Openmind

Learn faster with 1-on-1 mentoring from an expert

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Learn faster with 1-on-1 mentoring from an expert

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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

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Wayzaway

Great job! I would like to find out more about the learning process. How do you teach foreign languages through messages? Because learning foreign languages involves learning pronunciation. How do you go about that? And also how do you keep students motivated?

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8yr ago

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@griffellab We've found that just having an accountability partner (i.e. your mentor) + a more structured learning plan (that you create with your mentor) helps with motivation a lot. As for as foreign languages, in most cases, the mentor doesn't do the actual teaching. Instead, they curate the best resources, help create a plan, provide daily guidance, etc. The average foreign language mentor on Openmind speaks four languages (we have one mentor who even speaks 12), so they have a lot of experience learning new languages, even if they don't actually have experience with the particular language your interested in. Admittedly, though, languages are one of the more challenging use cases based on the current product.

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8yr ago

@_maxdeutsch I really do like the idea and I tried it for a few days already, but have some questions and concerns that I'm hoping you may be able to help with: 1. My current mentor lives in PST timezone while I live in CET. that gives us a couple hours of chatting hours and during those times it is end of my day so I don't generally have the energy to chat. Is there a way to find someone closer to my timezone? 2. It is advertised as a 24/7 chat platform but mentors do respond whenever they want/can. Is there a policy that mentors have to follow in terms of response time? 3. If I need two mentors at once within two different categories, do I need to open two accounts?

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@footer Hey Amin - Thanks for writing. In general, here's how I recommend you best work with your mentor: Rather than having a back and forth conversation, throughout the day as you are working, send any questions or thoughts to your mentor. Your mentor can then respond to everything you've written once or twice a day in larger chunks. While real-time chatting is supported, we've found that larger check-ins seem to work better: It gives mentors the opportunity to respond in a more holistic (and less time sensitive) way. Now to your questions: 1. We can definitely reassign a new mentor to you. However, if you are working with your mentor in a less real-time way (as suggested above), timezones matter less. If you think your mentor is a good fit, I'd encourage you to try out this approach. If it's still not working, send support@openmindlearning.com an email and we will reassign your mentor. 2. Our policy is that mentors should do their best to respond as soon as possible, and in no more than 24 hours. 3. Currently, yes, you'll need to create two accounts. If you have any more questions or feedback, you can send me an email at max@openmindlearning.com. Thanks for trying out Openmind and helping us make the service better.

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8yr ago

@_maxdeutsch Thanks for your thoroughness. I just sent an email to support

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8yr ago

Can users see a timeline or summary of what they've learned with the mentor? As a visual to see their growth in that category?

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@be_radu Not yet, but this is a cool idea. We're currently testing a few different ways to visualize progress

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8yr ago

Embra - The AI Operating System

Hey! I built a mentorship network before but we shut down the project for many reasons. Spent 2 years on it, so if you want to chat I'd be happy to transfer any knowledge of the market. My main question for you -> How do you achieve paying mentors $50/hour while keeping the program $29/week for what seems like unlimited use?

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@zachtratar Hey Zach - We are investing heavily in the tools mentors use, helping them mentor much more efficiently (only a few minutes each day, on average), but still ensuring a great experience for students. Definitely curious what you learned during your project... Can you send me an email? You can find my email address at max.xyz. Thanks!

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8yr ago

@_maxdeutsch Another question! I just been charged $116 which I am assuming is for 4 weeks, while I expected the billing to be weekly. Can you please give more details on it? Also, how and where can I retrieve an invoice? As I would like to deduct it as business cost. Thanks

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8yr ago

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@footer Hey Amin - I've sent you an email

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8yr ago

Hi Max. I already run a mentor ship program in Dubai. Would love to be part of your program as a mentor. Can you send me some info?

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8yr ago

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@kavehanoosh Hey Kaveh - You can apply to be a mentor here: https://www.openmindlearning.com...

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8yr ago

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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!

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8yr ago

Hustle Crew Academy

@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

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8yr ago

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@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.

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8yr ago

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