openhour

Where students meet the founders they want to become.

For E-cells, incubation centres and alumni offices. One home for your campus’s builders: talks, bootcamps, student teams, and alumni who give an hour back.

Create your college community

Organised the way you already are

Chapters, units and groups, named your way. Here’s a typical example.

Chapters

Campuses or faculties

e.g. Faculty of Engineering · School of Management · Alumni

  • Each faculty runs its own talks and bootcamps
  • An alumni chapter so graduates stay close
  • News to one faculty, or to everyone

Units, inside a faculty

Departments or batches

e.g. Computer Science · Design · Class of 2027

  • Sessions for the students they are for
  • Students see who else is building in their department
  • No spamming the whole campus

Groups, across campus

Teams and clubs

e.g. Team Orbit · Product club · Alumni founders

  • Every student startup gets its own small space
  • Clubs bring students together across departments
  • Alumni founders in one group, ready to help

A week on campus

  1. MondayThe Faculty of Engineering announces this term’s startup bootcamp.Chapter
  2. TuesdayComputer Science hosts an alumnus on building a first product. CS students only.Unit
  3. WednesdayTeam Orbit books 30 minutes with someone in Alumni founders who sold to colleges before.Group
  4. FridayThe Product club meets in the library; students from four departments come.Group

What it means for you

Give your campus’s builders a home.

Free to create. Aim for 25 members in your first 30 days.

Create your college community

Not a college? See Accelerators and incubators, VCs and angel networks, Associations and Coworking spaces.