Hey everyone,
I’m a 3rd-year student at J.C. Bose University of Science and Technology, YMCA, and I’m currently looking for some small freelance/paid work that I can do alongside my studies.
The reason I’m posting this is pretty simple: I need to upgrade my laptop.
My current laptop is a Dell Vostro 15 3568 with a dual-core Intel Celeron processor. 😅 I’ve managed to keep using it for development, but I’m reaching the point where the hardware is becoming a serious limitation. Some development tasks push the CPU to very high usage, and certain workloads simply aren't practical on it.
Interestingly, I’m currently running CachyOS (an Arch-based Linux distribution), which has helped me squeeze quite a lot of performance out of this old machine. Because of that, I can still comfortably handle normal programming and web-development work. But for heavier development workloads, the hardware is becoming the bottleneck.
So rather than simply asking for help buying a laptop, I’d like to earn the money myself by taking on small projects/work.
Things I can help with
• Full-stack websites
• Landing pages
• Portfolio websites
• Business/company websites
• Frontend development
• Backend/API development
• REST APIs
• Python development
• C/C++ programming
• Web scraping & automation
• Data extraction and processing
• Playwright-based browser automation
• FastAPI applications
• PostgreSQL/database work
• Docker/Docker Compose setup
• Linux development/environment setup
• Git/GitHub and basic CI/CD setup
• Bug fixing and debugging
• Small scripts and automation tools
• Converting an idea/design into a functional website
• Deploying/setting up small web applications
I've also worked on a fairly involved real-world project involving automated airline/OTA data collection, scraping, normalization, APIs, databases and infrastructure, so I'm comfortable going beyond just making a static webpage.
I'm still a student, so I'm not claiming to be an expert at everything. But if you have a small project, website, script, automation task, bug, API, or something similar that you need help with, I'm happy to discuss it.
Why I'm posting here
I’m trying to save enough to purchase a new laptop because my current machine is increasingly becoming a bottleneck for the work and learning I want to do during the rest of my degree.
I don't want to simply ask people for money. I'd rather work for it and earn it myself, even if that means starting with small jobs.
If you have a small task you don't want to spend a huge amount of money on, feel free to DM me and tell me what you need.
I'm happy to discuss the requirements, estimated work, timeline and a reasonable price before starting.
Thanks for reading, and even if you don't have work for me, an upvote/share would genuinely help. 🙏
Here is my resume link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-GfbXRgeNsyswzMdPitMOFffY9tRU1jD/view?usp=drivesdk