I'm a 2025 CSE grad from a tier 3 college.
It’s been a year since my final exam, so I thought of sharing this.
After countless rejections in my final year and seeing business guys making tons of money, I decided to take a bet.
I took a month to figure out what I should do, and since I'm good at coding, Since I’m good at coding, I decided to start freelancing on the side to support myself.
I was already doing a remote internship, which was paying me 6000 rupees per month. And I stupidly left that to make more money freelancing.
But for the next 6 months, I didn't get any clients, and I had to ask my parents to support myself.
Then an automation agency owner noticed my work on X. He asked me to build cool n8n workflows he could post on X, and we agreed on ₹800 per workflow. I made some money from it, and a few of his posts even went viral.
Things were going well, then a US client approached me to build an insurance platform. It was a big project. I got paid $4,300. I teamed up with two friends, including a DevOps engineer, and we delivered it successfully. That was a huge financial boost for me.
I also started creating content on Instagram, though I haven’t seen much growth in the past 6 months. Would really appreciate your support there.
I’ve picked up some work here and there, including a project with a game dev studio. I also built my own SaaS, and now I’m focused on learning how to grow it.
Planning to launch more this year while continuing freelance work on the side.
Still posting content (mostly on X + Instagram), but growth has been slow.
I don’t even know how the year flew by, but I’ve learned more in this time than I ever did in school or college.
Still have a strong ambition to figure things out and make it work.
All the best to everyone reading.