The SRS Classes
A responsive ed-tech platform for competitive-exam aspirants — shipped solo as a freelance contractor, serving 1,500+ daily active users with ~30% faster page loads.
- Role
- Freelance Full Stack Developer
- Status
- Live in production
- Stack
- Next.js · React · MongoDB
Overview
The SRS Classes is an educational web application for students preparing for competitive exams. I built and shipped it as a solo freelance contractor — from first feature to live deployment — and it now serves 1,500+ daily active users with stable, cross-device performance.
The challenge
Exam aspirants browse on whatever device they have, often on slow connections — and a sluggish learning platform quietly costs engagement. The site needed to feel fast and stay reliable as daily traffic climbed into the thousands, all delivered on a freelance timeline by one developer.
Performance work
The headline result was a ~30% reduction in page load times. That came from a deliberate set of optimisations rather than one trick:
- Page load time
- −30%
- Daily active users
- 1,500+
- SSR first paint
- Fast
- Cross-device
- Stable
Owning the lifecycle
As the sole contractor, I owned every stage: feature development, cloud deployment, monitoring, and post-launch maintenance. There was no team to hand off to — which meant decisions had to be sound the first time, and the codebase had to stay maintainable for the person who'd return to it: me.
Key features
- Responsive learning experience across all devices
- Structured course content for competitive exams
- Server-side rendered pages for speed and SEO
- Stable performance at 1,500+ daily active users
- Cloud deployment with post-launch monitoring
- Solo end-to-end build, delivery, and maintenance
Tech stack
Outcome
The SRS Classes is live and used daily by 1,500+ aspirants in their exam preparation. As a solo freelance engagement, it proved I can take a product from brief to production — and keep it fast and dependable once real users arrive.