Students
Your project ends with the semester and nobody outside the jury ever sees it.
Good work needs the right people around it. Find yours.
The people, problems and projects your work has been missing are already out there. Offgrid is where students, industry and academia find each other through real work and real problems.
Most good work dies quietly.
Businesses
You need fresh ideas and people who can act on them, but the usual channels hand you resumes and agency quotes, not new thinking.
Academia
Your work stops at a paper instead of becoming something real, and years of experience stay limited to classrooms.
Different for each of you. Because you're not here for the same thing.
For Students
Your work finally has an audience.
Post your projects and get discovered by people who care. Work on real problems from industry and academia. And find the collaborator your project was missing — the developer, the designer, the researcher who thinks nothing like you.
For Industry
Fresh thinking on your real problems.
Without the agency bill or the full-time hire. Put a problem in front of curious people who show up because they want to. And discover what students are already building that lines up with where you want to go next.
For Academia
A path for your work beyond the paper.
Share your research problems and open questions with students actively looking for something worth doing. They pick it up, push it, and bring it back further than it started.
Students
Your work finally gets an audience.
Post your projects and get discovered by people who care. Work on real problems from industry and academia. And find the collaborator your project was missing — the developer, the designer, the researcher who thinks nothing like you.
Your project ends with the semester and nobody outside the jury ever sees it.
Industry
Fresh thinking on your real problems.
Without the agency bill or the full-time hire. Put a problem in front of curious people who show up because they want to. And discover what students are already building that lines up with where you want to go next.
You need fresh ideas and people who can act on them, but the usual channels hand you resumes and agency quotes, not new thinking.
Academia
A path for your work beyond the paper.
Share your research problems and open questions with students actively looking for something worth doing. They pick it up, push it, and bring it back further than it started.
Your work stops at a paper instead of becoming something real, and years of experience stay limited to classrooms.
Swipe to explore
Not a job board. Not a portfolio site. Not a marketplace. A network where work is how people find each other.
That grid fills the gap.
The reason for you to be on the grid. The founding group shapes Offgrid from the start.
The sooner you join, the better your shot at the founding group. We're bringing on our first few members and picking for a healthy balance across students, industry and academia, so the network feels whole from day one. Get on the list, tell us who you are, and put yourself in the best position to be one of them.
The grid opens soon
Reach out. We'll meet you there.
Wherever you're starting from — student, industry or academia — get on the list and be one of the first on the grid.