Meet SenseiHub – the AirBnB for Talent!

By Nimit Jain on June 10, 2014 18 Comments / 6616 views

What if you could get an MIT undergrad to 3D print and prototype something for you? Get a Harvard grad to do market research?

What if this could be as simple as renting a house on AirBnB? (Spoiler Alert)

But before I dive in further,here’s a bit about me : Co-founder SenseiHub.com. Fresh IIT Roorkee grad. Candid Photographer.

What is SenseiHub?

We are a Boston-based micro-internship marketplace where anyone can engage a top student for one week in the cloud instantly (at the press of a button) and affordably.

Who can use SenseiHub?

Anyone with market research, marketing or innovation needs.

How to use the platform?

[1] Contact a student directly. Here’s how it looks :

[2] Have students contact you. Post your project brief in a couple of sentences, and students that meet your criteria (North America, finance, undergrad) will contact you same day. You can control how many responses you want so you aren’t flooded.

How much will it cost to use the service?

Average student stipend: $200/week/student. We charge a small 10% fee to make the marketplace available.

The Ask:

We (My Boston-based co-founder Aditya Sudhakar and I) would be thrilled if you could give SenseiHub.com a spin, share us with friends give us your feedback! Its my first post on Rodinhoods – so apologies for any rookie errors! 🙂

Also,if you’d like us to partner with your alma mater,have any ideas to share or just want to say ‘Hi!’ do drop us a line at nimit@senseihub.com / buzz at +91 741 717 7927.

Thanks for your time!

PS : We’re on the lookout for full stack developers (equity comp). Ping me if interested!

Comments

Nimit Jain

18 Comments

asha chaudhry June 10, 2014, 4:37 am

nimit – first reaction – love the name!!!

in your next post do share the creative rationale behind the name and how the idea of starting up this venture was born….

you’ve got an interesting idea i must say. am looking fwd to the feedback other rodinhooders will give you!

all the best!!
Nimit Jain June 10, 2014, 5:00 am

Oh great! Glad you like it 🙂

Absolutely. All credits to Aditya! Would get him to do a post on next time.

Thanks again. Fingers cross’d!

And let me tell you that am a big fan of your newsletters – simple,candid & fresh 🙂
Alok Rodinhood Kejriwal June 10, 2014, 8:57 am

This is incredible!
Nikhil Malankar June 10, 2014, 9:36 am

Wow!! Amazing idea man!! Really loved the concept!! 🙂
asha chaudhry June 10, 2014, 10:06 am

nimit,

alok shared your post on his fb page. you might want to follow the post and respond to the comments:

Shobhit Kumar Verma One of my friends started with this model and pivoted out to doing the research in-house. His startup is https://www.whalepath.com/ . The challenge is to get students and keep them engaged. HourlyNerd.com started this way also and they pivoted to ex-MBAs freelancer types. The lesson learnt was – Students are mostly unreliable and too distracted. I don’t think money is going to solve that problem but for what it’s worth, the price point needs to be at least $500 per week (for full time) and you need supervision to ensure quality.

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Nimit Jain June 10, 2014, 10:20 am

Thanks so much for the heads-up!
Harsh Gilda June 10, 2014, 6:01 pm

Nice to see one of my ideas already in place and working.. I thought to start something like this for my Alma Matter.. As an Alumni- student platform to mutually benefit students and Alums.. And a great place to get solutions of simple problems and earn pocket money, experience contacts..etc..etc.
Aditya Mishra June 11, 2014, 4:48 pm

very good idea!!
Nimit Jain June 11, 2014, 4:52 pm

Glad to know that! Would you like to have a quick chat sometime to let us know if we’d benefit from your brainstorming back then? 🙂

nimit@senseihub.com / +91 741 717 7927 / Skype : nimit.jain92
Nimit Jain June 11, 2014, 4:53 pm

Thanks Aditya!
Harsh Gilda June 13, 2014, 7:33 am

Sure Nimit, I am free tomorrow (Saturday).. I would be glad to share my thoughts..:) Ping me harshgilda@gmail.com 8373901906.
Aditya Sudhakar June 14, 2014, 6:03 pm

Well done Nimit, and thank you for the kind words Alok!

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asha chaudhry June 24, 2014, 8:46 am

hey thanks nimit! missed your last line.

it’s not often that i get feedback on the newsletters!!
Nimit Jain June 24, 2014, 8:49 am

you deserve it 🙂
asha chaudhry September 2, 2014, 6:15 am

hey nimit,

how are things in SenseiHubland??

do update us! would love to know!!
Aditya Sudhakar September 2, 2014, 6:58 am

Asha, thank you so much for checking in. We’ve been busy- companies like crocs, verizon, avisbudget, hcl, Siemens are using the marketplace. We recently chatted with IDEO CEO Tim Brown (https://ideo.pn/ye-convo). Do get in touch if we can help!
asha chaudhry September 5, 2015, 4:34 am

hey nimit – happy b’day!!

any updates on senseihub?!
Nimit Jain September 7, 2015, 2:26 am

Hi Asha! Thank you so much for remembering (both the b’day & about Senseihub) 🙂

Yes yes! Senseihub has expanded its team & caught the eye of couple of investors. In fact we’d do a follow-up piece on the project’s progress!

Have a great week. Thanks again!