For more information about @"Marcus Leow", please refer to https://soc-n.us/orbital25-mentorship (Search for "TW-3")
If you would like to be mentored by him, please add a reply below, with the following details:
Your particulars: Team name + Student name + Contact method (Email and other messaging tools)
Your materials: Proposal + Poster + Video
A personalized message: (e.g., why should the mentor pick your team?)
Hi Marcus !
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: LearNUS
Team Members:
Tan Jay (e1430630@u.nus.edu, 9865 0969, Telegram: @jayt_25)
Lim Zi Yong (e1375760@u.nus.edu, 9019 1786, Telegram: @ylzy1611)
We have save our materials (Poster, Video, Proposal and current Technical Proof of Concept) in this Google Drive folder, kindly take a look!
Link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1MYTmvrC4wW-P365VViTsox1WPb41EoN8?usp=drive_link
@"Marcus Leow"
Hi Mr Marcus, we are Tan Jay and Lim Zi Yong, two students who are currently working on LearNUS—a peer-to-peer tutoring platform designed to empower students by making academic support more accessible, personalized, and community-driven.
While we don’t come from a background with strong prior experience in building startups or tech products, however we bring with us something more valuable: a deep curiosity, strong collaboration, and an eagerness to learn and grow through this journey. We're driven by the belief that building a community where students can help each other succeed, which leads us to this product.
LearNUS aims to connect students who need help with those who can offer it—through features like module-based tutor search, real-time session bookings, messaging, ratings and reviews, and gamified community engagement. It's a platform for students, by students, and we’re committed to making it truly impactful. Too often, academic help is either too formal, expensive, or impersonal. On the other hand, many students are highly capable and willing to help each other, but lack a structured, trusted platform to connect and offer their time. We believe LearNUS fills that gap.
We're seeking guidance from experienced individuals who can help us shape LearNUS into a well-rounded, scalable platform. Your expertise would mean a lot to us, helping us think long-term and stay grounded in building something meaningful and impactful!
We’re super excited about the possibility of being mentored by you and learning from your experience. We’re confident that with your guidance, we can push LearNUS to reach its full potential!
Hi Marcus!
We are Kah Ho and Marcus from team Beyond, and we would like to work together with you to bring our app Bites to fruition. Bites is the solution to a problem we all have faced, that being struggling to find food and having to scroll endlessly to find new restaurants.
From LinkedIn, we find that your extensive experience in Marketnode and Thoughtworks is highly suitable as an aid for us with your previous projects on web apps and development. We believe that working together with us on this app will be a meaningful experience for you as well since it serves as a novel project which explores the social media environment and solves a problem which we commonly face.
We are looking forward to your reply and are excited to work with you soon. Attached below are our relevant details.
Thank you
Team Name: Beyond
Team Members:
Swee Kah Ho (Email: e1398876@u.nus.edu, Telegram: @kahkoii)
Marcus Leong Hoy Kitt (Email: e1354195@u.nus.edu, Telegram: @Marcus_Leong)
Link to Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HxjedpymnXTm2blZAu_r-3VJvBiMcwFp?usp=sharing
Team Name: RoamWise
Team Members:
Roger Lim Bo Zu (e1375499@u.nus.edu, Telegram: @rrrabz)
Tey Yee Siang (e1375591@u.nus.edu, Telegram: @ystey0808)
Link to Google Drive (Poster, Video, Proposal): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1OgVr_ZSrFF209_zivIxecglXV_WdajDc?usp=drive_link
Github Repository: https://github.com/meowzz28/roamwise-orbital
Hi @"Marcus Leow",
Our team is building RoamWise, a travel planning web application using React, TypeScript, Firebase and other technologies that brings together AI-powered itineraries, budget tracking, collaborative planning and community forums to simplify how people plan their trips and create a platform for travel enthusiasts to connect and share.
As a team, we’re deeply motivated and excited to grow not just as developers, but as thoughtful builders of real-world products. We’re eager to learn and apply software engineering best practices from clean architecture and scalable design to effective collaboration and code quality. We're also keen to explore and pick up new technologies that can make our app more robust and impactful.
We believe your interests in software engineering and maintaining best software practices align closely with our goals, and we’d be incredibly grateful to learn from your insights. Your mentorship would guide us in making better technical decisions, learn real world software engineering practices and help us mature as software engineers.
We’re open, proactive, and ready to put in the work to make the most of this opportunity. Thank you for considering us!
Team Name: Lyst
Team Members:
• Jasper Ang (A0309215L@u.nus.edu) Telegram: @p1chu1
• Jeric Tan (A0308977J@u.nus.edu)
Link to Google Drive (Poster, Video, Proposal): https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1XNS1xwB7jwAFQiUw8fyNOTUmtD_ih4wT
Hi Marcus!
We are Jasper Ang and Jeric Tan from Team Lyst, and we’d love to work with you to bring our relationship-management app, Lyst, to life. We want Lyst to be an AI-powered relationship management app, that acts as a centralised platform for all your relationship needs, and automatically plans date routes, making intimacy and spontaneity convenient. We created this knowing that managing and planning for relationships can be stressful, particularly for busy university students balancing academics, extracurricular activities, and personal life.
With your background as a Consultant/Developer and your expertise software engineering best practices, we believe your mentorship would be invaluable in architecting a scalable codebase and ensuring a polished user experience. Your passion for learning new languages and photography tells us that you are someone who values detail and quality, and that is something that really aligns with the both of us and our vision for our app.
(I'm (Jasper) personally really interested in linguistics too and even took a linguistics mod this sem, and Jeric is a photographer too!)
You can view our credentials and programming experience in our proposal, and I think it sufficiently reflects our drive and motivation to self-learn and create products. We look forward to the chance to collaborate and learn from your experience!
Thank you for considering our request. We look forward to hearing from you soon!
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 Marcus @"Marcus Leow",
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: ByteBites
Team ID: 7043
☎️Team Members:
📃Link to Google Drive containing materials (Poster, Video, Proposal):
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ze4yoGFFTjl0U6MT3fiSAkAVfGyD5qCf
📃Link to Github Repository:
https://github.com/Xingchen722/ByteBites.git
(Current progress: Login, Singup, Homepage)
Hi Mr Marcus
@"Marcus Leow"
We are Xingchen and Yangjie two incoming Y2 Computer Science students. We’d love to invite you to collaborate with us on our project. ByteBites is an intelligent campus dining assistant application specially designed for NUS students. It integrates real-time queue information, menus, prices, nutritional tags, user reviews, and operating hours from various campus canteens, helping students make quick, convenient, and healthy dining decisions. At the same time, food stall operators can improve their offerings based on user feedback, enhancing the overall dining experience.
We believe our project ByteBites aligns very well with your interests and expertise in software engineering and Java development. Our project emphasizes clean code, modular architecture, and maintainability. As a passionate and eager-to-learn team, we not only aim to build a useful product but also to improve our engineering skills through this process — actively applying principles such as version control, testing, and clear system design.
We strongly resonate with the spirit of continuous learning and joyful development, and we would love the opportunity to grow under the guidance of a mentor who shares this mindset. It would be a true honor to have your mentorship, and we believe it would make a significant difference in our technical and personal growth as developers.
Hi @"Declan Sin" , @"Nickson Ho " @"Tan Jay" @"Lim Zi Yong" @"Swee Kah Ho" @"Marcus Leong Hoy Kitt" @"Roger Lim Bo Zu" @"Tey Yee Siang" @"Ang Guan Yu Jasper" @"Jeric Tan Wee Jin" @"Shang Jiatong" @"Li Kehan" @"Guo Xingchen" @"Dai Yangjie"
First of all, thank you all for reaching out to me requesting my mentorship. I will try my best to go through your design documents and proposals (and for those who provided a github repo link, to clone and test out your POC). Ideally, I would like to provide guidance to everyone here, but with limited time, resources and the overwhelming response, I can only pick 1 team to mentor.
Once I have selected a team, I will reach out and see if conditions are right to match (i.e. you haven't already accepted any offer from other mentors) and then we'll probably set up a zoom call/meet in person. I am quite flexible when it comes to such arrangements, we just have to all agree on a format.
Regards,
Marcus