Understand who can join Aspair today
Aspair's current app registration is for adults aged 18 and above. This applies to the current Co-founders and Dating spaces. The public resources on this website can be read without an account. Dating is strictly for adults.
If you are under 18, do not change your birthday to bypass the app's eligibility checks. You can use the public planning resources and explore supervised college or school entrepreneurship activities. This page does not open access to private adult matching or chats.
Student founders aged 18 or above can create a Co-founders profile, add their own LinkedIn link and describe their contribution manually. Work experience and a funded startup are not prerequisites for writing a useful introduction.
Use a small piece of work as your introduction
A clear project, a thoughtful customer observation, an open prototype or a well-explained operational problem can make your contribution more concrete than a long list of interests. Explain what you personally did and what you learned.
“I study electronics and have built a small irrigation controller. I can contribute hardware prototyping for six hours a week during term. I want to work with someone who can speak to growers and test whether the problem matters before we build more.”
Describe learning goals honestly. “Learning frontend development” and “ready to own engineering” communicate different levels of responsibility; both are more useful when they are accurate.
Make the semester visible in your plan
Discuss weekly hours, exams, internships, location and the next date your availability may change. A partner should not discover your exam schedule only after a missed milestone. Put the next four weeks on the table before promising a full-time commitment.
In Aspair, use the commitment field accurately and read the other person's expectations. Match signals can highlight when stated commitments differ; they do not decide whether that difference can work.
Use a bounded working trial to find a rhythm before making larger commitments. A useful trial can be an interview plan, a prototype of one task or a small process test.
Look for complementary contributions
Start with a responsibility you cannot currently own well. If you build, you may need customer discovery or operations. If you understand a problem through work or study, you may need someone who can prototype a test. People with the same course title can still bring different strengths.
Use startup sectors and specialisms to add context, then read the actual contribution a profile describes. A broad interest in AI, robotics or fintech is not a complete working plan. Our search playbook helps turn that interest into an introduction someone can respond to.
Keep the first conversation practical
- What do we each know about this problem?
- What can we each do independently right now?
- What would we need help or supervision to do?
- How much time can we commit during term?
- What would make a two-week collaboration worthwhile even if we do not continue?
Use the conversation guide and fit worksheet to compare expectations. Current app access depends on age eligibility, profile review and the members available in the community.