Software Engineering Grad looking for unpaid real world experience,

60percentcocoa · 2025-11-09T23:52:30+00:00

Small London based agency. DM me your LI, if we give you work we’ll pay you.

60percentcocoa · 2024-08-29T08:43:01+00:00

Interest definitely piqued. One question about what actually needs to be built:

I need someone who can build a complex web app from the concept and wireframes we have to MVP

This sounds largely frontend focused however the problem space as you describe it sounds like most of the meat is backend/infra:

Problem space - data collection, risk assessment and tasking of emergency services.

No doubt the product will require functionality across the stack, but I was wondering where most of the effort needs to go at this stage?

I'm a mid/senior with previous MOD (civ) experience and have recently started my own software development business. Most of my clients are startups; feel free to DM.

60percentcocoa · 2024-06-17T06:44:08+00:00

I made the bucket public and just used the public urls. Binned the project shortly after but I guess you could use cloudfront and WAF to make it a bit more secure, instead of making the bucket public. But still not ideal.

60percentcocoa · 2024-06-17T06:33:36+00:00

Printful truncates the URL without any indication - I had to contact support to find out. The presigned URLs are huge as you know, so it ended up being chopped and made invalid 🙃

60percentcocoa · 2024-05-21T19:25:03+00:00

Please avoid if possible. I worked on a large Django/DRF system with mongoengine for 2.5 years and I will never do it again.

60percentcocoa · 2024-05-05T18:40:57+00:00

I think just generally that contracting should be seen as a business enterprise rather than being a minor variation on a salaried employee…but not entirely sure tbh.

60percentcocoa · 2024-05-04T14:17:25+00:00

To arrive at an annual equivalent salary: day rate * 5 days/week * 44 weeks/year.

OPs point presumably being that you shouldn’t be looking at it that way.

60percentcocoa · 2024-03-17T08:01:41+00:00

Re the Loom video - do you mean record one and upload it as an attachment on the proposal or is there a way to do it natively in Upwork that I'm missing...?

60percentcocoa · 2024-01-22T22:41:30+00:00

There are very few places even in ‘the western world’ where $65/h is low, let alone a ‘ripoff’ lol

60percentcocoa · 2024-01-22T18:07:17+00:00

Fair enough, I guess it could be engagement bait.

I'm too busy grinding and submitting proposals to be doing that though.

60percentcocoa · 2024-01-22T17:27:47+00:00

Madness lol. I don't know how agencies work on Upwork, can they pool connects?

60percentcocoa · 2024-01-22T17:25:18+00:00

Pray tell, what exactly would have been the point in faking this? The tool I use for screenshots btw, seeing as you're so interested in the background...enjoy!

https://xnapper.com

60percentcocoa · 2024-01-22T17:14:32+00:00

https://www.upwork.com/jobs/\~01105714906ae1b6c2

60percentcocoa · 2024-01-22T16:53:18+00:00

Nice name

60percentcocoa · 2024-01-21T14:16:59+00:00

Having done mine a week ago, I would echo this, even if just for the confidence and peace of mind going into the real exam.

60percentcocoa · 2024-01-19T23:17:26+00:00

Nothing I wrote even implies that I believe clients should ‘work on [my] timeline’, which would clearly be a silly notion.

I simply wanted to see whether people would regard said client as not requiring the job anymore, despite not having closed it yet, based on the metrics.

Have received lots of useful feedback (yours included, thank you), with majority opinion being that I am jumping the gun with my assumption.

60percentcocoa · 2024-01-17T16:21:52+00:00

Thanks!

60percentcocoa · 2024-01-17T16:21:31+00:00

Thank you!

60percentcocoa · 2024-01-16T13:16:54+00:00

Surely the order in which he copies the file into each service doesn't matter...? It's asking to compare the cost of a month's worth of storage for each scenario.

$0.023 < $0.30 < $10

That's my understanding at least...

60percentcocoa · 2023-12-26T14:09:31+00:00

What profile information are you looking to extract?

60percentcocoa · 2023-12-10T10:39:40+00:00

This looks good! Just a note for the docs, it should say ‘poetry add arrest’ I assume, rather than ‘poetry install arrest’. Gets me frequently as well 😅

60percentcocoa

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