will this fail?
Hi everyone from the pas few months i had been building CollabX It is basically a community collaboration platform which helps students break through the loop of experience required for their first opportunity.The main problem: millions of students graduate without having enough practical industry level exposure but a strong theoretical knowledge which leads them nowhere in the industry , another problem many professionals who want to switch their careers finds it difficult to do that because they are unable to find perfect projects/ resources to do that
What i am doing is i am onboarding startups/ Govt organisation/ companies to post their problem statements/ projects they are facing issue or wants to be explored but they don’t have resources or talent to do it now so they can post them on CollabX and students irrespective of their background will work upon it , which will help them gain exposure to how real startups works what problems they solve rather than fancy projects given by ChatGpt
In future this might also turn into hiring pipeline where companies don’t hire based on resumes but on basis of quality solutions they have provided to the projects of that startup
I will keep this completely free for gaining early traction but in future i have 2 business models in mind
I will charge the project posting side by taking a minimal one time payment fee for posting and if company is willing to give prize pool to students whoose problem gets selected then i might take x%commission from it
2nd one i can monetise through subscription similarly like linkedIn
I would love genuine feedback , criticism and improvements that should be made to platform
Posted Jul 11, 2026, 9:03 PM UTC