Runs the program
- Invites interns, overseers and marketers
- Pairs each intern with an overseer and a marketer
- Balances mentor workloads
- Makes sure weekly chats are happening
Internships that ship
Interns build real software. Overseers and marketers help it land.
Fledge Forge pairs each software intern with a project overseer and a marketer. The intern builds and launches their own SaaS product at their own pace, and talks it through with each mentor once a week. No idea yet? Interns can claim one from the idea bank.
How it works
From an idea to a product with paying users
Join by invite, with or without an idea
The admin invites each cohort's interns and mentors. Interns can pitch their own SaaS, or join without one and claim an idea from the idea bank.
Get a team of two
Each intern is paired with a project overseer to help steer the project and a marketer for the customers. Mentors work with several interns at once.
Build, talk, launch
Interns do the work and set their own pace. Once a week they talk it through with each mentor, and the marketer's introductions bring in real customers.
Four roles
Who does what
Everyone signs in to their own page, and what one person does shows up for the rest of their team. For example, a topic an intern adds for their next chat shows up on their overseer's page.
Keeps the project on track
- Mentors several interns, each building a different SaaS
- Meets each one at least once a week
- Brings programming experience to help direct the project
- Handles technical legal work, like the privacy policy
- Stays out of the day-to-day work
Finds the users
- Mentors several interns, each with a different product
- Meets each one at least once a week
- Talks through positioning, pricing and launch
- Introduces products to people in their network
- Handles business legal work, like terms of service
Builds the product
- Owns one SaaS from idea to launch
- Brings an idea or claims one from the idea bank
- Sets their own goals and pace
- Brings topics to weekly mentor chats
- Brings up things like introductions in their chats
Current cohort
What interns are building
Build something real this semester
Interns get a team. Mentors get to shape the next generation of builders.