Henry 👨🏾‍💻🌐

Hey Twitter 💙 I am Henry, front-end #Vuejs developer (full stack in view). I am naturally a creative and critical thinker, I love being optimistic. My journey into Tech started some while ago (2yrs now). I am just fascinated by technology, and I hope to become an Engineer too

Poverty is the mother of creativity #MadUnicorn

Students are REALLY using LeAi 👀 Last few weeks: 79,060 page views 33,513 scroll interactions 21,733 sessions started 10,104 engagement events 9,019 first visits Total: 154,812 events in the past couple weeks The best part? This growth is mostly organic. Students are sharing study links, revisiting practice pages, and building learning habits around AI-powered studying. We’re witnessing the shift And we’re just getting started 🌍🔥 #EdTech #AI #BuildInPublic #Startups #LeAi

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@amarifields_ I am able to recognise my churn rate, and I know $10k will sustain me up to 12 months, if I am choosing the lean route.

serious question is a $1k-$10k investment actually enough to help founders today or are we underestimating how expensive it’s become just to survive while building

@mk_tycoon @amarifields_ Thank you! Kindly check your DM i sent a reply

@Hen_ode @amarifields_ Well done

if you’re building and need a first check between $1k-$10k lvlup ventures just launched its first check fund investing at the micro stage before the full product, traction, or attention is there

@jedwhite Thank you Jed

@Hen_ode Good luck! Don't think of the YC application so much as a pitch (it's really not), but as a chance to talk meaningfully about what you're building and how people use it, and what you can achieve quickly. Good luck!!

YC has extended S26 applications until May 25th. It's because of the massive opportunity for founders: OpenAI offering $2m in tokens for all companies in the batch. Need a last minute application review? My DMs are open. I'll try to get to as many as possible over the weekend

You're right David, I've spent 24+ months on building products research and iterating at every junction but I still don't feel like I have done enough. We just rolled out in beta, and we're getting a fast validation Kindly check out what we're building below x.com/i/status/20569…

Founders overestimate how hard it is to become a top 100 expert on most subjects. For most things you need to solve, there’s usually a very clear path: just go do the work, obsessively, and become friends with everyone else doing it.

@Loganullyott Hi Logan I am building a very fast growing Edtech AI startup, we've crossed 5k users less than 30 day, and we're close to 10k user. ThoI was rejected by @a16z You can please check out what we're building. x.com/i/status/20569…

Hosting a thing for international founders to understand visa options. If you're applying to YC, Speedrun or other accelerators, this is for you. International student looking to start something? This is for you. Drop a comment/ emoji/ whatever and I'll send you the details.

@DarrelFrater @LeAiapp Done, seen your message now. I appreciate

@Hen_ode @LeAiapp Check your DMs

Any founders interested in pitching my friends at Purelite Ventures tomorrow? They’re a healthcare-focused VC firm investing in early stage startups transforming healthcare and improving lives. 💰 Check Size: $100K - $250K Comment “DM” below. Happy to get you connected.

@mk_tycoon @LeAiapp Thank you

@Hen_ode @LeAiapp Congratulations

The Story of the City of Mango: A Lesson for Startups and Angel Investors There was once a place called The City of Mango. The city was famous for producing beautiful mangoes. Every season the markets overflowed with fruit. Entrepreneurs saw opportunity everywhere. One founder said, “People need better baskets to carry mangoes.” He built expensive designer baskets. Another said, “People need faster carts.” He raised money to create premium transport systems. Another created packaging businesses and marketing campaigns for mango sellers. But despite all the innovation, businesses struggled. An old farmer quietly observed the situation and noticed something everyone else had missed: almost 40% of the mangoes were rotting before reaching the market because of poor storage and preservation. Everyone was solving visible problems. No one was solving the real problem. The farmer focused on storage and preservation. Waste dropped, incomes increased, traders earned more, and suddenly every other business around him also benefited. The lesson for startups is simple: Investors do not fund activity; they fund solutions to meaningful problems. As founders, ask: • Is this a real pain point? • Who experiences this problem? • How often does it occur? • Are people already spending money to solve it? • If we disappear tomorrow, would anyone truly miss our solution? As angel investors, one of the biggest mistakes is funding founders who build attractive solutions for weak problems. The strongest investment opportunities often come from founders who have identified a genuine friction point, quantified it, and can demonstrate demand. Great startups are rarely built by asking, “What can I create?” They are built by asking, “What problem keeps people awake at night?” Find the rotten mangoes before you build the basket. #Startups #AngelInvesting #Entrepreneurship #Innovation #ProblemSolving #Founders #Investment #Leadership ⸻

@VoltrexAI Alright, I'm checking now

@Hen_ode Two people, no budget, moving fast, that's when the product has to do the selling. DM'd you.

We're only two building this, and we're so focused on getting our user satisfied with every single line of code we deliver online. We don't have cash for marketing, we run organically, we're moving so fast, so you might need to catch the train ⚡⚡ x.com/i/status/20569…

@Afro_Play Thank you so much for the feedback. @Afro_Play

27 minutes average session time is the number that caught my eye. That's not luck, students are actually finding value in what you built. The idea makes sense too, we have no shortage of past questions and textbooks in this country, the problem has always been how to study with them effectively. You're solving that. But where are you on monetization? And are you going deep on local curriculum, JAMB, WAEC, NECO? Because that's your real moat. The moment you own that lane, no foreign competitor can easily come and displace you.

Hey African founders If your product solves a real problem, drop it here and tell us what problem it solves. Deal? 🤝

@Afro_Play Yes absolutely, we have our business model fully developed, but we're in beta phase.

@Jasielinvests Funny how, I couldn't even afford to pay a penny video editor, and we just built a video animation with code using using html and css.

The talent you need to get from seed to Series A is almost always more expensive than you can pay. The job is to make your company worth the discount.

@Jasielinvests I don't even have any deck at the moment, I am so busy building and shipping fast. I don't have excuses tho, but building and getting constant feedback from users is highly demanding. You can check out what we're building here We just crossed 5k users x.com/i/status/20569…

Most investors see 1000 pitch decks a year and invest in only 10. With the volume of deals, investors have to make decisions on companies to explore further in a limited time. Many first-time founders misuse that time by reading the deck out to investors. That leaves very little time for questions and fails to effectively communicate the problem you are solving. Here is the sequence that works: ✅ Start with the world as it is. Before you introduce your company, make the investor understand what is painful, who it is painful for, and how painful it actually is. Give it scale. Give it texture. If they cannot feel the problem by the end of your first two minutes, the rest of the pitch is swimming upstream. ✅ Connect your solution directly to what you just described. Do not pivot to features. Pivot to the specific pain points you named and show exactly how your product addresses each one. The question you are answering here is "why does this exist." ✅Use metrics that prove demand. Revenue, retention, and growth among a defined segment will do more work than user counts and download numbers. If someone who has never heard of you could look at your numbers and say "people clearly need this," you have the right metrics. What I am looking for in a first meeting is not evidence that you built something. It is evidence that something was genuinely broken before you arrived, that your solution is the logical response to that break, and that real people are already telling you so with their wallets. What part of your current pitch would you cut if you only had ten minutes?

@ItsSigmaFreud Real one Kindly check out what we're building x.com/i/status/20569…

@mk_tycoon Valid points, and I can proudly say we stress test all the key details you mentioned, and now we've pivoted. Kindly check out what we're building x.com/i/status/20569…

Finding a startup idea is often not the hard part. Finding a real problem worth solving is where value is created. For founders seeking early-stage investment, investors are not only asking, “Is this a good product?” They are asking, “Is this a painful enough problem that people will pay to solve it?” Here are a few ways founders can identify meaningful problems: • Listen before building — spend time with customers and understand their frustrations, bottlenecks, and unmet needs. • Follow repeated complaints — if many people or businesses keep saying, “There has to be a better way,” pay attention. • Solve problems you understand — founders with personal or industry experience often identify deeper opportunities others miss. • Look for inefficiencies — long processes, expensive systems, manual work, and fragmented solutions often create startup opportunities. • Test before scaling — validate demand through conversations, pilots, or a simple MVP before investing heavily. Investors are attracted to startups that solve problems that are: ✔ Large enough to create a market ✔ Painful enough that customers want a solution ✔ Frequent enough that people keep returning ✔ Clear enough that the value proposition is obvious A startup does not succeed because the idea sounds exciting. It succeeds because the problem is real. The best businesses are often built by founders who became obsessed with understanding a problem before becoming attached to a solution. #Startups #Entrepreneurship #AngelInvesting #Innovation #Founders #EarlyStage #Investment #StartupGrowth