Waseem API
What Problems Can I Solve
- Build websites, Android applications, Windows applications, video games
- Find or create cheaper solutions compared to existing ones
- Automate repetitive workflows for users
- Add AI filtering to data
- Find existing solutions
- Provide technical advice for existing companies
- Be present as a technical advisor for online meetings
- Program drones and robotics but need 2-3 month delay to get up to speed as my knowledge isn't in depth
- Program software for vending machines or neon lights
- Improve existing website speeds or optimize storage usage
- Add data analysis capabilities for businesses
- I can infiltrate (not hack) a company across all management levels and restructure their operation procedures to make them save time and money and produce fewer errors
What can I ship in a day?
- A quick inaccurate project proposal
- A landing page
What takes a week to deliver?
- Detailed project proposal, with plan and pricing
- A software prototype
- A Figma UI design for software
- Fix problems for existing software such as bugs or performance issues
What requires a month of my time?
- MVP for a software product (2 to 4 weeks)
- Ecommerce solution (2 to 4 weeks)
- Redesign existing websites (1 to 4 weeks)
What requires 3 months of my time?
- Fully featured custom software - like employee management software, payroll calculation, phone app, and management dashboard all as one solution
What requires 6 months of my time?
- A video game that is not a simple idea takes 4 to 6 months
What requires collaboration vs solo work?
- Working alone works at 100% speed
- Working with a team of 2 developers works at 150% speed, not 200% (coordination tax)
What technical emergencies can I handle?
- Securing a hacked system
- Backing up data and restoring it
What integration problems can I handle?
- I can make glue software (make two pieces of software talk to each other)
- I can set up cloud servers, local hardware or storage hard drives to manage data backup solutions
What I Can't or Won't Deliver
- I charge 3 times as much to work on custom code that isn't open source and well documented, without being able to contact the original developer
- I charge 2 times as much to work on custom code without being able to contact the original developer
- I won't charge extra if you ask me to start from scratch
- I can develop apps for Apple's App Store but I have no prior experience, I'd need 2 weeks to adjust
- I can't hack or mod for video games - too much time investment for my current level of experience
- I won't do tasks for the team that AI can do
- Professional-grade video editing
- Graphic design for ads
- Paid social media marketing
- I won't make a proposal without a meeting with the stakeholder or without an extensively written requirements list
Quality and Reliability
What needs extensive collaboration to complete?
- Fully working business: it needs marketing and brochures, QA testing, external feedback
- Attracting customers
What might need someone to double-check?
- Software that is done in less than 2 weeks because it's not worth it to create automated testing for (due to ROI constraints)
What makes me work faster?
- As much information about the work environment for the request solutions with as many examples as possible
- Scribble of your idea on pen and paper
- Scribble of your UI design on pen and paper
Boundaries That Matter
What help actually hurts more than helps?
- Using AI to perform actions, without the human removing unnecessary fluff provided by the AI. I refuse to read these text blocks
What assumptions about my role are wrong?
- That I know everything related to computers. What I know is what to search for efficiently, I am good at finding answers, that's my job. Mastering all of computer science will take 150 to 250 years of my life