Hence, these questions and doubts need to be addressed and evaluated effectively. And, the choices you make now are mainly going to shape the rest of your career and consequently life. Thus, it is of extreme importance to get the right information and counselling before heading anywhere. A well-informed student with the organised purpose and expectations ultimately makes big.

Times like these bring into the picture the worth of a mentor. A mentor is a protective guide who listens to you patiently and counsels you with his enormous experience what he thinks suits best to you. As a result, he makes sure you get what you deserve and minimizes the gap between you and your goals.

Also Read: How to Make a Video-Streaming App like Netflix? (Enterprise Mobile App Development)

Who could be the best people to mentor young minds other than people who have already been in the shoes a few years back? The alumni who have already walked the path and know the hurdles; their vast knowledge and perspectives are surely going to help heaps to this generation and more.

Consequently, the big question is to connect the alumni around the world; to fall them within the reach of students and bring their valuable experiences and skills to the table. This gives birth to the idea of mentrio.com.

What Mentrio offers you?

Mentrio is a platform created by the team Engineerbabu with the aim to bridge gap between a mentor and mentee. It is a community that opens a great opportunity for all the mentees to help them find wise words and direction to be guided by noted alumni who are few clicks away.

Therefore, mentors have the opportunity to share their learning and experiences and earn some money in the process.

How to get started?

• The experts can sign up through LinkedIn furnishing basic details like educational qualifications, work experience etc.
• They mark their future availability on the calendar.
• Students who wish to seek expert’s guidance can sign up through Google+, Facebook, LinkedIn or mentrio homepage.
• You can reach to your expertise with the aid of various filters provided.
• Book your date and time well in advance as per the availability of expert. You can book up to two weeks.
• You are required to make payment in dollars.

And, you are done. It’s that easy!

• Booking can be rescheduled or canceled if required. The amount will be refunded if you intimate 24 hours prior to the scheduled time.
• After the completion of the call, you can rate the consultant as per your experience. Your feedback is important to us. It gives us a chance to polish up.
• Lastly, if either of the party does not show up, meeting gets forfeited.

Are you that mentor?

“Show me a successful individual and I’ll show you someone who had real positive influences in his or her life. I don’t care what you do for a living —if you do it well I’m sure there was someone cheering you on or showing the way – a mentor”

–Denzel Washington

You can become a mentor if,

Firstly, you possess natural aptitude and expertise in your discipline and have the willingness to share it with others. Secondly, you ought to be honest and concerned with your mentee and dedicated to delivering. It is an absolute treasure to be capable of giving someone a gift of knowledge.

Being a mentor is an opportunity!

As Winston Churchill said once “We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give”

• Allows you to bring change in young people’s life.
• Benefits you with brushing up your knowledge and learning new things from people while mentoring them.
• It is always good to be updated and refreshed in the company of young people.
• It is an adventurous journey on its own where you meet many people and may end up having some of them your family for life.
• Also an opportunity to earn some money

Mentrio Fund:-

Mentrio fund is formed to support the underprivileged children receive at least the basic level of education. We truly believe in education as the premise of every society, every family. We consider ourselves extremely fortunate to be able to pursue this mission.

Lastly, there has been a partnership with Making A Difference (MAD) Foundation and Karam Foundation in this endeavor. Any money contributed towards Mentrio fund will be completely donated to these foundations. We are determined that no child remains out of school.

Keep the fire burning and spirit high!

To Sum Up…

EduTech industry is witnessing immense technological advancements. It helps education reach to the untouched masses while maintaining the same degree of quality. Consequently, giving us an opportunity to widen up our portfolio. We have a past expereince of working with WitCircle, USkill, VocabGuru and many other startups for the same.

Interested? Just drop a comment in section below. Also, you can drop an email at mayank@engineerbabu.com. Don’t like waiting? CLICK HERE 

Also Read:

• How To Make An eLearning Mobile App Like Khan Academy (Or Udemy)
• A-Z Guide For Developing A MOOC LMS (Like Coursera)
• In 9 Years of Learning, I Saw 500+ Products Failing: Top Reasons Why Startups Fail

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Skype Discussion:-

Client: Mayank, We have a chain of 120 hospitals which we want to automate through the mobile app.
Me: How current management works, hope you must be having an existing management ERP.
Client: Yes! We have a hospital management software that has all the functions we required.
Also, we are using Salesforce and few more complex integration like Inventory, Sales, etc.
Let me send you the demo of our existing web app. We are looking for the same kind of mobile app.
Questions :
Me:Why you want a mobile app?
Client: Client can book services through our App?
Me: What else?
Client: Our Department nurses can see where she needs to visit. We want that our collector (an agent in our hospital who manages all the collections made) can keep track of the requirements. We want to build 4-5 applications for our internal business management and One User application to get more booking.
Me: I am sure you need a client application to publish in their stores (Apple or Google) and Internal Management App download for selected candidates only.
Customer: Yes

Conclusion: He was looking for 4 Applications (Sales Management, Doctor and Patient Communication, Nursing Management, User App).
He did not have any developer account i.e. neither of Android nor of Apple. Also, he wanted to integrate these apps with his existing ERP management system.

Step 1: – Requirement Gathering 

About:
ABC home-care is an unparalleled medical service at patients own home. It brings quality home-care services at patient doorstep without the patient visiting the hospital or clinic. ABC home-care provides well-trained staff for providing personalized services. The services we provide are:

• Attendant
• Nursing
• Pharmacy
• Pathology
• Doctor
• Medical Equipment
• Physiotherapy

Purpose:
The primary purpose of this website & application is aimed to ease access to health care services for the patients and streamlining the operations of ABC home-care. The secondary purpose is to make this business highly autonomous.
A few guidelines to be maintained while developing ABC home-care Website & Mobile App are as follows:

Color Theme Selection:
The color theme to be followed for the app has to be according to the ABC Hospitals brand guidelines. The following color guidelines have to be followed for the Homecare
Mobile App:

Fonts Selection:
Our Fonts should represent the feeling of Care and Healing. Hence, we would like to use Aller fonts for all our brand communication. You can use the following fonts in the app:

For Headline:
Aller(Bold)
Aller (Bold-Italic)

For Sub Headline/Body Copy/Content
Aller (Regular, Normal)
Aller (Light)
Aller light (Normal)
Aller light (Italic)

After The discussion document prepared 

Building Experience Map:



Wireframe Design for Doctor App

The flow of Patient AppTesting Sheet:

Project Management Tool:-
Basecamp is a perfect tool for project management, It helps you to do following things.

1. Manage your project remotely
2. If your co-founders or partners are located in a different city or country they will also know the progress of development.
3. You can group chat with Designer, Developer or anyone who is a part of the project.
4. It helps to keep project communication on one page. This makes it easy for everyone to keep track of the ongoing project.
5. You will be notified when you get new features.
6. You can also comment, add reference files if you have any suggestions for development or design.

Client’s testimonial:

You can directly talk to us, or leave us an email at mayank@engineerbabu.com.

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“If your business is not on the internet, then your business will be out of business”

– Bill Gates, Founder of Microsoft

In this fast-moving world, websites and mobile applications hold the topmost pitch in the business growth. They help in conveying the products and services of the companies to their prospective clients in the most effective way. They are the face of any business and more often the heart. You cannot go about thinking to accost the best sales, users or clients without having the sound portfolio in the form of an excellent mobile application or website.

Similarly, the content plays a very crucial role in business expansion. You need to inform about your work to the right people in a persuasive way wherever they are. The content in your professional blogs, websites or any guest posts should convey your thoughts, ideas, insight, and knowledge in a simple yet compelling manner. Good content presented in a readable format does wonder.

But what if you have a highly sophisticated website designed and developed by the incredibly talented people and yet out of reach of targeted readers? Even with the innovative product, how do you justify no traffic?

What’s wrong here?

Can you guess?
Yes! The digital marketing is the ‘heroine’ of any growing business in the present scenario. It knows how to attract people. There is no chance a business can grow in a fully fledged manner without exploiting the complete potential of digital marketing tools. You have to have the access to the world-class SEOs and SMMs to bring the reach of your product to the larger crowd.
Otherwise, you know the fate of documentary movies. No matter how great the director, screenplay, actors are, it cannot come at par with commercial cinema in business because it lacks massive launching, promotions, teasers, marketing, and another such tact.
It is need of the hour. Even the conventional businesses are now adapting to these new
mediums to keep up with the cut-throat competition.

Thus, it becomes highly important to ensure that your websites and apps are designed and developed on the right platform using appropriate technologies with superior talents to pour ideas and market it.

Best Way to find Freelancers

Businesses and individuals often approach freelancers to outsource their IT needs.
Outsourcing projects help companies in many ways:
1) Cost Saving: Getting projects developed from freelancer/remote team is effectively cost saving than getting them designed by in-house team as then you have to provide them fully functional office looking after their refreshments, taxes, cash-on-leaves etc or via agency where huge commissions are involved with apparently more fees, lesser transparency and no direct involvement with the developer.
2) World Class Talent: You can easily access the top talent around the world without much effort and movement.
3) Flexibility: It is an easy and relieving experience to give charge of the work to the experts and forget about it as they will take care of the rest. Unlike in-house team where you need to keep them motivated and busy, freelancers keep themselves self-motivated and active.
Upwork is one big name in the freelance market that has been around for 10+ years.
Even if you are naïve in this domain, you still have heard the name at some point. With the growing irrelevant crowd on the website and ever-increasing unacknowledged issues, the site has recently lost its credibility both towards clients and developers.
As they say, you need to keep updating your product if you want to survive in the IT industry else you gradually disappear from the game.
Filtering desirable freelancers from websites like Upwork is a laborious job and highly unreliable way of getting work done. Here the success rate is not 100%.
You may succeed in finding the right developer for your idea but there are high chances you end up getting bluffed and betrayed. This often results in handing over your project to some other freelancer and having to pay extra charges thereafter.

Let us understand this problem in a more fundamental way:
1) Let’s say you post a project.
2) Some 30+ freelancers apply for it. Some of them do not even check the essentials required like skills, qualifications etc
3) The best freelancers still did not apply as they are already over-packed with the existing work.
4) People displaying false experiences and skills is a well-known phenomenon.
5) After 10 days of analysis to find the best developer, you select the one with the best score (someone who has the better ranking, good rates, and good reviews).
6) What if it is an agency which takes the work from you and again outsources to someone else? You would not be able to interact with the developer directly.
7) Most of the freelancers work full time in other companies. They take up extra work as a freelancer to earn some quick money.
They would never spend enough time checking the environment, understanding the client’s requirement and guiding them through the best-customized approach to get work done.
8) Finally, what if the developer does not pick your call or leave the project incomplete?
Yes, Upwork does have a rating system but there is no real way to confirm if the developer you hire is trustworthy and dedicated towards the work and also it does not assure the communication ease of the freelancer.
Even on investing 10-12 days in selecting the right candidate to accomplish your task, you could still choose the wrong person, not deliberately but by mere less awareness and transparency.
Websites like upwork are often criticized for this big downside. People become victims to these fraud profiles and end up spending more money than their initial budget.

What’s the solution?                
In the midst of this chaos, few companies worked hard to rectify issues faced with upwork and came up with the outstanding products.
EngineerBabu:
How about if you have someone who does all the analysis of your project and guides you find the expert developer to meet all the requirements and get the work done in the best possible way?
That’s EngineerBabu!

EngineerBabu is an Indian company that helps in connecting the perfect partner for all your IT needs with the aid of domain experts.
It basically reduces your days of efforts required in filtering the right candidate. It curates highly skilled people from all over the places and gets you handpicked experts to work for your dream.
Removing the wheat from the chaff is a work in itself.
Businesses opting to this website are often startups or SME’s looking to grow flexibly by hiring freelancers to handle projects rather than in-house or via agencies.
They operate as part of what has become “talent cloud” with hundreds of freelancers offering a range of skills in a flexible and efficient basis.
They also promote the benefits of freelancing and remote team as a means to allow people to work more freely in the environment that suits them best.
It provides resources for new and growing businesses and for those who are looking to build a career as a freelancer.
How EngineerBabu helps you to find the perfect IT partner

Here are the best alternatives we consider –

For the Freelancers or IT Company:

1. Create a profile and go through verification.
2. After you are verified, choose projects matching your skills.
3. If you are a paid plan user, you can directly apply and the client will get a notification.
4. We help clients choose a developer and connect them over email.
5. You can also work in-house.

For the client:

1) Engineerbabu team discusses the idea with the client taking down their requirements. (Technology, scope, budget etc)
2) It connects the developer with a client over email for further developments.
There is no bidding system as we provide the best options appropriate for the project. We avoid unnecessary time consumption with bidding process where large numbers of people send proposals and most of them are not even eligible.
3) The team takes follow-ups both from the client and developer from time to time to know the progress.
4) The client can keep the check on the development and progress of the project through our free project management tool “BaseCamp”.
5) Engineerbabu experts spend a lot of time in testing the product and further plan strategies for its promotion.
6) People seem happy and satisfied with the process.

Guru.com:

Based in the US, Guru.com is yet another global freelancing marketplace for freelance workers and employers to partner on a contract basis. It is fairly easy to use with around 1.5 million members worldwide.
How Guru.com helps you:

1) Guru offers a vast network of freelancers to help you accomplish your creative, technical or business projects.
2) Here you are allowed as a freelancer to bid for the certain number of projects for free. After a while, you will have to switch to a paid membership.
3) It is free for the employer, thus in favor of clients.
4) The portal charges a fee from freelancers in the form of transaction fee and membership fee which are quite hefty.
5) Like many other sites with plenty of freelancers, clients have to take the pain to filter the suitable candidate from a large number of proposals.
6) You select a freelancer by evaluating their profile on the basis of reviews, recommendations, testimonials etc.
7)  Guru has an inbuilt project management tool called “Work Room” where you can assign work to the freelancer, keep a check on the progress, share files, define milestones etc.
8) Another good part of this site is it uses the system called “SafePay” which makes sure that you do any payment only after you approve of the project.
PeoplePerHour:

PeoplePerHour is a UK based company that provides a platform for thousands of freelance experts in hundreds of different fields.
As a leading marketplace to find freelancers, jobs can be availed on an hourly basis and can be ramped up as needed to build the whole team online, thus this model is scalable up to the global enterprise.
How PeoplePerHour helps you:
1) Here you get a choice to select from entry-level experience to expert level freelancer.
The prices are fairly reasonable. It is advisable to pick expert freelancer every time as you would find quality skills set only with the experts here.
2) You have to use filters here to opt according to your parameters such as country, experience level, project type etc
It is advisable to wait for the good proposal to arrive. Due to the availability of plenty of freelancers, it happens that many of them apply without checking the details. Thus, it is advantageous to wait and get completely satisfied before handing over your project.
3) It offers various options to be in touch with a freelancer including an inbuilt video calling feature.
4) It has a little-complicated interface which might trouble you in the beginning.
5) Payment needs to be deposited in PeoplePerHour account right when you accept the proposal. Money is held in the escrow and is released as soon as you approve the project.
6) If for any reason, the client cancels the deal, he will be charged 10% of the fee.

Fiverr:

How Fiverr helps you:

1) Fiverr got its name from “five dollar” where every service and task accounts for $5 as their base price.
2) It is the global online market for freelancers and companies to provide their services at much cheaper prices.
3) As the prices are low, so is the quality. You can still get the simple tasks like business card designing, HTML website designing and others done.
4) It is good when you want the product to be developed without much complexity, innovation and quality.
5) It is suitable for very small businesses where work is required to be done very quickly without much detailing.
I hope you find a suitable freelancer according to the need of your project. Some tips that may come handy while taking your decision.
 
“The master has failed more times than the beginner has ever tried”
                                                                                                              – Stephen McCranie

1) Always choose experienced people over newbie, it definitely helps in the long-term relationship.
 
“Quality is the best business plan” – John Lasseter

2) All companies have a development budget, and it is understandable to work within that budget. However, you should never let price alone drive your choices. Let the product and the quality of the developer’s work determine who you hire. A quality product is a brand in itself and branding comes with a price.
3) Get NDA signed before sharing your idea. The NDA form is available in Google or you can ask your developer to share his NDA template.
NDA terms are;

• Not to share your code
• Reuse your code
• Can’t work on similar domain or idea for 2 years
• Can’t work with your competitor
• Company or the employees cannot start another company using your idea or its piece.

4) Ask for the portfolio before hiring anyone. In the samples provided, check for the user interface and evaluate the expertise of the developer and team.
5) You can also ask the contact numbers of previous clients of the concerned freelancer/developer. It will help you to know about the quality of work delivered, work ethics, time management etc.

A reliable and an intelligent freelancer is the ultimate requirement of any project.  I hope you find your desirable one keeping these points in mind.

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What was the problem and Why we started?

Freelancing is a fundamentally wrong way for a successful project, It’s there must be a smarter way to find one.

 Let me explain it to you

1. You post your project
2. 30+ Freelancers apply without checking details of your project.
3. Best freelancer still didn’t apply to your project because he is already overpacked with existing work.
4. After 10 days of analysis to find the best developer, you select the one with the best score (Someone who has a better ranking, good rates, and good feedbacks).
5. What if that freelancer takes work from you and outsources to someone else?
6. Most freelancers work full-time in other companies.
7. Freelancers don’t spend enough time checking your requirement, understanding the doc and guiding what is the right approach to get work done.
8. Have you ever seen any freelancers, Helping you write user stories, sending grunt chats and Creating mockups?
9. Entrepreneur spent a lot of time taking follow-ups, testing the product, taking suggestions from other apps or friends than planning strategies to promote the app.
10. After all, this what if freelancer didn’t pick up your call or left the project incomplete.

How EngineerBabu helps you to find a perfect partner (Clients or Developer)

For the Freelancers or Team

Step 1: Create your profile
Step 2: See if you find any projects matching with your need
Step 3: If you are paid plan user, you can directly apply and the client will get a notification.
Step 4: We are also helping clients, and Developers to connect with each other but with the following criteria.

1. We discuss with clients, taking their requirement (Scope and Budget).

2. Then we are connecting them over email from now

3. We take follow-ups from clients and Developers to know the progress.

We get both positive and negative feedbacks from our clients.

People are happy with our Process

Developers are getting Paid without focusing on Sales

Here is His review for Server work https://www.g2crowd.com/products/engineerbabu/reviews

These are the list of deals we cracked recently. 

Thanks for suggestions.

This coming week, we are trying to focus and improvise few things:

1. Customer Support, This week we have 4 Days holidays Due to Holi, our employees were on leave for 4 days.
2. More projects

We have written the following Article that reached almost 12,600 Likes over Linkedin

Indian Developers are Not Good in India but When they reach the USA they become Google & Microsoft CEO.

Your friend Mayank at EngineerBabu.

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