Built, not born.
For students and self-taught developers. Pick one of six tracks, build production-style projects in a pod of up to six, and learn to lead with help from volunteer mentors.
What it costs
Bootcamps and paid courses often cost thousands of dollars. Branchout charges students nothing, and signing up doesn’t ask for a card.
Every track shares the same foundations, then branches into its own stack and project brief. Switch whenever your goals change. It costs nothing.
Branchout is an educational program, not a job. It does not promise employment, income or academic credit. How the program is structured.
Create a free account, choose your track and start at your own pace. No card needed, and you can pause or leave at any time.
We’re building a free, self-paced sandbox that’s open to any student, whatever they can afford.
Every track ends in a project brief like this one, modelled on a real startup problem, and your pod hands in a working product. Briefs are for learning: the work is yours, it isn’t done for any company, and it isn’t paid.
Project brief · Full-Stack Web
Build the internal dashboard a small startup would use to track sign-ups and revenue: authenticated users, a Postgres-backed API, charts, and filters that stay fast as the data grows.
Example hand-in
An illustration of the format, not a real student’s project.
No. Branchout is an unpaid, educational program built for learning and building a portfolio. It does not promise a job, income or academic credit.
There is no minimum. A few focused hours a week is enough to make steady progress, and you can do more when you have time. You set the pace.
Start with the first stage, Plant roots. You begin at your current level, and you join a pod of students at a similar stage when you are ready for a project.
