Living in the u.s looking for experience so I thought to do contract work through lemmy ie Tell me a project you’d like me to build, I build it. What do you gain? A software you want maybe you diddnt have time to build, what do I gain? Experience to put on my resume instead of just projects to say I was a contractor for x person (you) also I won’t put your real name I’ll put the software name. Or i can contribute to your open source long term. Should I make this request on forums or blogs ? Or do you guys think this might be a dead end ?

      • abbadon420@sh.itjust.works
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        3 days ago

        I just found stapi.co, a star trek api that is not very actively maintained. I had the idea to bring that project up from springboot 3.0.x to springboot 4.x.x (the most recent one). That idea came ti me an hour ago and thusfar I’ve froked the project,but can’t get it to run yet haha

      • ludrol@programming.dev
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        4 days ago

        The one that you already use. Surly there is a bug that has been gnawing at you and you can be the one to fix it.

      • unglueclass23@programming.dev
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        4 days ago

        this is why i recommend everyone going into software use linux and open source as much as possible

        then you naturally find projects to contribute to

  • vrek@programming.devEnglish
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    5 days ago

    What are you looking to do? Front end? Backend? Complex? Crud? Graphics? Audio? Iot? Plc?

      • vrek@programming.devEnglish
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        4 days ago

        All my experience with plc programming was done professionally with systems way outside the common person budget(for example for one of them just the software to connect to it was 5k per year). I know there are cheaper alternatives but don’t have experience with them.

  • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Makes sense. Might be hard though.
    Would be a good idea to start by adding what types of programs you are good at, i.e. the projects.

    Also, there is no lack of OSS projects to work on. Take for instance:

    For paid work though, it becomes harder. You need to be good at advertising yourself correctly to the correct client and I (as someone who failed to advertise myself) am not the correct person to give suggestions on that.