Manish Das

Co-Founder & Product Lead @ Stuket.in

About

I’m a first-year engineering student building STUKET — a verified, student-only marketplace designed to make campus buying and selling simple, safe, and spam-free. We’ve officially launched at VSSUT, NIT Calicut and NIT Goa with strong early traction and real on-ground adoption. Completed our user registration goals of 150, 200, and 100 in just 2 days!! These Goals where based on the number of students in these colleges, and how much they would like STUKET - now at their fingertips. What I’m currently focused on: Building and scaling a campus-first marketplace User acquisition & on-ground growth Product feedback loops from real student users I’m interested in startups, marketplaces, product thinking, and early-stage execution. Always open to conversations with builders, founders, and people who like shipping things early.

Country

India

City

Mapusa

Industry

Non-profit Organization Management

Skill

Communication, Pitching Ideas, Content writing, Early-stage growth, product thinking, on ground user acquisition , Go-to-Market Strategy, Pitch Deck development , SWOT analysis, Start-up Leadership, Engineering

Experience

Co-Founder & Product Lead

Stuket.in

2025-9 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo

Sambalpur, Odisha, India

Building a hyper-local, student-to-student marketplace to streamline the campus circular economy. Scaled to 600+ users across NIT Rourkela, NIT Calicut, NIT Goa, and IIIT Bhubaneswar within the first two days of launch in the respective colleges. Growth: Engineered a rapid-launch strategy, achieving cross-campus adoption and a 15-second registration-to-onboarding flow. Operations: Spearheading the transition to a Private Limited entity, including equity structuring and trademarking. Marketing: Executed high-impact campus activations and digital campaigns under the tagline: "Connecting the Unconnected." Leadership: Managing end-to-end business development and strategic partnerships to scale the student marketplace model. Managing teams of 4-5 members each in Social Media and PR, Marketing and Advertising. Team members include students from NIT Calicut, Rourkela and VSSUT Recruitment:- Carrying out personal one-to-one interviews to check the candidate's eligibility for the role.

Content Writing with Public Speaking, and Graphic Designing

Literary Society VSSUT (Team ViSSion)

2026-2 - Present · 8 mos

VSSUT

Writing all kinds of stuff, from poems to shayaris, from short stories to novels, love reading and writing. Looking forward to learning and designing ads, posters, banners etc. PS: Hindi and Urdu help me express myself better than in English🫶✨