We built UpForge because degrees weren't teaching students how to actually build.

Hey PH community 👋

We kept noticing the same pattern — talented students graduating with strong grades but zero hands-on experience building real products. So we started UpForge, a platform that helps students and early professionals learn by actually building projects, with mentorship from people who've shipped real products.

Inspired by something Kunal Shah (Founder, Cred) once said: "The world doesn't need more degrees, it needs more doers." That line pretty much became our north star.

We're still early and learning a lot. Would love this community's take:

• What's the biggest gap you've seen between "what college teaches" and "what actually gets you hired/funded"?

• If you mentor students or juniors, what's one project-based lesson that taught them more than any classroom?

Happy to share more about what we're building if anyone's curious — but mainly here to learn from this community's experience. 🙌