majaku
Small. Fast. Real.
We ship products in 8-12 weeks.
Some become startups.
Some become businesses.
All of them are real.
What majaku Does
Most incubators talk about ideas. We ship products.
Every 8-12 weeks, we build, launch, and test a new product — AI tools, mobile apps, web systems, games. Some become startups. Some generate revenue. Some fail. All of them teach us something.
We're not here to write pitch decks. We're here to build things that work.
Where traditional incubators focus on fundraising and pitch decks, majaku focuses on execution density — the number of functional, deployable projects that can be tested in a year. Every iteration teaches the team something valuable about markets, mechanics, or user behavior.
How We Operate
We hire developers from coding bootcamps worldwide. We put them to work building real products. We ship something new every 8-12 weeks.
This creates a virtuous cycle:
- → Developers get real experience (not mock projects)
- → Schools get placement success (not unemployed graduates)
- → We get products shipped (not just ideas)
- → Clients get MVPs built (fast and affordable)
Each participant becomes part of a rotating, high-learning network where skill, speed, and creativity are valued over seniority or credentials. This model allows majaku to discover and mentor raw talent while producing actual shipped products at a fraction of the cost and time of traditional development cycles.
On the business side, majaku operates as a self-directed venture lab, building its own products.
Profits and client projects help fund ongoing internal experiments, creating a closed-loop system of creativity, employment, and innovation.
For Schools and Training Programs
majaku provides a practical off-ramp for educational institutions struggling with job placement outcomes. Coding schools and creative academies often train capable graduates but lack the industrial pipeline to transition them into meaningful work.
majaku solves this by offering these institutions a structured employment bridge:
Graduates are hired into short-term, real-world projects under professional management.
Their work directly contributes to market-ready products rather than mock assignments.
The experience provides both portfolio value and employment credibility.
The schools can showcase genuine post-graduation employment success.
This transforms the typical "graduate-to-job" bottleneck into a dynamic, cyclical talent ecosystem. Students move from education → project-based work → startup culture → independent employment — a continuum of real, creative output rather than abstract training.
School Partnership Program
Partner with majaku to bridge graduates into paid, real-world project sprints. Institutions fund placements; we deliver outcomes.
How It Works
Program Enrollment (School-funded)
Your institution sponsors a cohort into majaku sprints. We scope placements and timelines together.
Candidate Selection
You nominate graduates who meet baseline technical and professional standards.
Paid Sprint Placement
Candidates work 8–12 weeks on real products under professional mentorship, with defined deliverables and reporting.
Outcomes & Reporting
We provide portfolio assets, performance summaries, and placement-ready references for each participant.
About the Founder
majaku is led by Christopher Shelley, a software developer and educator who's spent 20+ years building products and teaching people how to actually code — not just memorize frameworks.
After teaching hundreds of developers across Europe and Southeast Asia, Christopher noticed a pattern: bootcamps produce capable graduates, but there's no bridge from “completed coursework” to “employed developer.” Most graduates struggle to find their first job, not because they lack skills, but because they lack real project experience.
majaku solves this by hiring bootcamp graduates for 8–12 week product sprints — building real, shipped applications under professional mentorship. Graduates get portfolio-worthy work, schools get placement success, and we get products built.
Based between Berlin and Jakarta, Christopher is building a new model for global talent development — one that's faster, leaner, and more practical than traditional hiring pipelines.