sometimes i spend 3 hours writing SQLAlchemy migrations and zero hours doing anything that sounds cool on twitter. nobody posts about the migration files. but that's where the real work lives.
As a freelancer in the tech space, what do you do to get paying clients.
It’s like I’ve exhausted everything, from contra to Fiverr, Upwork, LinkedIn, indeed.
It’s almost like I’m doing something wrong
Any suggestions please, I’d appreciate them
you can just build things.
build a RAG pipeline from your room in Lagos. ship a SaaS across 4
platforms with no cofounder. train a model to catch vessel anomalies on real port data at 91%.
you can just do things.
the solo founder pipeline:
write the backend. train the model. build the API. dockerize it. deploy it. then open your inbox and do sales.
nobody told me the hardest part of running a studio would be context switching between pytorch and invoices.
built calendo from my room in lagos. no cofounder, no funding. just fastapi, supabase, and too much garri. it's live across 4 platforms now and real people use it. still feels unreal
quietly built a SaaS on the side. Calendo. schedule posts across 4 platforms from one calendar.
draft to published workflow, analytics, CSV export. FastAPI Supabase Next.js.
it's live. go try it right now.
Everybody thinks ML engineering is training models and watching accuracy go up. bro 80% of my time is cleaning data that looks like it was typed with elbows
things i've shipped as a backend & ML engineer:
- RAG pipeline for Supabase docs
- Calendo, a live SaaS across 4 platforms
- EB-1A petition analyzer
- SMS spam classifier w/ DistilBERT
just getting started.
Built an AI support assistant trained on Supabase's documentation. Asks a question, gets a grounded answer with the exact docs link in seconds. FastAPI Chroma Gemini RAG pipeline. Live: supabase-support-bot.onrende… — and I can build the same for your SaaS docs.