Openmind

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!

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.

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?

I am mentoring through Openmind and loving it! It is a great oportunity to give back and help people who are starting their careers. Thank you, Max, for creating this platform!

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

I've been a mentor on Openmind for a couple months now and it's going really well. I had been following Max's projects online for a while, and this idea is very needed, especially among people new to coding or in the start of their learning-to-code journey. I wish there was this app when I was starting out! I spend a few minutes a day, getting my mentee unstuck in their learning, and keeping them accountable to their goals. It feels really good to support another person's learning, and nice to get that extra $100 a month :)

Great job @ransegall on the design 👏