u/Claymore-Router

We're a team of 4 third-year Computer Science students with a unique setup that might be interesting to some of you.

Our university has a structured industry project module where, instead of doing a traditional internship, we register as a private limited company and spend a full academic year (roughly 8 months of active work, accounting for exams and academic commitments) building real products for real clients. Think of it as a dev studio that happens to be embedded in a university.

We're not beginners. We've shipped products before and know what it takes to go from idea to something people actually use.

What we're looking for:

A founder or early-stage team with a product they want built – ideally something meaty enough to keep us engaged for the duration. Could be an MVP, a v2, or a full platform build. We're flexible on scope as long as there's enough to keep us heads-down for the year.

What you get:

- A dedicated team of 4 for ~8 months

- Serious about shipping – we have academic accountability baked in (presentations, progress reviews, documentation)

- Total cost: $25,000–$30,000 for the entire engagement. That's the full team, not per person.

The honest trade-off:

Because this is tied to our university module, there are periodic academic deliverables on our end – presentations, progress reports, etc. These don't affect the quality of what we build, but it's worth knowing upfront. In exchange, you're getting a committed, affordable team that has every incentive to make the product genuinely good.

What we've built:

Happy to share our past work privately. Drop a comment or DM and we'll send over our portfolio.

If you've been sitting on an idea or have a backlog of features you haven't had the bandwidth to tackle, let's talk.

We're a team of 4 third-year Computer Science students with a unique setup that might be interesting to some of you.

Our university has a structured industry project module where, instead of doing a traditional internship, we register as a private limited company and spend a full academic year (roughly 8 months of active work, accounting for exams and academic commitments) building real products for real clients. Think of it as a dev studio that happens to be embedded in a university.

We're not beginners. We've shipped products before and know what it takes to go from idea to something people actually use.

What we're looking for:

A founder or early-stage team with a product they want built – ideally something meaty enough to keep us engaged for the duration. Could be an MVP, a v2, or a full platform build. We're flexible on scope as long as there's enough to keep us heads-down for the year.

What you get:

- A dedicated team of 4 for ~8 months

- Serious about shipping – we have academic accountability baked in (presentations, progress reviews, documentation)

- Total cost: $25,000–$30,000 for the entire engagement. That's the full team, not per person.

The honest trade-off:

Because this is tied to our university module, there are periodic academic deliverables on our end – presentations, progress reports, etc. These don't affect the quality of what we build, but it's worth knowing upfront. In exchange, you're getting a committed, affordable team that has every incentive to make the product genuinely good.

What we've built:

Happy to share our past work privately. Drop a comment or DM and we'll send over our portfolio.

If you've been sitting on an idea or have a backlog of features you haven't had the bandwidth to tackle, let's talk.

Hey r/founders,

We're a team of 4 third-year Computer Science students with a unique setup that might be interesting to some of you.

Our university has a structured industry project module where, instead of doing a traditional internship, we register as a private limited company and spend a full academic year (roughly 8 months of active work, accounting for exams and academic commitments) building real products for real clients. Think of it as a dev studio that happens to be embedded in a university.

We're not beginners. We've shipped products before and know what it takes to go from idea to something people actually use.

What we're looking for:

A founder or early-stage team with a product they want built – ideally something meaty enough to keep us engaged for the duration. Could be an MVP, a v2, or a full platform build. We're flexible on scope as long as there's enough to keep us heads-down for the year.

What you get:

- A dedicated team of 4 for ~8 months

- Serious about shipping – we have academic accountability baked in (presentations, progress reviews, documentation)

- Total cost: $25,000–$30,000 for the entire engagement. That's the full team, not per person.

The honest trade-off:

Because this is tied to our university module, there are periodic academic deliverables on our end – presentations, progress reports, etc. These don't affect the quality of what we build, but it's worth knowing upfront. In exchange, you're getting a committed, affordable team that has every incentive to make the product genuinely good.

What we've built:

Happy to share our past work privately. Drop a comment or DM and we'll send over our portfolio.

If you've been sitting on an idea or have a backlog of features you haven't had the bandwidth to tackle, let's talk.

I've been closely associated with a company in the Marine Industry for quite some time. They're great at what they do, but a huge chunk of their day disappears into writing formal email replies to customer inquiries. I kept noticing the same problem with other businesses I've worked with.

So I built something to fix it.

Here's the flow:

1. A customer inquiry lands in their inbox
2. The email gets forwarded to their Telegram instantly: sender, subject, full body
3. The owner reads it and replies casually in Telegram. Something like "tell them yes, we have stock, delivery is 3-5 days, ask them to confirm the order."
4. An AI agent rewrites that into a professional formal email
5. The draft gets sent back to them for approval before anything goes out
6. They tap approve, and the email is sent. Done.

The whole thing is built on n8n, Telegram bots, and the Claude API. The approval step was the most important thing to add; nobody wants AI firing off emails on their behalf without a final check.

For businesses with multiple employees, each person gets their own private Telegram chat with the bot. Routing works via Telegram's native reply threading, so there's no confusion about which email you're approving.

The pretty cool part about this is the "informal to formal" layer. People who struggled to write professional English were suddenly responding to international clients with polished, confident emails in seconds.

Happy to answer questions about the build if anyone's curious. Also offering this as a done-for-you setup if any business owners here are interested.

TLDR: Built an automation that converts casual Telegram messages into formal email replies. Saves small business owners 1-2 hours a day. Stack: n8n + Telegram + Claude API.