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akbarnamaon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2025)

SEEKING WORK | India | Remote

I am available to work about 20-30 hours per week. I have been doing web application development in Django for the past 12 years. I love to solve problems which makes life easier for the users. Last year, I built https://anibot.chat/ using RAG and OpenAI for https://www.londonbicycle.com/.

Open to remote, deliverables-based or contract work.

Location: Mumbai, India

Remote: Yes

Technologies: Django, Javascript, HTML, CSS

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vishalsodani.

Github: http://github.com/vishalsodani/

Website: http://vishalsodani.com/freelance-experience/

Email: vishalsodani@gmail.com

akbarnamaon Learn How to Solve from the World Champion of Solving

https://lichess.org/study/nCj9zhbM/66Wb97Xu

akbarnamaon Mixtral of experts

If possible, please share, how was the shopping assistant helping out a consumer in the buying process? What were the features?

akbarnamaon India tamed Twitter and set a global standard for online censorship

https://web.archive.org/web/20231110114455/https://www.washi...

akbarnamaon Ask HN: How do I train a custom LLM/ChatGPT on my own documents?

I explored privateGPT today and gave it a source of documents in txt format. It worked well for some queries but for some it gave responses which were not part of the source documents. Any tips on fixing this? There is an open issue for this problem - https://github.com/imartinez/privateGPT/issues/517

akbarnamaon Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?

https://vishalsodani.com

I infrequently post about anything I feel like. Some older posts, which were exported from the wordpress version of the blog, are a bit badly formatted.

I am using Zola and github actions to publish.

akbarnamaon Fastmail DNS Down?

I am also facing the same issue.

Now, the status page is showing https://www.fastmailstatus.com/services/general/2021-10-08, some dns issues.

"Some users might be experiencing DNS resolution issue on their domains and email delays. We are currently investigating."

akbarnamaon Static site generators to watch in 2021

I have also recently shifted my blog from Wordpress to Zola. Happy so far!

https://vishalsodani.com/programming/moved-to-zola/

akbarnamaon Show HN: Flashcards to learn AWS skills

Hi,

Thanks for creating this.

I have forked and I am running the app locally. But, I don't see any button for creating the cards.

Edit: I had to manually change the visibility style in styles.css and then it worked.

akbarnamaon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2021)

SEEKING WORK | Mumbai, India | Remote

I have 15+ years of experience. I have developed web apps in Django since 7+ years. Recently launched an app with API in Flask and front-end in react-native.

I am looking for work in Rust. I am available for 20 hours per week.

Technologies: Django, Flask, React Native, Python, Rust

Email: vishalsodani@gmail.com

akbarnamaon Goodreads Is Broken

Thanks! I got some exciting suggestions when I tried for "The Unknown Errors of Our Lives"; especially "Though I Get Home".

akbarnamaon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2019)

Location: Mumbai, India

Remote: YES - Experienced working remote since 2009

Willing to relocate: YES

Technologies: Python, Django, Rust, React

Résumé/CV: https://linkedin.com/in/vishalsodani/

Email: vishalsodani@gmail.com ====================================

I love exploring new programming languages which expose me to a new paradigm or a new way of thinking. I am currently exploring Rust and made http://mypaper.vishalsodani.com using actix-web. I also made https://words.vcreation.xyz in Sanic, a python async webframework. I am planning to learn Forth in next few months.

I am hoping to work on a rust project.

akbarnamaon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2019)

Looking for maintenance work on Django platform or fixing performance issues in wordpress blogs. I am available for 20 hours per week.

Location: Mumbai, India

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Maybe

Technologies: Linux, Full-Stack, Django, React

CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vishalsodani/

Email: vishalsodani@gmail.com

akbarnamaon Ask HN: What has been your most rewarding job or project and why?

Educo, a charity, were struggling to setup their website in joomla for 2 months. They had a windows hosting space and were facing issues. Helped them to setup a wordpress installation and move them to a new linux hosting space. Finished the work in 4 days.

akbarnamaon Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken?

Most fun and learnt a lot in Introduction to Mathematical Thinking taught by Keith Devlin. I did this course from Coursera in 2012. The most fun part was the forum where students collaborated to discuss and gain better understanding of the problems.

akbarnamaon A new data leak hits Aadhaar, India's national ID database

https://twitter.com/zackwhittaker/status/977273903658696704 Some comments

akbarnamaon Ask HN: Which are your favorite subreddits?

https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy

https://www.reddit.com/r/books

https://www.reddit.com/r/anarchy101

https://www.reddit.com/r/astronomy

akbarnamaon Ask HN: What books have you read in the first half of 2016?

I am Malala by Christina Lamb and Malala Yousafzai

The Children of Men by P D James

akbarnamaon Chess legend Viktor Korchnoi has died

Kasparov's tribute https://www.chess.com/article/view/garry-kasparov-on-viktor-...

akbarnamaon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2016)

SEEKING WORK

I am available to work about 15-20 hours per week. I have been doing web application development in Django for the past 5 years. I love to solve problems which makes life easier for the users. Recently, did SEO optimization for Capybara SEO SAC, of the website dincorsa.com

Wordpress - Recently helped clustox.com with performance optimization. Reduced the loading time from about 25 seconds to about 7 seconds.

Location: Mumbai, India

Remote: Yes

Technologies: Django, Javascript, HTML, CSS

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vishalsodani

Github: http://github.com/vishalsodani/ ( most of my contributions have been related to text )

Website: http://vishalsodani.com/freelance-experience/

Email: vishalsodani@gmail.com

akbarnamaon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2016)

Location: Mumbai, India

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Django, Javascript, HTML, CSS

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vishalsodani

Github: http://github.com/vishalsodani/

Website: http://vishalsodani.com/freelance-experience/

Email: vishalsodani@gmail.com

akbarnamaon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2016)

SEEKING WORK

I am available to work about 15-20 hours per week. I have been doing web application development in Django for past 5 years. I love to solve problems which makes life easier for the users.

Wordpress - Recently helped clustox.com with performance optimization. Reduced the loading time from about 25 seconds to about 7 seconds.

Location: Mumbai, India

Remote: Yes

Technologies: Django, Javascript, HTML, CSS

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vishalsodani

Github: http://github.com/vishalsodani/

Website: http://vishalsodani.com/freelance-experience/

Email: vishalsodani@gmail.com

akbarnamaon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2016)

SEEKING WORK

I am available to work about 15-20 hours per week. I have been doing web application development in Django for past 5 years. I love to solve problems which makes life easier for the users.

Location: Mumbai, India

Remote: Yes

Technologies: Django, Javascript, HTML, CSS

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vishalsodani

Github: http://github.com/vishalsodani/

Website: http://vishalsodani.com/freelance-experience/

Email: vishalsodani@gmail.com

akbarnamaon Something That Changed My Perspective: Karl Polanyi’s the Great Transformation

Counter: http://www.libertarianism.org/blog/karl-polanyis-battle-econ...

akbarnamaon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2016)

SEEKING WORK

I am available to work about 15-20 hours per week. I have been doing web application development in Django for past 5 years. I love to solve problems which makes life easier for the users.

Location: Mumbai, India

Remote: Yes

Technologies: Django, Javascript, HTML, CSS

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vishalsodani

Github: http://github.com/vishalsodani/

Website: http://vishalsodani.com/freelance-experience/

Email: vishalsodani@gmail.com

akbarnamaon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2016)

Location: Mumbai, India

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Maybe

Technologies: Django, Javascript, HTML, CSS