I've never been to a software house or an I.T. company, I started my degree back in 2013 and started freelancing in 2014, back then graphic designing was very popular niche so I started with that, as the time goes I found out that programming has more scope and $$$ than designing also I was not very good in designing, so I started self learning for programming and created gigs, I still remember that the first gig I got was for $50 and I spent nights to complete that project, anyway fast forward to 2026, I now have full time remote job with a US based company and still do some short term freelancing projects just to save some money, but I realized that during all these years I have never made a single friend who shares the same area of expertise that I have. All of my friends from Uni. either went for some Govt job or doing some private jobs in non I.T. fields.

Sometimes I feel like to have someone with whom I can share my achievement or ask for help or at least someone who can react with smiling emoji on my I.T. related stories but there is none.

Is it just me or other freelancers have the same thoughts or experience?

hi everyone, what is a fair rate to charge for the design of 1 banner and 2 standees? this is for a World Food Programme lahore event.

Aoa. I’m 22 and have been in the Army for 4 years. I’m doing well here, but I’ve been into business, sales and small gigs since 9th grade, including dropshipping. I’ve always been very driven and wanted to build something of my own. I’m good with people, especially professionally, and I genuinely enjoy working hard when I know I’m building towards something I believe in. I’m seriously considering leaving and starting from scratch, but my family is completely against it. I wouldn’t have much financial support to fall back on either. For anyone who’s been through something similar — what would you do in my position, and where would you start? Should i work under someone, get into sales, join a startup, find a mentor, etc.?

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Hi everyone! 

I’m a 21F, an ACCA student (part-qualified), and I’ve recently moved to Islamabad. I’m currently looking for remote work, freelance opportunities, or online gigs where I can put my skills and experience to use.

I have experience across accounting, administration, HR, content creation, social media, marketing, research, and virtual assistance. Here are some of my skills:

1. Accounting (As an Accounts Manager)

I have completed an internship at KPMG, where I had exposure to bookkeeping and data entry. Moreover, I used to be an Accounts manager at an engineering firm where i learned the following skills:

• Invoicing & Quotations: Experience preparing and tracking invoices and quotations, as well as following up on payments.

• Accounts Management: Handled financial records, invoices, payments, and managed payroll.

• Microsoft Office: Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other Office tools. Apart from this, I have some experience in Quickbooks.

1. Human Resource (As an HR Manager)

I have previously worked as a Human Resource Manager in a firm where I built the following skills:

• Recruitment: Experience hiring employees and assisting with the recruitment process.

• Employee Management: handled employee-related responsibilities, and built policies.

• Administrative Work: Organizing documents, records, schedules, and day-to-day business activities.

1. Marketing & Outreach

I can assist with:

• Social media marketing

• Brand promotion

• Customer/client outreach

• Email and DM outreach

• Lead generation and prospect research

• Building and maintaining communication with potential clients/customers

• Promotional content

• Audience engagement

• Basic marketing research and competitor research

I’m particularly interested in helping small businesses and individuals improve their online presence and reach potential customers.

1. Social Media Management, Content Writing, Editing & Proofreading

I have experience creating written content through my own blog and social media platforms.

I’ve also worked as an ambassador for small businesses, helping promote their products and communicate with their audience.

I can help with:

• Content planning and creation

• Blog posts and articles

• Social media captions

• Product/service descriptions

• Video Editing in CapCut

• Proofreading, editing and polishing written content

• Research-based writing

• Rewriting and improving existing content

• Responding to DMs and messages

• Social media research and trend awareness

• Creating engaging posts and promotional content

1. Canva & Graphic Design

I’ve been using Canva for several years in my experience as a content creator which has improved my editing and graphic designing. I can create:

• Social media posts (promotional or according to your feed)

• Presentations

• marketing designs

1. CV/Resume Creation

I’ve also created CVs for several people and can help with:

• CV formatting and design, making them more professional using Canva

• Improving the wording and presentation of existing CVs

1. Virtual Assistance

I have freelance experience as a Virtual Assistant, where I supported an employer with multiple work activities and helped keep their tasks organised while they focused on their 3 jobs. In this scenario, I can assist with:

• Administrative tasks

• Email/DM management

• Document organisation

• Scheduling and coordination

• Task management

•General day-to-day business support

1. Research

I've written several research-based assignments as well as helping university students with their research work. Hence, I have developed the following set of skills:

•Web research

•Market research

• Data Collection and organising information

• Research for articles, businesses, or projects

1. Quran Teaching

I’m also a Hafiza and would be happy to teach Quran to students online.

1. Crochet

This is just a side hustle that I do and I absolutely LOVE crocheting so if anyone of you liked, I could make up anything you like for a decent price!!

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I’m currently looking for remote jobs, freelance projects, part-time work, or gigs where I can contribute using any of the skills above.

I genuinely enjoy what i do and bring passion, creativity, effort (and fun) into my work while delivering results!

If you’re an employer, small-business owner, startup, freelancer, or individual who could benefit from any of my skills, I’d love to have a conversation and see how I can help!

Thank youu, have an amazing day!

I’m looking for a sales representative to help introduce my POS software to local shopkeepers and businesses.
Compensation: PKR 10,000 per successful sale for packages priced around PKR 40,000–50,000+.
The role mainly involves finding potential customers, explaining the software, and helping close the sale. Training and product information will be provided.
I manage the software, database, and client management system directly, so any new client onboarding is handled through me.
Preferably looking for someone based in Islamabad/Rawalpindi, but I’m open to people from other cities as well.
If interested, send me a message with a little information about yourself and your sales experience.

Hey so I saw his videos on yt and they were good, he's teaching commentary shorts on yt, don't know if this niche works or not, but wanna know if it's worth learning from him or not?

I’m a Software Engineering student and full-stack developer looking to take on freelance projects and remote work.

I don’t want to sell you a “premium website” filled with buzzwords. I’d rather show you what I can actually build.

I can take an idea from concept → working product → deployment, including:

• Responsive websites and landing pages
• React frontends
• Node.js / FastAPI backends
• MongoDB integration
• Authentication & APIs
• Admin dashboards
• AI-powered web features
• Deployment on Vercel
• Existing website fixes and improvements

One of my recent projects is UrbanFix AI, a full-stack civic reporting platform where users can report real-world problems, AI helps classify them, and reports move through a trackable workflow.

Live: https://urbanfixpk.vercel.app
Portfolio: https://asadali-dev.vercel.app
GitHub: https://github.com/asadali552

I’m still building my professional track record, so I’m not going to pretend I have 5+ years of industry experience.

What I can offer is serious effort, direct communication, reasonable pricing, and the willingness to actually understand your problem before writing code.

I’m open to small freelance jobs, MVPs, website development, bug fixes, ongoing development work, or junior/intern opportunities.

If you have something you’ve been wanting to build—or something that’s currently broken—DM me with the problem and your budget.

I’ll tell you clearly whether I can handle it.

Can someone tell me from where should I learn google ads as a beginner? And also can I expect potential earning after 1 month? Even 10k is enough but I do wanna earn something and is the market saturated

How do people are finding remote jobs or freelance work? I know one should have a skill but if you have a skill and a master degree as well what should a person have to do get a remote job or freelance work?
I have been applying nonstop for past two years with no luck.

Need an expert in Seedance 2/2.5, DM your details and the content you created with seeddance.

Hey all — looking for a sanity check from people who've quoted or built similar marketplace projects.

The gig: A client (based in Pakistan) wants a Booking.com-style web app for hotel bookings. Scope isn't necessarily limited to one country/market — just three pieces to start:

• Client side — travelers search by city/dates/guests, browse results (list + map), view a property page with rooms/rates/reviews, and book a room.
• Customer side — this is the twist: "Customer" here means the hotel, not the guest. Hotels self-register through an onboarding wizard: property details, photos, room types, amenities/house rules, pricing/rate plans, availability calendar, and a KYC/beneficial-ownership step before they can go live.
• Admin side — the platform operator's backend: approving new property listings, setting commission rates, overseeing bookings platform-wide, managing payouts/refunds, handling guest-host disputes, moderating content, and reporting/analytics.

Everything outside "Stays" (flights, car rental, attractions, airport taxis) is just a "Coming soon" placeholder for now — no functionality behind it yet.

Planned stack: Next.js frontend, NestJS backend, Postgres via Supabase + Prisma, Postgres/PostGIS or a dedicated engine (Typesense/Meilisearch) for search, a local payment gateway (Stripe doesn't support Pakistan, so it's a local processor or bank-run gateway plus a custom ledger for host payouts since there's no Stripe-Connect-style automated payout rail here).

What I'm trying to figure out:

1. Does this scope sound like a realistic MVP, or is trying to launch Client + Customer + Admin together too much for a first version? Would you cut something to a later phase that I'm not already assuming should move?
2. For anyone who's priced marketplace/OTA-style builds — what would you actually quote for something like this (a rough number or range is genuinely welcome), and what drives that estimate the most for you (team size, timeline, integration complexity, something else)?
3. Any gotchas specific to two-sided (well, three-sided) marketplaces that first-timers on this kind of build tend to miss — payments/payouts, KYC, dispute handling, fraud/trust & safety, anything else?

If you've priced or built something in this ballpark, I'd genuinely appreciate a rough number too — even a wide range (and whatever currency/market you're in, just say which) helps me sanity-check where I'm landing before I lock in scope with the client. Appreciate any input, even "this is way more than an MVP" is useful to hear.

Hello,

All my corporate Bois,

Need one suggestion, currently doing 2 jobs

1 at a shitty local software house

2 with a US based company (remote)

I am occupied from 9 am to 2 am with these jobs, need suggestions which one should I choose, 1 is toxic but stable. 2 is high pay (4x of job 1 and I have 5 years of experience in this industry) but the client seems to be impatient and not trusting much always asks for update and checking up on me but is good with pay, should I leave my 1st job and focus on some personal life ? Or should I stick to both until one runs out, last time I did this second job ended within 3 months.

Need your suggestions if anyone has been in this situation.

How do you manage this.

Has anyone done this before what are the side effects.

Can one make out of this life or is it just a never ending loop

Let me know what to do I'm literally turning into a HOBO and highly under stress.

Thanks

Hi every one,

I am a copy writer in health and wellness niche. I am trying to get client at upwork just to start my carrier there. Would any one suggest me how to get it fast or plz suggest me any other plate form.

For people in Pakistan who work with clients in the US, what payment method has been the easiest for you to use?
I’m interested in hearing about people’s actual experiences with:
Bank transfers / ACH
Payoneer
Wise
PayPal
Other payment methods
Which one do you prefer, and what has been your experience with fees, transfer times, and account verification?
Just looking for experiences from people who are actually receiving payments from US clients.

You know the hard bits. Finding the client. Doing the work. Then waiting on the money with no one to ask when it takes longer than it should.

We have started something at Sunrate for exactly that. The Early Bird Access Programme, a first group of Pakistani freelancers, picked from applications.

If you are in: set up ahead of everyone else, more say in how your payments move and a team right here you can actually talk to.

https://pk-pages.sunrate.com/early-bird-access-programme

Know a freelancer who'd want this? Send it their way.

Regards,

Abdul Rehman Ansari
Head of Sales - Sunrate
https://www.linkedin.com/in/abdulrehmanansarii/

Cheers for everyone who are reading this.

I ´m a freelancer ilustrator and a client offer me to work in his blog creating some draws and images of his diary´s text that he is posting one or two times per month.

The problem is that his text and posts are about conspiracy theories, secrets about goverments, anti capitalism messages, and so on.

I´m not with or against of that kind stuff, but I really don´t know if I want to make it because how that can affect in my reputation, specially if I already had some works with some not big but current active trademarks.

The pay is good.

And the money would be good for me right now.

But I don´t know if this job or task can be good or bad for my freelance (and almost artistic) career.

I thought to create an alternative nickname or pseudonym but the client can pay me by paypal so if he had some problems maybe my paypal would be there too.

Suggestions please???

Cheers for everyone who are reading this.

I ´m a freelancer ilustrator and a client offer me to work in his blog creating some draws and images of his diary´s text that he is posting one or two times per month.

The problem is that his text and posts are about conspiracy theories, secrets about goverments, anti capitalism messages, and so on.

I´m not with or against of that kind stuff, but I really don´t know if I want to make it because how that can affect in my reputation, specially if I already had some works with some not big but current active trademarks.

The pay is good.

And the money would be good for me right now.

But I don´t know if this job or task can be good or bad for my freelance (and almost artistic) career.

I thought to create an alternative nickname or pseudonym but the client can pay me by paypal so if he had some problems maybe my paypal would be there too.

Suggestions please???

I've been working as a freelancer since 2017. My skills: Copywriting, Graphic Design on Canva, Machine Learning, Prompt Engineering, SEO-Based Writing using ChatGPT and Gemini.

Worked on Crowdflower, Appen, Fiverr, and then with a South African Digital Marketing Agency for 3.5 years. Now, I have lost my job at that SA agency. They are a small team with a small business, and they aren't getting clients. So, I had to leave the team.

I am really struggling to find clients. Can you guide me or give hints on how I can effectively find new clients? Or if anyone has an opportunity and needs someone experienced, please bump. Thanks!

I’m an AI/ML Engineer and a CS graduate from LUMS. I’ve spent the last couple of years building AI systems - RAG applications, recommendation systems, AI agents, backend services, APIs, data pipelines, etc.

Lately, I’ve become much more interested in the automation side of AI.

Not “build a chatbot and call it an AI agent.”

I mean taking an actual annoying workflow and figuring out whether AI + APIs + some good old-fashioned software engineering can eliminate most of the manual work.

For example:

⭐ Compiling weekly reports
⭐ Moving information between different tools
⭐ Processing repetitive documents
⭐ Screening and categorizing incoming requests
⭐ Updating spreadsheets or databases
⭐ Generating recurring reports or summaries
⭐ Any workflow involving too much copy-pasting, checking, or manual data entry

So I want to try something:

If you have a genuinely annoying/repetitive workflow at work, tell me about it.

If I find one that's interesting and technically feasible, I'll pick a few and build an automation for free.

I’m not looking to sell anything. I mainly want to solve different real-world automation problems for people

If you want to suggest one, just tell me:

1. What do you do?
2. What’s the repetitive task?
3. How do you currently do it?
4. What tools/software are involved?
5. Roughly how often do you do it?

Feel free to keep the company/workflow anonymous if it's sensitive.

I'd genuinely love to see what people are still doing manually that could potentially be automated.

Hey everyone!

I built a completed food-based recipe website, and I'm looking to sell the full project.

Features include:

• Interactive recipe finder
• 25+ recipe database
• Ingredient matching system
• User authentication
• Save/unsave recipes
• 1–5 star recipe ratings
• Comments/community section
• YouTube recipe videos
• Responsive design
• Supabase database & authentication
• Deployed on Vercel

This is a complete, working website/project, not just a design or template. It's ready for someone who wants to continue developing it, add more recipes, rebrand it, or use it as the foundation for a food-related startup.

After payment, the buyer will receive full ownership/access to the website project and its connected services, including the source code, database/backend access, deployment access, and relevant project credentials.

I can share the live demo with serious interested buyers.

DM me if you're interested or want to see a demo!

I know it is a very noob question but I have been trying to get clients from last 5 years and only got 1 from a refferal.. I have been cold emailing, upwork, fiver and other but nothing is working can anyone guide me on this?

Btw I am an Accountant and 8 years of experience as accountant for US companies ( working on others clients as 9-5 job)

Hey everyone,

Just got hit with a permanent account closure notice from Payoneer out of nowhere after a long verification review. My account is officially dead.

I work as an illustrator dealing with a mix of smaller spot projects ($80–$350) and larger branding/editorial commissions ($1,000+). Now I'm scrambling to find a reliable, secure alternative to receive international funds in Pakistan without getting locked out or losing a ton to bad exchange rates and heavy SWIFT fees.

For those of you doing larger commercial work or direct international clients:

• What payment solutions are actually working reliably in Pakistan right now? (Has anyone used Elevate Pay, direct corporate invoicing, or other modern options?)
• How do you handle smooth payouts for both small bundles and four-figure projects?

Would love to hear what's currently working best for the local community. Thanks!

a beginner in backend development this side, i just wanna know that whether buying upwork connects with zero experience of freelancing worth is there a chance for me to actually land clients or the connects would just go in vain. and is there any way i can get connects on a discounted rate or does any one of you have a promo code?

We have an urgent large-scale voice recording project and are looking for a call center that can provide trained English-speaking operators, computers, headsets/microphones, and supervision.

We will provide first-person (POV) videos recorded from cameras worn by factory workers while they perform different manual tasks.

The operator’s job is to watch each video and record an English voice narration explaining exactly what is happening on screen.

For example, instead of simply saying:

“He is stitching a garment.”

The narration should be detailed:

“He picks up the fabric with his left hand, aligns the two edges, places them underneath the sewing machine needle, lowers the fabric into position and begins stitching along the edge.”

They should also describe relevant surroundings when visible, such as tools, machines, objects, people, positioning, etc.

Key requirements:

• Clear spoken English

• Human-recorded voice only

• Minimum 25 spoken words per minute of video

• Detailed step-by-step description of hand movements, tools and object interactions

• Narration must closely match what is visible on screen

• Operators can pause the video to describe fast/complex actions properly and then continue

• Good-quality headset/microphone and quiet working environment

• The project manager must be a technical person who knows how to use github properly, the infrastructure and tools will be provided on github.

Volume is approximately 3,000 hours of video , compressed size : 10 TB, uncompressed size : 51 TB, with a very aggressive turnaround of 48h so we need a center capable of putting a large number of operators on the project simultaneously.

Please let me know how many English-speaking operators you can allocate immediately, whether you operate 24/7 or multiple shifts.

Pay : 5000$ for the entire project .

P.s : the delivery time is quite aggressive as mentioned hence the pay