SHIFTFREE LAUNCH LAB

We're not looking for an intern. We're looking for someone to own a lane.

A 14-week paid startup residency. Real mission. Real users. Your name on what happens.

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3–4 SEATS · 14 WEEKS · $15/HR

Why this is different

No shadowing. No busywork.

You get a mission, a blueprint, AI tools and real support. Then the lane is yours.

What happens in it — good or bad — is on you. We don't expect you to know everything. We expect you to figure things out.

Before ShiftFree, I owned a commercial locksmith, access control, camera, intercom and commercial door company. Years of talking to laundromat owners, in their stores, about what was actually broken. This product was built from that.

Four lanes. Pick yours.

Systems + AI

Find the busywork. Automate it. Prove the hours you saved.

Content + Creative

Turn a confusing product into video people actually watch.

Market + Media

Get us in front of real owners. Earn coverage. Read what the market says back.

Product QA + Testing

Find what's broken before it costs us a customer. Your name on the bug report that mattered.

Roles morph around your talent, not the other way around.

The essentials

14 wks
Duration
~15 hrs
Per week
$15/hr
Paid
Remote
Flexible around class

One weekly team meeting. You and 2–3 other students, run like one startup launch team.

Open to juniors and seniors — strong sophomores considered.

What you deliver

Real work, shipped and used — not a project that sits in a folder.
Weekly progress your team can see and measure.
A final readout: what you owned, what happened, what the numbers say.

What you leave with

Proof. Not a line on a résumé.

Fourteen weeks of work a future employer can actually see — not "I interned somewhere." Something you built, that got used, that moved a number.

Tell us why you're in.

Send three things: your name and major, one thing you've built or made, and why this. Show us something if you've got it.

Connor@shiftfree.net

I'm Connor. I answer my phone. 843-894-0852

3–4 seats. Apply by 10/15. Or reach us through HGTC Career Services.