u/shreepaach

Hey everyone, I'm from Nepal. My parents live here in Manali and do labour work to keep food on the table. I study BSc CSIT back home.

I didn't want to come this Dashain and Diwali because the ticket money is basically a week of their hard work. They pushed me anyway, so here I am.

It's been a week and honestly I'm just sitting in the room. I spent 3 days walking into hotels and restaurants asking if they had any work, but everyone wanted someone permanent. Fair enough, I get it. But watching my parents go to work every morning while I stay home, and then eating the food they earned, hurts a bit.

I'll be here around 1.5 months, so I'm looking for any short work. I can handle social media, make banners and posters, help your place get more customers online, do data entry and basic accounts, and manage bookings. I'm also fine with plain physical work like setting up beds or rooms. Whatever's needed.

If you've got anything, even small, please message me. Thank you 🙏

I started a full stack course and learned a lot about frontend and backend. Along the way I got interested in automating things and came up with my own project idea. The irony is that I've used Claude the whole time.

Still, I understand the concepts. On the frontend (React, Tailwind, Framer Motion), I follow the flow of axios client service files hooks/components. on the backend, I use an MVC-style structure with routes, middleware, and controllers (Mongoose models). I've worked with cloudinary for images and MongoDB Atlas for user data, and I've learned how to build REST APIs, connect them to a database, and handle requests.

The honest part: I can't write more than 50% of this code from scratch. But I can read it, understand it, and explain how it works. I've also debugged real problems myself, like MongoDB Atlas IP whitelist issues, controller export mismatches, and stuck processes. I built the mobile navbar hamburger menu step by step on my own.

What I built is a full café ordering app where customers can order drinks and meals online. It has:

Khalti online payment (tested end-to-end in sandbox) and cash on delivery

JWT authentication with httpOnly cookies, plus edge middleware to protect route

An admin panel with full product CRUD, restricted so regular users can't reach it

Cart with global state (Context API), plus a "Buy Now" path that skips the cart

Dynamic product detail pages

Order history for users, and an order view for admins

Responsive design with Tailwind, and Framer Motion animations on the hero

Is this enough to land an internship or a job? Or should I focus on writing more code without AI help first? I'd appreciate honest advice, especially from anyone who started out the same way.