Join ScholarBase

An honest offer: we can't pay you — yet. But we can teach you skills your first job probably won't.

Let's Be Honest With You

ScholarBase is a fully open-source platform — built for the community, by the community. Our entire codebase is public on GitHub, and we don't run ads, we don't charge users, and we don't have investors.

That's exactly why, quite simply: we can't pay you right now. There is no revenue behind this platform — by design. It exists to serve scholars, not to earn from them.

What we can offer is something far more valuable for your early journey: the opportunity to learn how a real platform grows and how real software is tested — hands-on, with mentorship, and with your name on the results.

Pick Your Track

Three ways to grow with us — and with your own career.

Growth & Marketing

Learn how to market a platform to its potential users

You'll take ScholarBase to the people it was built for — scholar by scholar, university by university. Campus by campus, community by community, you'll figure out what makes academics care, sign up, and stay. Along the way you'll learn:

•How to identify and understand a platform's potential users — researchers, PhD aspirants, professors — and speak their language.
•Community-led growth: reaching scholars one scholar at a time, and universities one campus at a time.
•Writing content and campaigns that actually convert, and measuring what worked with real analytics.
•Positioning, storytelling, and how a zero-budget product competes for attention.

Testing & Quality Assurance

Learn how professionals find every bug, in every corner

You'll put ScholarBase through every scenario a real user could throw at it — and plenty they shouldn't. Our developers will know about every teeny-tiny bug in every corner before our users ever find them. Along the way you'll learn:

•Structured exploratory testing — hunting every teeny-tiny bug hiding in every corner of the product.
•Thinking in edge cases: empty states, slow networks, weird inputs, timezone traps, and every scenario users didn't read the manual for.
•Writing clear, reproducible bug reports that developers love — with steps, evidence, and severity.
•Working directly with developers to reproduce, isolate, and verify fixes until quality is airtight.

Research & Curation

Find verified opportunities and build the directories scholars rely on

You'll grow ScholarBase's most valuable asset: trustworthy information. That means finding and verifying opportunities in admissions, vacancies, events, and results, and building our directories — PhD supervisors, research grants, research tools, the learning zone, and research journals — so scholars everywhere get one reliable place for everything academic. Along the way you'll learn:

•How to hunt down and verify genuine opportunities — PhD admissions, research vacancies, academic events, and exam results — from official sources only.
•Fact-checking discipline: cross-referencing deadlines, eligibility, and links so scholars never chase stale or fake opportunities.
•Building structured directories — PhD supervisors, research grants, research tools, the learning zone, and research journals — entry by verified entry.
•Organising academic information the way scholars actually search for it, so ScholarBase becomes the first place they check.

What You'll Get Instead of a Paycheck

Real Platform, Real Users

Skip the toy projects. Everything you do — campaigns, curated listings, bug reports — happens on a live, open-source platform used by scholars around the world, and your contributions are public for everyone to see.

Skills Employers Actually Ask For

Growth marketing, quality assurance, and research curation are three of the most in-demand, hard-to-teach skills. You'll learn them by doing, not by watching tutorials.

Mentorship & Honest Feedback

Every experiment, campaign, and bug report gets detailed feedback. You'll learn the why behind every decision, not just the what.

Visible Impact You Can Claim

Grew signups from a new campus? Caught a critical bug before launch? That's a measurable, interview-ready achievement with your name on it.

Who We're Looking For

Students, fresh graduates, and early-career folks who want to break into growth marketing or software QA. We don't care much about your degree or your college name — we care about:

•Curiosity — you wonder why people do what they do, or why things break the way they break.
•Ownership — when you take something on, you see it through.
•A few hours a week — flexible and remote; consistency matters more than intensity.

Ready to Grow With Us?

Send your CV to connect@scholarbase.app with the subject line "Joining ScholarBase".

Along with your CV, tell us one thing: which of the three tracks do you want, and how would you use it to grow ScholarBase? A campus you'd start with, a community you'd reach, or the first corner of the app you'd tear apart looking for bugs — we want to see how you think.

Send Your CV

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