July 3, 2026
I get messages all the time from university juniors and relatives asking the same question: where do I find an internship? At first I'd just point them to LinkedIn. After enough of these conversations, I started actually paying attention to what they were running into — and it wasn't good.
The first thing I noticed was how many fake internship platforms are out there. Places that hand you a "project" to complete and then ask you to pay for a certificate at the end — as if the certificate was ever the point. People were spending money to get scammed out of what should have been a real learning opportunity.
The second thing was LinkedIn itself. Finding internships there is genuinely difficult — postings are buried in a feed full of everything else, and even when you find one, there's rarely enough detail to know what you're applying for. No clear location, no real requirements, nothing about what the role actually involves. People would apply and just never hear back. No rejection, no confirmation, nothing. Just silence.
That's the gap I wanted to close. Not another feed to scroll through, but a platform built around one job: showing real internship opportunities with the details that actually matter — location, requirements, everything you need to know before you apply — from companies that have actually been checked, not just anyone who signs up.
That's how Interned came together. Companies register, but they don't get to post right away — we verify them first. Once approved, they can post internships, and anyone can browse them, filter by location, and see the full picture before applying. No accounts needed to look, no guessing games, no certificate scams hiding behind a login page.
I decided early on this wasn't going to be built to profit off students trying to find work. It's a non-profit. I named it Interned — no wordplay, no hidden meaning. It's a platform for internships, so that's what it's called.
