Two groups: early-stage startups that need focused engineering work without the cost of a full-time hire, and engineering students who want real project experience and income before they graduate.

You do, always. Every project includes an IP assignment agreement ensuring full ownership of all delivered work stays with the startup.

How are students vetted?

Every student goes through a profile review covering skills, academic background, and prior work. Ratings from completed projects are visible to startups before they match.

Match4U is Ten4Teen's hands-on matching service. Instead of browsing profiles yourself, you tell us what you need and our team makes a curated introduction within 48 hours — guaranteed.

Is Ten4Teen free for students?

Yes. Students join, build a profile, and apply to projects at zero cost.

How much does Ten4Teen cost for startups?

Ten4Teen offers flexible pricing for startups, with affordable micro-project based plans. Startups only pay for the work they need — no retainers or full-time commitments required.

How fast can I get matched with a student engineer?

With Match4U, Ten4Teen guarantees a curated engineer introduction within 48 hours of submitting your project requirements.

What kind of projects can I post on Ten4Teen?

Ten4Teen is designed for real micro-projects — focused, scoped engineering tasks like building a feature, creating an API, setting up automation, data analysis, or MVP development. Projects should be deliverable within a few weeks.

Ten4Teen: Student Engineers for Indian Startups

Two stories play out across India every day.

In one, a founder stares at a half-built product. The full-time engineer they need costs ₹80K+/month. Freelance platforms feel like a coin flip. The "perfect hire" is 3–6 months away. Meanwhile, runway shortens. Competitors ship.

In the other, a brilliant engineering student is wrapping up their fifth college project — a project nobody will ever use. They're capable. They're hungry. They want to build something real — with users, deadlines, code reviews, and yes, a paycheck. Internships pay in T-shirts. The bridge to real work doesn't exist.

So we built the bridge.

What we actually do

We match early-stage Indian startups with vetted student engineers across six disciplines — for real, scoped micro-projects.

Not a job board. Not a freelance free-for-all. A curated talent network that handles vetting, matching, contracts, and IP — so founders ship faster and students walk away with a portfolio that actually moves the needle in interviews.

Two sides, one promise

Founders → Post a scope. Get matched in 48 hours. Ship in 2–4 weeks. Pay only when the project completes. IP yours from day one. 15% platform fee. No retainers, no surprises.

Students → Sign up free. Get vetted. Browse live projects. Apply in one click. Build production code for real founders. Get paid in full. Walk into your next interview with proof.

How it works, in 5 steps

Sign up — founder or student, two minutes.
Choose — browse the pool yourself, or hand it to us.
Match4U — tell us what you need; we deliver in 48 hours, guaranteed.
Build — milestones, chat, structured feedback, full IP.
Ship. Then do it again.

Why now

India's best engineering talent is sitting in colleges right now — ready to build, eager to ship. India's fastest-growing startups can't afford to wait six months and ₹80K/month to find them.

The gap was always real. The connection was missing.

Not anymore.

Ready to meet your match?

Get started at ten4teen.in → — or just email us at hello@ten4teen.in and tell us what you're building (or what you want to build). We'll take it from there.

— The Ten4Teen team