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"Sandbox" is a build-in-public collaboration platform where students, startups, and future founders turn learning into real proof of work.
The idea is simple: students should not have to wait for a job to prove they can build, and startups should not have to rely only on resumes to find motivated people.
With Sandbox, startups can document their journey, post real projects, review applications, and discover student builders. Students can share what they are learning, apply to startup projects, post their own ideas, find collaborators, and slowly move from learning to building to starting up.
Sandbox also includes leaderboards and events to make the community feel active and opportunity-driven. Leaderboards highlight the most upraised posts of the week, helping strong ideas, useful updates, and active builders get discovered faster. Events allow students and startups to host sessions, workshops, meetups, demo days, or collaboration calls, turning the platform into more than a place to apply — it becomes a place to learn, connect, and build in public.
Sandbox is not just a matching app. It is a space for ambition, collaboration, and proof of work.
Link : Sandbox
Built with Figma Make, Figma Design, and Figma Weave for the Config Makeathon.
This is a solid piece of work 🔥 You can really see the skill and dedication behind it. Keep building and improving excited to see what you create next
thank you 🙌
The framing that students shouldn't wait for a job to prove they can build is the sharpest part; resumes compress people into keywords, while proof of work shows judgment. The real risk sits in the leaderboard: rank by upvotes and you end up optimizing for popularity, not for...
Yes, I agree. But the leaderboard is not meant to be the place to gain popularity. It is just one feature whose main purpose is to encourage students to post, share their achievements, document what they learned, and show their progress publicly. It is more about motivation and...
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