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Don't ask for guidelines. Take your time and guide yourself.

DevChangeMakers runs free, hands-on events for students in Dhaka and beyond, and keeps a map of the two roads most CS students end up choosing between. You pick the road. We show up with the events, the people, and the resources.

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Free entry to every eventNo paid courses or upsellsTwo self-guided pathsOpen slides and code

Guide yourself

Tech is far bigger than web development, app development, video editing and competitive programming. Cloud, data, security, research, embedded systems and more are open to you.

Two halves. Same starting point.

Most CS students in Bangladesh end up choosing between building a career in industry and going abroad for a master's or PhD. Pick a path to see its stops. Nobody is waiting at the end to grade you.

Before you pick

Spend one day researching, then decide

Whether you're in first year or have already graduated and are moving into software engineering, start the same way. Give yourself one or two semesters at most to decide. Longer than that and you lose time you could spend going deep.

Read the trends

Look at where industry and research are heading this year, globally and in Bangladesh.

Think it through with AI

Use an AI assistant to question your assumptions and fill in what you don't know yet.

Talk to someone in industry

One honest conversation with a working engineer tells you more than ten forum threads.

Talk to a professor abroad

Ask what their students did before joining, and what they do after.

Then make the call yourself. Nobody knows where the world is going, or which path suits you, better than you do. Other people can give you information. The decision is yours.

    There is no fixed path. It takes trial and error, some risks, some calculated risks, sometimes the goal of reaching the top 1%, and some luck. The people at the top needed all of them.

    This is a map, not a syllabus. Steps and years are rough. Skip stops you've passed, stay longer where you need to, and switch paths whenever you want. Ask seniors on Discord when you're stuck on a specific problem.

    Think in orders of magnitude5,000years

    One idea can be worth more than a lifetime of salary. Several lifetimes, in fact.

    At ৳20 lakh a month, the top end of corporate pay in Bangladesh, it would take about 5,000 years to earn one billion dollars. A product that solves a real problem for enough people can create that much value in a decade.

    ৳20 lakh × 12 = ৳2.4 crore a year · $1 billion ≈ ৳12,000 crore at ~৳120/$ · 12,000 ÷ 2.4 = 5,000 years

    Real example · Cursor

    Cursor was started by four MIT students in 2022. One of them, Sualeh Asif, is from Karachi. By November 2025, Forbes estimated each co-founder's stake at over $1.3 billion, at age 25 or 26. In August 2026, SpaceX completed its $60 billion acquisition of the company, which Forbes estimated would put each founder at about $2.7 billion.

    Forbes: Cursor's co-founders are now billionaires SpaceX deal doubles their net worth The story on LinkedIn

    Most ventures fail, and that is part of the deal. You only find out by building. Whichever path you choose, keep a side project going.

    Events

    Free meetups, built around the tools you'll actually use.

    Upcoming

    Event calendar on Luma

    Every upcoming DevChangeMakers meetup, workshop and watch party is listed on our Luma calendar. Subscribe once and new events land in your own calendar.

    Past events · materials on GitHub

      Monthly events · Project Hub

      One event a month. One real project each time.

      Every DevChangeMakers event builds a working project with several tools together. The code, setup steps and prompts go into the Project Hub, one folder per month, so you can rebuild it at home.

      Browse the Project Hub on GitHub →

      Learn

      Session recordings and playlists

      Missed a session? Recordings and tutorial series live on YouTube, grouped by topic.

      Field notes

      Need motivation? Start here.

      Short videos and posts where people talk about real work, real careers and how the world actually works. Picked by the community, one line on why each is worth your time.

      Suggest one on Discord ↗

      Programs

      Community programs you can grow into

      Ambassador, champion and builder programs run by the companies behind the tools you use. They bring credits, swag, early access and a direct line to the product team. Most look for a track record: talks, blog posts, events or open-source work.

      Applications open and close in cohorts. If a page says closed, join the waitlist and keep building in public until it reopens.

      Culture

      What we're changing in our own community

      Recognition

      Appreciate what should be appreciated

      When a student ships a project, fixes a bug in someone else's repo, or gives their first talk, we say so out loud. Credit goes to the people who did the work, not the loudest name in the room.

      Visibility

      Use X and LinkedIn well

      Post what you built and what you learned, not just certificates. Follow builders, share their work, and treat your profile as a public notebook that recruiters and professors will actually read.

      Free events

      No catch. No edtech.

      Our events are free and unpaid. There's no course to buy at the end, no "premium batch", and no registration fee hidden behind a form. Sponsors support the room, not a sales pitch.

      Communities

      Groups that are part of DevChangeMakers

      Each group runs its own meetups around one technology. Follow the ones you care about to hear about their next event first.

      Team

      The people behind DevChangeMakers

      Volunteers who plan the events, find the speakers and keep everything free. Want to help run the next one? Say hello on Discord.

      Reach out

      Community members you can ask for guidance

      Members who have been through open-source programs and are happy to answer questions. Message them on LinkedIn.

      Nobody here is above you. They started earlier, and that's the only difference. Network with them, take their guidance, and go further than they did.

      Do your own research first, then ask one specific question. "How did you prepare your GSoC proposal?" gets an answer. "Please guide me" usually doesn't. Their time is volunteered, so be patient if a reply takes a while.

      Find your people on Discord

      Event announcements, study groups, project feedback, and seniors who've walked both paths. Come in, introduce yourself, and ask specific questions.

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