  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

user:	NickNYC242
created:	December 26, 2009
karma:	17
about:	Tech / Entertainment Entrepreneur, trying to democratize tv creation.