2022.09 · Founder · Lead · Full-stack
Enter
Part community, part product — a place for university-student engineers across Japan to connect beyond their own specialisms. Discord-run operations on one side, a members' platform built in React / Next.js / Laravel / Go on the other, both folded into one idea: connect, build, grow, learn.
It started from a conversation with a friend about building a mobile app. I wanted a place where student engineers from all over the country — not just front-end people, but everyone with their own specialism — could connect sideways. Enter was my attempt to take the four walls I'd run into when I first started — information you never get unless you go hunting, no peers nearby who care about the same things, few chances to meet others, and not enough hands-on room to actually grow — and dismantle them structurally, through community design and product, rather than sheer willpower.
The operating principle was deliberately simple: connect, build, grow, learn. I put Discord at the centre of operations and designed the whole thing as one funnel — channel layout, onboarding, event flow. Five of us ran it, and membership grew to twenty-four within a few months of launch (as of December 2022). The size mattered less to me than the loop: how to design events, knowledge sharing and loose chatter so they amplified each other instead of competing for the same attention.
I built the product in two layers on purpose. A landing page went up fast in HTML, SASS, JavaScript and jQuery to plant the flag, while underneath it I built the real members' platform properly — a React, Next.js and TypeScript front end on a Laravel and Go back end. The point was not to let it stay a student side-project, but to stand it up as a genuinely modern full-stack service that could carry real usage.
Every feature was just "the thing I wished existed when I was a student," made real: fully customisable profile pages as an engineer's calling card, an AtCoder integration that pulled in ratings and turned them into a live ranking, curated internship listings aimed at current students, a board for pitching the business ideas you were sitting on, and matching to nudge members toward each other. The plan was to layer these in over time and fold the whole arc — meet your peers, build with them, grow alongside them — into a single service.