4 online workshops
Weekly sessions, two hours each.
The programme
Start with an idea.
End with your first event.
A focused, application-based cohort for people who want to build a community alongside their work, studies, or other commitments.
Monday evenings
7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Office hours
Two one-on-one 30-minute slots included.
Max 30 participants
Intimate, focused, and designed for participation.
Your instructor
Harsh Snehanshu
Writer · Founder · Community builder
Harsh Snehanshu is a writer, entrepreneur and a serial community-builder.
He graduated from IIT Delhi with a degree in Engineering Physics, attended Young India Fellowship at Ashoka University & studied urban policy at Sciences Po in Paris.
Harsh co-founded YourQuote, a YC-backed writing app with over 8 million users, and Bookmark, a dating app for readers.
He also co-founded Pint of View, India’s largest lecture community, and Cubbon Reads, the world’s largest silent reading community, with chapters in 130+ cities across four continents.
He’s currently organising Asia’s first-ever Lecture FestivalTM, a festival of learning over drinks on 19–20 December 2026 at Jayamahal Palace Grounds, Bengaluru.
Through his decade-long experience in building communities, Harsh has designed a simple framework for building scalable communities with a strong inter-disciplinary ethos. The playbook gives members reasons to return, cracks word of mouth from the time of launch and find believers from the first event.
The course helps you take the community from a mere idea to its first monetised event, and beyond, recovering your course fee in a couple of events. The course ends with hands-on guide to scale your community into a worldwide network of affiliated chapters, and plan something larger, say a festival as has happened with Pint of View!
Portfolio
Communities from the Bootcamp
Every community begins with someone who wants to bring people together for a common purpose. Here is what participants have gone on to build.
Kathascope
Mythology, live.
Pace of Mind
Running followed by journaling.
Bangalore Breakfast Club
A Sunday breakfast meet in a different Bangalore neighbourhood every week.
Broken Mic
An open mic for broken people, with space for raw stories and unfiltered conversations.
AI for Women
AI for Women is a judgment-free space where women learn, explore, and build real things with AI.
Unprompted Club
A place to meet without prompts, without AI, and simply be present with one another.
Drawn to the City
Discover the city through heritage walks and map-making.
Four Shots Only
An analog photography club that takes silent walks with just four shots allowed.
Runaway Women’s Retreat
A running retreat for women runners in Sakleshpur.
Gongura Bhojanam Society
A South Indian supper club bringing people together around a shared table.
Write Side Up
A space for writing your next newsletter over carefully curated playlists..
Low Tide, High Tea ☕🌊
Baithaks by the beach.
Applications are open
Find the purpose. Community will follow!
No idea yet? That’s absolutely fine. You can apply even if you’re starting from scratch. We’ll help you find your starting point and work towards your first event.