One app connecting international students with real jobs in Italy — and keeping them inside the legal work-hour rules while they earn.
growth in international enrollment at Italian universities every year since 2022 — a market that keeps refilling itself.
most-searched study-abroad destination worldwide in 2025, with the biggest search surges from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Egypt.
Italian universities now teach in English — a steadily growing pipeline of new arrivals, not a one-time wave.
Every one of these students needs income while they study, and almost none of them have an easy way to find work, know what they're legally allowed to work, or make sense of the paperwork. That gap is the business.
European students make up 44% of that population, with Romania as the single largest source country. African enrollment is growing fastest — up 53% since 2015 — a group that tends to need part-time income more, not less.
One app, four connected parts
The details behind every branch of the map above.
The people using the app to find work
Hospitality, retail, and food service jobs in the launch city. Free to look — no membership needed to browse.
Send an application straight to the employer. No separate paperwork to find a job.
Non-EU student visas cap work at 20 hours a week and 1,040 hours a year, combined across every job a student has — not per employer. The app logs hours, including jobs found outside the app, against that cap.
An alert appears as a student nears their weekly or yearly cap, so nobody goes over by accident. Going over risks their residence permit, not just the job.
Plain-language explanations of official work permit and financial aid requirements, organized in one place — the app explains what's required, it doesn't file anything on a student's behalf.
An optional paid support tier for students who want more hand-holding through their paperwork.
needs a legal check before launchBusinesses hiring students
No cost to list a job right now. The goal is enough listings that students have a real reason to join.
Direct access to students actively looking for part-time work in hospitality, retail, and food service.
Because the app tracks each student's legal work-hour cap, an employer hiring through it is hiring someone whose compliance is already handled — lower risk than hiring blind.
An employer can see how many hours a student has left this week before scheduling them — useful for planning shifts around a legal limit instead of guessing.
Once there's real volume on both sides, a paid employer tier is the plan — not before.
Only the founder sees this
How many students and how many employers are on the app, and how fast that number is growing.
Membership income coming in, costs going out, and the profit in between.
Jobs posted, applications sent, active users — a real picture of how much is happening on the app.
See whether growth is coming from students or from employers, and catch a slowdown on either side before it becomes a problem.
Everything above lives in one place instead of scattered files.
How people find out the app exists
The website's only job is to get found in search and get people to install the app. Every real feature — jobs, tracking, payments — lives inside the app itself.
Classic SEO, so it shows up on Google when someone searches for student jobs in the launch city, or in Italy generally. And GEO, so it shows up when someone asks ChatGPT or another AI assistant the same question — increasingly how students search first.
If web-based signup or browsing is ever worth adding, that's a future step — not part of version 1.
Most job apps lose you the moment you're hired. This one doesn't.
Student finds a job. Student stops opening the app.
Student finds a job — then keeps coming back every week to log hours, stay under their legal cap, and get warned before they risk their permit.
One path, five steps, and a built-in reason to come back every week.
Finds it through the website or a friend. Install takes seconds, browsing is free.
Scans local listings in hospitality, retail, or food service, and applies in a couple of taps.
Every shift gets logged against the 20-hour weekly, 1,040-hour yearly legal cap — including hours from any other job.
An alert appears as the weekly or yearly cap gets close, so nothing goes over by accident.
Hours reset weekly — the whole reason this isn't a one-time-use app. There's always a reason to open it again.
Under the hood, this runs on the same technology serious platforms use.
Enterprise-grade infrastructure built to handle real growth, not a weekend project.
The same framework powering some of the fastest, most search-friendly sites on the web.
One premium app, one codebase, both app stores.
The admin panel runs as its own dedicated app, not just a browser tab.
Handles background work instantly, so nothing ever feels slow.
Full control over performance, security, and cost — no vendor lock-in.
One backend, every app talks to it
Every app, one shared brain behind them.
Whether it's the website, the mobile app, or the internal admin app, it's talking to the same system behind the scenes.
One shared backend handles every request, so every app always sees the same, up-to-date information.
Real data — users, jobs, hours, payments — lives in one place, always accurate.
Redis and BullMQ handle heavier tasks quietly, so the app in front of the user never feels stuck.
All of this happens on our own private server, fully under our control.
Free where it needs to be free to grow, priced where people will already pay.