Pay me to do your tech stuff

[Sp1dr]

Hi guys and gals,

I've recently started working for myself on the side, so far I have written web-scrapers, migrated data from custom coded websites , and built prototype apps and API's.

I am proficient in the following: Node.JS, NodeRED, JavaScript, MongoDB, SQL, Docker, C, Python, HTML/CSS, FlutterFlow, Raspberry Pi, Figma, Linux and Arduino to name a few.

I also have experience with Communication API's (SMS, Email, WhatsApp), and I have completed integrations and certifications into many payment platforms including Zapper, Paygate, Payfast, WiCode (Yoyo) etc.

I currently work as a Product Specialist and look after a Mobile Payment App, CRM and in house customer communication engine so I have a deep understanding of how digital products fit together.

The reason I am doing this is because I am starting my own business, but I am concerned about the fact that if I want to make it successful, I will need to quit my stable job in the very near future. And as such, I am open to adhoc work to keep the lights on while I get things going.

Two things to know about me:

• I still have a day job and I'm doing this on the side so I will tackle your projects in the evenings.
• If you can't get ChatGPT to do it for you, then I'm your guy

Cheers,
J

 

[Reegz]

Sounds like you have pretty decent web experience.

Might I suggest you consider using that experience to develop plugins for the Woocommce/Shopify space that you can sell to a global audience?

The idea here is to build a product that can make money for you while you sleep.

Find a very niche problem to solve, solve it well and then monetize the solution.

Not easy - but nothing worth doing is easy.

Trading time for money is fun and games when you're young and is a nice way to build up some cash. But as you get older you realise your time is worth a lot more than money.

 

[Sp1dr]

Sounds like you have pretty decent web experience.

Might I suggest you consider using that experience to develop plugins for the Woocommce/Shopify space that you can sell to a global audience?

The idea here is to build a product that can make money for you while you sleep.

Find a very niche problem to solve, solve it well and then monetize the solution.

Not easy - but nothing worth doing is easy.

Trading time for money is fun and games when you're young and is a nice way to build up some cash. But as you get older you realise your time is worth a lot more than money.

Hey bud! That's exactly what I'm working on, I'm building a web plugin that solves a very interesting problem for websites. Currently working as a JS snippet but busy building a WP plugin and will then have enough to take it to market. Will look at woo/Shopify as well. Buy my main use case is not for retail, at least not version 1..

Won't divulge too many details until I've got the product up and ready to be consumed. At that point I'll be sure to post it here, some of you may find it useful, and I may even give Carbies free credit to test it on their site if there's enough interest.

I'm currently wrapping up work for a client with a pretty complex data migration and have just quoted a political party to translate around 3000 of their articles to English using GPT3, kind of a complex job as well because I have to translate each paragraph individually while maintaining HTML markup, spans, heading tags etc. Turns out even with a custom coded solution, the initial results are better and more politically correct than off the shelf solutions. (Also coming in at around half the price.)

But yeah, this is not something I plan on doing long term, I need extra income to get my other thing going, and then I have other ideas that I want to work on. I'm kak tired building products that make other people a boatload of cash while I have to still prove my worth by hitting crazy OKRs for each quarter. I'm done, want to be my own boss for a change.

J

 

[Reegz]

ChatGPT is pretty fun but I'm wary of peeps who are staking their entire being on it.

To get the most out of it, you need to ask it good questions. And you need decent experience to be able to know what to ask it. Chicken and egg situation.

But yeah, that's just me being a cranky old timer.

For document translation AWS would be my first pick. There's a local use case of ABSA/Barclays used AWS services to auto-magically find and replace all instances of their old logo with the new one in their document repository.

AWS Translate/Comprehend would be my preferred tech stack for this job.

Document AI – Amazon Comprehend - Amazon Web Services

Most e-commerce owners are not tech savvy. They're business owners trying to deal with the complexities of operations, sales, marketing and the like.

If your solution is too clever and solves a problem that they don't understand, don't know of or don't see as critical then they're not going to bite.

Solve a problem that reduces their operational overhead, lightens their burden and frees up their time. It doesn't need to be sexy, AI-driven stuff. It needs to be basic to understand and it needs to work well 100% of the time.

Get one or two of those into the market to bring you some recurring revenue that covers the main running costs and then you can go and build fancy solutions.

 

[Sp1dr]

AWS Translate/Comprehend would be my preferred tech stack for this job.

Yeah I tried a bunch of them, they seem to not translate political stuff in a South African way, the main issue was that it would regularly translate premiers as Prime Ministers, which was only a mild issue but there were a few others. I've gotten pretty good at writing prompts for this sort of stuff, and the OpenAI pricing model is ridiculously cheap. To be clear I'm not using ChatGPT, but the GPT3 API itself, so I have written my own system prompt to 'train' it to be a pretty good South African translator.

Though I agree with you, they will never see any of the cool tech stuff going on and it's meaningless to them whichever route I take, but I like to play with fancy toys so... 😂

 

[Reegz]

Rock on!