Openmind matches you with an expert mentor, who guides you 1-on-1 via unlimited text messaging to help you more quickly reach your goals — whether you’re looking to learn something new, grow your career, build a business, launch a side project, etc. Openmind is available both on web (click "Get a mentor" on the homepage) and iOS

Hey Product Hunt! Excited to be launching Openmind today. Would love to hear your feedback. Here's the full story about the project, if you're interested: https://medium.com/@maxdeutsch/w... And here's the quick version... Openmind matches you with an expert mentor, who guides you 1-on-1 via unlimited text messaging to help you more quickly reach your goals — whether you’re looking to learn something new, grow your career, build a business, launch a side project, etc. There are currently 400+ expert mentors on the Openmind platform, who work at places like Google, NASA, and Airbnb, have built and sold multi-million dollar businesses, and have studied at the world’s top universities like Harvard, MIT, and Princeton. Currently, we offer mentors for the following categories: Entrepreneurship, app development, UI/UX design, machine learning, data science, digital marketing, web development, music production, product management, photography, sales, mathematics, intro to coding, film production, business strategy, economics, finance, ethereum development, foreign languages, art, and graphic design. We're adding new mentors and categories every week, so if there's isn't a mentor for you right now, there should be soon... The idea for Openmind came after I personally mentored ~60 students via text message in the past year. The text-based mentoring was surprisingly successful, but not very scalable, so I figured I'd build a platform that would enable world-class mentors and students to connect. The aspirational goal is to catalogue the expertise of everyone in the world, and build tools that make it easy for this expertise to be discovered and shared. But, one step at a time... Let me know if you have any questions!

@maxdeutsch @_maxdeutsch Could you tell us a bit more about the business model? How do you compensate mentors and where do you make money? Thanks

@maxdeutsch @abadesi Hey Abadesi - Students pay a subscription of $29/week for unlimited messaging with their mentor, of which ~80% is paid out to mentors. To put this in perspective, a typical one hour tutoring or personal training session once a week usually cost $50-100, so we think this price is really competitive. We continue to build tools for mentors to help them be more effective and efficient at scale.

I've been an Openmind mentee for almost 6 months now and it's been an awesome experience. I highly recommend and it's been worth every dollar I've spent. I've learned more than I could ever have alone.

Pros:

It's fantastic to have a mentor that's easily accessible to keep me accountable on my projects. I have nothing to say but great things.

Cons:

None really. It'd be great if students could collaborate with other students doing similar projects.

This is an awesome idea Max! One-on-One mentoring is one of the best ways to learn a new skill.

@andre_farinazo Thanks, Andre! Really appreciate the support

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