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Your materials: Proposal + Poster + Video
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Team Name: UPPU
Team Members:
Shreyas Uppalapati (e1354291@u.nus.edu, 8209 1255, Telegram: @shreypalapati)
Vansh Puri (v_puri_03@u.nus.edu, 8156 6280, , Telegram: @benguy6)
Link to Team Poster:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mP1DuK1_I97r65Br-nhjnMSA9JhhT5BM/view?usp=share_link
Link to team video:
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Link to Team proposal:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_0PCQiKEnB9-j6wcNDvPYC4f7g6ze2h6JRxedMHnR8I/edit?usp=sharing
Link to Technical Proof of Concept (Sign up and Login Page):
https://github.com/benguy6/poachcoach-mobile
Dear Mr Jayamurugan,
This is Shreyas from team UPPU. We would be delighted for an opportunity to work with you on the development on our app, PoachCoach. PoachCoach is a mobile application targeted at both those in Singapore who regularly play or want to pick up a sport, as well as coaches who want to offer their services and teach a sport. It aims to bring these two groups together and set up vibrant coach-student communities in a plethora of sports all across Singapore. While there do exist a few other apps that provide similar services in Singapore, like Wow Coach, these apps are not very well-known and lack the location based matching of students and coaches we wish to offer. Moreover, with strong connections in the cricket ecosystem in Singapore, we strongly believe we can first roll out this app and test it among cricket players and coaches in Singapore.
We believe that your experience in payment and spatial map based applications will help us develop key features of our app, such as the integration of payment solutions, such as through stripe/paypal integration, as well as the aforementioned location based matching of students and coaches. We have to to admit that although we do not have much experience in app development, we are actively learning the skills required and are committed to developing this app keeping the best SWE practices in mind. Hence, we hope that you guide us in our journey to make PoachCoach a reality.
Thank You
Hi Santosh !
We’re Declan and Nickson — two passionate NUS undergrads building LegacyLink, a mentorship application.
Nickson is an incoming Y2 Computer Science student who previously developed SwapSphere, a prototype for an NUS online marketplace.
Declan is a Y1 Information Systems student, just wrapped up an internship at Accenture as a Techno-Functional Analyst (AWS & SQL), and has co-founded two ventures:
• Koyoyu Studio – a streetwear distribution company
• A brokerage firm focused on loans, hotels, and small-scale M&A
The idea is simple: connect students to alumni mentors (like yourself!) using smart matching, real-time chat, and integrated scheduling. It’s like dating apps but instead for personal growth — but without the awkward bios and ghosting.We built LegacyLink because we personally struggled to find accessible, relevant mentorship at NUS. Between the maze of Telegram channels, emails, and scattered resources, there wasn’t a simple, intentional space to connect with alumni who actually want to give back.
We’re both super committed to building something meaningful, and we’d love to learn from your experience — especially as someone who’s already volunteered to mentor. Would love if you could take a look at our poster in the google drive folder to check out our proposed tech stack and more details!
Here’s our stuff:
📁 Google Drive Folder (Poster, Proposal, Video) : https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1BWSEsbduKMsEHSo-kafKsrEdw1BG7L8x?usp=sharing
📬 Contact us:
• Declan: declan.sin@u.nus.edu / Telegram: @declanopapiii
• Nickson: e1332806@u.nus.edu / Telegram: @nuisanho
Looking forward to chatting — and maybe even onboarding you as our first in-app mentor !
Cheers,
Declan & Nickson
Team Name: HandyGo
Team Members:
Lim Kai Qing ( e1377031@u.nus.edu, 85011867, Telegram: @gianicelim)
Tan Ee Syuen(e1375658@u.nus.edu, 81224399, Telegram: @eesyuen09)
Link to Team Poster:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cyIpYv3VumMxurNeptFh3jUX_0ZPiMcY/view?usp=share_link
Link to Team Video:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SbTi92a3a1KpfC952Cg_75TrM16OjY1t/view?usp=share_link
Link to Team README:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AEJ59Wtl1yMazNTFBHTzpyfDV1byc0WY/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=109218315587915132968&rtpof=true&sd=true
Link to Repository:
https://github.com/eesyuen09/HandyGo
Hi Mr. Santosh, @"Santosh Jayamurugan"
We are Kai Qing and Ee Syuen from team HandyGo. Your background in engineering leadership and experience building real-world systems at PayPal, IBM, and Infosys strongly resonated with us , especially given your interest in helping teams solve meaningful problems.
HandyGo is an AI-powered service-matching platform designed to help everyday users easily find and book trusted home service providers such as cleaners, electricians, and plumbers. We aim to tackle common challenges in the home services space: pricing uncertainty, poor reliability, and difficulty in accessing skilled providers , especially during urgent situations.
Our platform uses dynamic pricing estimation, smart provider matching, live service tracking, and a dual-sided interface for users and workers. On the backend, we’re building booking and payment modules that require careful design to ensure reliability and fairness. We believe your expertise in microservices, payments, and user experience would be incredibly valuable in helping us design scalable, user-focused features with real impact.
Thank you for considering our request. We’d love the chance to share more about our work and learn from your guidance.
Team Name: Locked In
Team Members:
Chow Bing Hang | e1398132@u.nus.edu | 91459551 | telegram: @binghangc
Emilia Ayu Binti Yuhasnor Affandy | e1355432@u.nus.edu | 98850714 | telegram: @Promist_moon
Proposal:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-2d4GaqELqYWrA8aPJSNTBM4f68SU_Sr/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=104569976377706844444&rtpof=true&sd=true
Poster: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BRcz6Tyw3qR2E_Re8G-QvDblbqcoDwUb/view?usp=sharing
Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AhEVTOxsku1kW5oXogZoK4xiMRnUIKEL/view?usp=drive_link
Technical Proof of Concept: https://github.com/binghangc/Lockbox/tree/dev
Dear Mr Santosh @"Santosh Jayamurugan"
We’re Bing Hang and Emilia from Team Locked In! We created Lockbox, a mobile travel vlogging app that encourages authenticity through time-locked video memories. We want to solve a real problem experienced by modern travelers: today, our most meaningful trip memories get lost in scattered photo dumps, forgotten group chats, or never leave our camera roll at all. Social media pushes us to curate, not preserve and, being caught up in our devices makes us lose the raw, spontaneous, emotional moments that made the trip special. Instead of instant sharing, users respond to curated travel prompts (“vibe checks”) and unlock their footage (“orbs”) only after the trip, preserving the magic of hindsight and unfiltered moments.
We're aiming to craft a visually engaging experience that feels playful and personal, and believe your background in UX design and front-end engineering could help us push this further! Our app incorporates a lot of visual elements, like the animated orbs that glow with emotional reactions and dynamic trip pages with custom templates. We would love your advice in applying modern design principles to build an app that people would constantly return to.
One of our upcoming features involves an interactive memory map, where in the vault users can view the locations they dropped their orbs, allowing users to unfold their memories across places. We’re exploring using Mapbox GL JS and Google Maps SDK to build this spatial layer, and resonated with your expertise in spatial mapping to bring this idea to reality. Your insight would be invaluable in integrating this meaningfully alongside performance considerations.
We’d love to learn from your experience, and believe your interests in spatial mapping, UX design, and Node.js + React.js all align with areas we are actively building in. We hope to learn from you in order to build a production-level MVP that solves a genuine, widely felt problem in a fresh, meaningful way! Thank you for reading!
Team Name: Luck Echoes
Team Members:
Li Kehan (e1356328@u.nus.edu, 8254 0768, @yuzu_k127)
Shang Jiatong (e1356885@u.nus.edu, 9171 8970, @Jiatong_S)
Link to Google Drive containing materials (Poster, Video, Proposal):
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1UxnmEXDt0B_PxbiZ7OtYJBJOWCHFY3-C?usp=sharing
Link to Github Repository (current progress: Homepage, Login/Register, Reset password):
https://github.com/kehan-li2/luck-echoes
Hi Santosh @"Santosh Jayamurugan"
We are Jiatong and Kehan from team Luck Echoes.
Our project, Luck Echoes, is a unique web platform offering daily personalized fortune readings, an interactive virtual pet, and a full e-commerce marketplace, working and utilised vercel for deloyment and prisma for managing our database. We are tackling real-time personalization, user interaction design, and scalable backend architecture.
As two proactive individuals with solid programming experience, we are excited to deepen our skills while having fun building something meaningful. Beyond just a project, we see this as the beginning of a potential startup. We are driven, curious, and committed to turning this idea into something impactful. We would love your guidance to bring it to life!
Team Name:
Team Up, Chow Down
Team Members:
Zhang Zizhong (e0968919@u.nus.edu, Telegram: @zizhongz)
Chen Kexi (e1514321@u.nus.edu Telegram: @Kxc728)
Link to Google Drive (Poster, Video, Proposal):
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LXAiE90PqiFbSFdzLp9NL6aIJCbjGAcW
Github Repository:
https://github.com/zizhongz1/Grabfood-group-ordering/tree/main
Dear Santosh @"Santosh Jayamurugan",
We are excited to introduce you to Xin Hao Fan (新好饭, named after 拼好饭 in China), a platform to match users with similar Grabfood group orders. This enables everyone in the group to save on delivery fees, get discounts, and most importantly: order food they actually want, when they want it.
Our team’s experience spans both technical and business fields. Kexi is a highly committed programmer, who not only scores well consistently in programming modules, but is also doing data science projects in her free time.Zizhong has participated in hackathons in NUS, such as the Singlife Datathon, where he utilised Python, XGBoost and R to match insurance agents with clients. Before college, co-founded Stick’em, a startup providing robotics kits programmed with Arduino to primary schools. He is passionate about developing software that provides value to its users.
We are highly interested in software development, learning new things, and most importantly, eating good food! This will not only be a summer pet project for us; we hope to launch a fully functional service starting with NUS, so everyone can get to enjoy good food at cheaper prices.
Team Name: OweNus
Team Members:
Chellappan Ramiah (e1366701@u.nus.edu, 8118 5048 Telegram: @chellu19)
Sanfo Bimal Thomas (e1408879@u.nus.edu, 9022 2894, Telegram: @san4b)
Link to Google Drive containing materials (Poster, Video, Proposal): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1cmEItUdsKXkBFHR0i3I6HO8LCjdkp-9R?usp=drive_link
Link to Technical Proof of Concept: https://github.com/san4b0t/OweNus
Hi Mr. Santosh @"Santosh Jayamurugan"
Our team, OweNus, is building a blockchain-powered P2P lending platform to address the real-world challenges of informal borrowing among students and young professionals. With your deep expertise in payments systems, microservices, and UX design from your roles at PayPal and IBM, your guidance would be invaluable in helping us refine our platform’s architecture—especially around verification and user experience to ensure scalability and trust. Your passion for solving real-world problems aligns perfectly with our mission to create a transparent, user-friendly financial tool. We’d be honored to learn from your insights and would greatly appreciate the opportunity to connect. We hope to hear from you soon!
Best regards,
Team OweNus (Sanfo and Chellappan)
Team Name: Eleet
Team members:
Xavier Lee Yiheng (e1384457@u.nus.edu, 9273 3137 Telegram: @beefpattymakkau)
Lee Guanghan, Jordan (e1355945@u.nus.edu, 9797 2044, Telegram: @zuodan)
Link to Google Drive (Poster, Video, Proposal): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12t6G_DaudRzwrIrSGv3dMY6JoFicLHRS
Link to Technical Proof of Concept: https://lync-lilac.vercel.app/
Dear Mr. Santosh @"Santosh Jayamurugan",
We are Xavier and Jordan Lee, from team Eleet.
Together, we are looking to develop Lync, a student-centric collaboration platform to solve the productivity challenges NUS students face, integrating essential tools like NUSMods, Canvas, Google Calendar and Telegram into a single, streamlined ecosystem. Much like the seamless payment experiences that PayPal specialises in, we are looking to tackle fragmentation, but for education and project collaboration.
Given your expertise in Node/ReactJS and UX design, we believe we could benefit greatly from your mentorship as they align with the tech stack that we are using for our project. We also believe our mission to streamline academic collaboration and eliminate friction for students directly aligns with your wish to mentor a team that tackles real-world problems with tangible impact.
We would be truly honored to have your guidance as we build Lync, and we are confident that your expertise could help to revolutionise the way students collaborate. We hope to hear from you soon!
Best wishes,
Team Eleet
Jordan and Xavier Lee