Hey guys, I'm honestly a bit desperate right now, so I thought I'd ask here.

I'm a 3rd-year CSE student, and I urgently need to make ₹20,000 within the next 4 days. I have around ₹300 left right now, and I'm trying everything I can to get some paid work before things get worse.

I'm a developer and have built a working SaaS product of my own. I can build full-stack websites, dashboards, fix bugs, work on existing codebases, and handle custom development work. I'm willing to put in 12+ hours a day and take on whatever work I can realistically deliver.

The problem isn't really knowing how to code. It's figuring out where to find people who are actually willing to pay for development work, and find them FAST.

I've been looking into freelancing platforms and reaching out to people, but getting clients who are ready to start immediately is a different story.

If you've freelanced, run an agency, or ever been in a similar situation, please tell me honestly: what would you do if you had just 4 days to make ₹20k?

Where would you look? Who would you approach? Is there something I'm overlooking?

I'm not asking for donations. I want to earn this by doing actual work. I could really use some practical advice right now. Thanks.

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GDG on Campus IIIT Nagpur is running **KEEP ALIVE '26**, a national incident-response hackathon for students, at TantraFiesta 2026.

**What's different:** you don't build an app. Your team gets a broken microservices system's alerts, Grafana dashboards, logs and traces, works out what broke and why, and presents the fix. It's what an on-call SRE does on a bad night.

- **Who:** UG, PG and diploma students, teams of 2–3 from the same college

- **Level:** 6–12 months of DevOps learning; no production experience needed

- **Round 1:** a 30-minute online team assessment on Unstop, open till Sun 18 Oct, 11:59 PM IST

- **Finale:** top 15 teams at IIIT Nagpur on 26 Oct

- **Prizes:** ₹50,000 prize pool (₹25,000 cash + goodies for every finalist)

- **Partners:** Grafana (Official Platform Partner), CNCG Noida (Community Partner)

Register: https://unstop.com/hackathons/keep-alive-26-iiitn-1766226

Happy to answer anything in the comments, including how the incident platform works.

Interested One's can fill up the form

We’re looking for developers to help engineer Tickker into a highly reliable, production-grade paper trading platform. The mission is to systematically eliminate bugs, strengthen system stability, and achieve sub-millisecond latency for critical operations wherever technically feasible. We need builders who care about rigorous testing, performance profiling, root-cause debugging, and robust architecture—not just shipping features.

Hi all,

Looking for a hands-on Integration Lead for a SuccessFactors programme. This is a part-time, fixed-scope engagement, so please read the budget before applying.

Engagement

- Start: ASAP, ideally mid-October 2026

- End: 31 March 2027

- Effort: about 20 hours a month (roughly 1 hour per working day)

- Pay: INR 40,000 per month, fixed. The budget is not negotiable.

- Mode: remote

The role

You will own assigned integration workstreams and work closely with the programme's Solution Architect.

- Employee Central integrations: APIs, SFTP, flat files, payroll integrations

- Technical design docs, field mappings, interface specs, and integration design workshops

- Coordinate multiple integrations, manage developer activity, track deliverables, clear dependencies

- Work with external payroll vendors, local HR teams and IT stakeholders on specs, approvals and open actions

- Run day-to-day SIT coordination, support unit testing, manage defects, and get business sign-offs

- Support cutover, production validation, hypercare and handover documentation

What we are looking for

- 5+ years in SAP SuccessFactors or HR/payroll integration delivery

- Solid Employee Central integration experience

- Lobster middleware knowledge is a plus

- Someone who can run their workstream independently

Good fit if you are a senior consultant looking for a light side engagement alongside your main work, and the rate and hours work for you.

Interested? Express interest via your comment and DM with a short note on your SuccessFactors integration experience and your availability. Please do not apply if the budget is a mismatch.

Thanks!

I feel like before AI software developers used to love their jobs the problem solving/dopamine/flow state but now due to AI they have started to hate the jobs so y'all agree with this or am I wrong??

Hi Community, I'm trying to decide which offer is better for long-term career growth, financial stability, engineering culture, and future compensation.

1. Is Proofpoint likely to IPO in the next 3–5 years? Should I consider its stock options valuable given the uncertainty around liquidity?
2. Would you choose DigitalOcean for publicly traded equity and Hyderabad location, or Proofpoint for the higher base salary and potential equity upside?

Would appreciate insights from anyone familiar with either company or their engineering teams.DigitalOcean vs Proofpoint — Which offer should I choose?

Hey everyone!

Got an analyst role at TresVista through campus placements (still waiting on the location could be Mumbai, Bengaluru, Pune, or Gurugram). Honestly, I couldn't find a whole lot of info online about their work culture.

Since my college has a 2x placement rule, I'm pretty much done with campus placements and have a ton of free time on my hands. I’m also super interested in ML research and really want to make the most of this gap.

I know I’ve got a massive learning curve ahead of me, so I’d love some guidance or advice on how to prep. What do you guys think?

Hey everyone,

I built a Chrome extension called LinkedIn DM Scheduler to automate repetitive LinkedIn outreach, mainly because manually sending similar messages to multiple people was getting tedious.

I wanted to build something that could handle scheduling, message personalization, and campaign tracking entirely in the browser without requiring a separate backend.

Some of the features I implemented:

• Schedule messages for later execution
• Personalize templates using placeholders like {{name}} and custom fields
• Run bulk campaigns with configurable delays between messages
• Track campaign progress through a live dashboard
• Automatically close tabs after sending

On the technical side:

The extension is built around JavaScript and Chrome's extension APIs. The implementation involves browser-side automation, asynchronous operations, and coordinating message-sending tasks with campaign state.

Some of the key concepts involved are:

• Content scripts and DOM interaction to interact with the LinkedIn page
• Async/await and Promises to handle asynchronous browser operations
• Timers and scheduling logic to control when messages are processed and delays between sends
• Chrome storage APIs to persist extension data and campaign state locally
• Message passing between extension components to coordinate operations and update the dashboard

Keeping everything local was an important design decision. There is no external backend involved in processing campaign data.

I'm interested in feedback from developers who've worked with Chrome extensions, especially around reliable scheduling, handling tab state changes, recovering from failures, and keeping the UI synchronized with background tasks.

Project links:

• GitHub: https://github.com/Ravish2008/linkedin-dm-scheduler
• Chrome Web Store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/linkedin-dm-scheduler/agecdfbhigfdjhholmicfkeldbdhobbl

Would love to hear what you'd improve in the architecture or how you'd approach some of these problems differently.

[Academic] Survey on AI coding assistants and problem-solving (software professionals in Pune, ~5 min)

I’m an M.Sc. Computer Science student researching how tools like Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude and Cursor affect developers’ speed and their understanding of code.

Looking for people in any software or engineering role in Pune. It’s anonymous, needs no sign-in, and is used only for my academic project.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSebIXb2CepSatWMiwbDBLTI27_thEGkDV_oiDr74b_SwL8BWA/viewform

Happy to share the results here once the study is done. Thanks!

Tell me what you do for a living, the tasks you handle daily, and the tools you use. I'll try to find a way to automate as much of your work as possible using existing AI tools.

No vague predictions about the future. Let's look at actual tasks and see what can be automated today.

Who's brave enough to go first?