Business Munchies ft. Prashant Sharma: Side Project Cohort Based Courses, D2C Brand Exports, Performance Dashboard for Self-Improvement

In today's episode we speak to Prashant Sharma, founder of Build by Skip the Line - a combination of a Cohort Based Course and Bootcamp course that takes people from ideation to launching a side-project that can make them financially independent. One of the most popular side projects launched during the Build Cohort is called LetterHunt which generated more than $2000 in revenue in the first 10 days.

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Obviously, you can see why we invited Prashant to join us on this episode of Business Munchies. At The Indian Dream, we're all about building side projects and that's our goal with Business Munchies - to help people find Side Project ideas.

Since Prashant is passionate about side projects, this episode is a hybrid - the first 15 minutes are about his journey to creating Build and the community around it. After that we discuss 3 side project ideas including:

1. A resource website to help Indian D2C Brands go abroad including regulations for different niches, CA's & lawyers who specialise in international expansion, etc.
2. Another resource website which just lists which TV Shows and Movies are available on the various OTT platforms in India. A sub-idea that came out of this is to make a content website that just provides summaries of the events of popular daily soaps in India.
3. A platform which connects data from your Smartwatch, Computer and other sources to provide a performance dashboard for your personal life.

The 2nd Cohort has just graduated with an incredible bunch of side projects - if you want to join the 3rd Cohort, you can click on this link and sign up.

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Timeline:

(00:00) - Introduction

(01:55) - What was your career journey that led you to creating Build?

(05:25) - What is the difference between a Bootcamp vs. Cohort Based Course?

(07:52) - What is the secret sauce for building a highly engaged community?

(12:45) - Why do you take Coders & non-Coders in the Cohort?

(15:42) - How to think about Side Project ideas

(16:39) - Idea: Resource Website to help D2C brands go international

(22:56) - Idea: Resource Website to find OTT shows 

(29:20) - Idea: Performance Dashboard for Self-Improvement