THE OFFER
I'm willing to do a few small web development jobs for a few HNers at
no cost whatsoever.
Bonus points if it's for your startup or you have continuous web development needs.
WHAT I CAN DO
I like making web apps. I'm primarily a
Ruby guy, and I love
Sinatra, but Rails is cool too.
And while I've done some PHP, it's not for me. I also do frontend work of course
(XHTML, CSS,
JS with jQuery, amateur/minor graphic design). Minor Linux system administration is
manageable for me too, like configuring web servers or databases and deploying apps.
But I'm no expert, having learnt what I know by being an Ubuntu user and managing a few servers.
If you need something that I can't do yet, note that I love learning new things — how do
you think I got myself into all this?
WHY I'M DOING THIS
I've been teaching myself this stuff over the last few years, but I don't have too much to
show for it. I want to freelance, so I'm trying to build up my portfolio, and doing some free
work occurred to me as a great way to do so while making new contacts at the same time. I tried
this approach with success a couple of weeks back and I'm trying it again at a larger scale now.
CAVEATS
I'm obviously not terribly experienced in anything at all, though I
am free.
I just ask that requests be very limited in scope (say, something that would take a decent
developer a few days), and I should be able to show the work in my portfolio. Also, I'm only
free the first time. Finally, if I get many requests somehow, I may have to turn some down.
But I doubt that will happen.
YOU SHOULD CONTACT ME
Even if you're not sure, or don't need it until later. What do you have to lose? Not money.
What might you gain? A reasonably competent coder, or at least some work done by one.
Contact me
now! Email: meh5@njit.edu
Skype: ehsanul_g3
After realising this wasn't working, I re-listed it for $5 and the first person who contacted me actually came and picked it up without any issues.