Darlington Okorie

Here are things you need to successfully build a web app today. 1. Understand frontend and backend. 2. Choose the right framework. 3. Design your database before coding. 4. Plan your API architecture. 5. Set up authentication & authorization. 6. Learn Git and version control.

My app just made $45k in revenue🥳🥳🥳

@Oc_paschal_code Cos of the hype lol

I'm beginning to really like Python. It's so much easier and cleaner compared to JavaScript. But seriously, why is everyone choosing JavaScript??

Data protection terms every engineer touching Nigerian user data should know cold: – NDPC: the regulator – Data localization: local server storage becomes mandatory Jan 2027 – BVN and NIN: different registries, different legal exposure if leaked – AML and CFT: why your onboarding flow can’t skip identity checks Save this. We’ll figure out compliance later is not a strategy

@General_Oluchi General, you might have to do a class to help the rest of us in Nigeria get started 🙏

I joined an investment opportunity two months ago that is projected to earn me up to $8k per year, but I won’t be able to cash out until the end of the three-year term. By the time it matures, I’ll have earned up to $25,000, plus I’ll get my original capital back. Even after 10% tax deductions, I will still have up to $21,000 to play with, but that’s not the only investment I committed to this year. Even if the investment doesn’t appreciate beyond that, I’ll still recover my principal. Three years passes faster than most people think. Before you know it, it’s time to cash out. Why am telling you this? So that you can take investment seriously especially if you live abroad. Choose the right investment opportunity and take a risk. There’s no point in leaving a lot of cash in the bank. Your bank will be grateful for it but that’s financial illiteracy.

If you are starting in Mobile/SaaS, here are some terms you should get familiar with: - Distribution - Attribution - Churn - Retention - Activation - Conversion Rate - Onboarding - Paywall - ASO (App Store Optimization) - MMP

The kind of news that makes the world go round.

I resigned from my job yesterday to focus on Blink full-time. It's make it or make it. 🚀

@fidexcode You don't. Employers need someone who might fill in for absences.

But why do I need backend knowledge to land frontend role?

Congratulations. 🎉 A step at a time.

“When you have projects, you won’t have time to tweet”, na now I just Dey understand 😭

You want 2m users using your app? Make sure your app can handle 200 users first. If everything doesn't crash, you may have done something right.

Compliance is the glue that keeps your app in that spot between trustworthiness and legally viable. Don't play with it. The minute you start building a product, start looking into compliance. This includes documents, terms of use, privacy policy and regional/international laws.

@zyron_tech10 Well, don't compare. I suppose everyone is on their own journey, building their own thang 😁

I am 19, I have built 5 startups over the past 4 years, 4 have failed, and 1 is succeeding. You, what have you done with your life?

Myth 1: you need to be good at maths. No, you don't. All you need is the ability to think. Myth 2: you need to know everything about everything: no, you don't. You'll never stop learning. Myth 3: You need to be a genius. Most devs aren't geniuses. They're people who research.

People often think products are built feature by feature. I've found they're built decision by decision. Every screen, workflow, and interaction is the result of choosing one path over another. This early Maelis recording is simply that process in motion. #ProductThinking

@0xPrajwal_ Well, he's at least building. If I had started building at 17, something would have become big by now. And if nothing did, I'd have learned real big lessons from then.

Vibe coding is crazy, man. Met a 17-year-old who already has 5+ apps. Ignores everyone just to work on them. Pays for both Claude and Codex. Sleeps thinking about features. Wakes up fixing bugs. Launches updates nobody asked for. Refreshes analytics every 10 minutes. Just to have 6 users on the app. 😭 Two of them are his accounts only.

@madebydanl Read it. Good job.

@madebydanl Thank you so much for sharing. Ps: I had responded earlier but I guess there was a glitch cos it didn't send.

Problem solving is not a talent. It’s a way of paying attention. Most people ask: “What should I build?”

@Akintola_steve Waiting to hear your thoughts.

Do you know that remote companies hiring Nigerian developers are not buying your knowledge of NestJS or PostgreSQL, or basically your knowledge of your tech stack, per se?