Saviour Ukobong

AI in 2022: "This is interesting." AI in 2023: "This is useful." AI in 2024: "This is dangerous." AI in 2025: "This is my co-founder." Where are you in this timeline? Because I'm already at co-founder. 🤝 😀 #AI #BuildInPublic #AfricanTech #Tech

How I built 3 apps with AI this year: → Claude for architecture decisions → Gemini for in-app intelligence → Cursor for writing the actual code → ChatGPT for second opinions → Firebase for backend Total team size: 1 Total location: Abuja, Nigeria AI is the great equalizer

Something nobody told me about building AI products in Africa: Your users don't care about the AI. They care about the result. "Did it help me learn faster?" "Did it save me money?" "Did it solve my problem?" AI is the engine. Value is the product. #AI #AfricanTech #Build

@0xAfterSnow Apt.

how to grow a Web3 product (with solid engineering and distribution): first, i'd build for discoverability. launch a free tool that solves one specific pain - bulk cleanup, rate-limited automation, anything people search for. make it work before you make it pretty. write one technical post explaining how it works under the hood. then i'd build trust through transparency. document the auth flow, explain what data you store and why, publish the architecture decisions. builders trust builders who show their work. next, i'd treat distribution like infrastructure. one working product becomes a thread, a short demo, a write-up, and a reddit comment in the right subreddit. find where your users already complain and show up there with a solution, not a pitch. i'd also automate the boring ops early. session management, rate limiting, cleanup jobs - build it once, make it reliable, then tell people about it. the product is the marketing. and i'd ship lead magnets for the technical crowd: open-source a small piece of the stack, publish a breakdown of the MTProto implementation, drop a free tool with a clear use case. the builders winning in Web3 aren't the loudest. they're the ones who made something that actually works and documented it well enough that others trust it. you still need to know who has the problem and why they haven't solved it yet. build that answer into the product itself.

@Surendar__05 Give it to me and see in 30 days

Be honest, if I give you this laptop, what will you use it for?

We are not in an AI revolution. We are in an AI gold rush. The difference? Gold rush winners weren't the miners. They were the ones selling shovels. Build the tools. Don't just use them. 🛠️ #AI #BuildInPublic #AfricanTech #Tech

@Priyannkaaaa Right here

I want to connect with people who are into: LLMs AI automation Building with Claude

@coderaw_ Stitch

As a developer which one do you prefer for designing UI?

The loneliest moment in building isn't when you fail. It's when you succeed and have nobody to call who truly understands what it took. Build in public. Your audience becomes your celebration. 🔥 #BuildInPublic #SoloFounder #AfricanTech #DevLife

Most people don't have an idea problem. They have a courage problem. The idea is there. The tools are free. The market is hungry. The only missing ingredient is you pressing start. #BuildInPublic #AfricanTech #IndieHacker #AI

@poteto I think it's not about the number of chefs who are cooking. It's about the fact that the solution monopoly has been decentralized. Now everyone can afford to build simple systems to solve their business needs. I see this as a good thing. So, yeah, everyone should cook.

everyone is cooking but who is eating

@yabsssai This is good to hear.

i completely agree about local loyalty being stronger. from my own experience, i saw it with my project that targeted underbanked populations in my home region - when we genuinely listened to their needs and tailored our solution, the local community rallied around us, providing valuable feedback and eventually making our product indispensable.

Hot take: The African developer who builds for African problems will always outlast the one copying Western products. Local pain is deeper. Local knowledge is sharper. Local loyalty is stronger. Build local. Scale continental. 🌍 #AfricanTech #Nigeria #BuildInPublic #Startups

Hot take: Your MVP doesn't need to be beautiful. It needs to be useful. Ugly products with real value beat beautiful products with none. Every. Single. Time. Ship the ugly version. 🚀 #BuildInPublic #IndieHacker #Startups #AfricanTech

Controversial: Social media followers don't validate your product. Paying users do. I'd rather have 10 users paying ₦5,000/month than 10,000 followers who never clicked the signup link. Revenue is the real metric. 💰 #BuildInPublic #IndieHacker #Startups #AfricanTech

Only developers will understand this. The process is simple - Build, fix, learn, repeat. 🔁 #Developer #CodingLife

@pavelhegler Thank you for the connection 😊

@sgukobong Amazing, welcome on board man🥳

If you're a: vibe coder agentic nomad yolo shipper permission skipper agent shepherd token maximalist aura prompter Please say hi and let's connect 🛜

Unpopular opinion: Most people don't have an idea problem. They have a courage problem. The idea is there. The tools are free. The market is hungry. The only missing ingredient is you pressing start. #BuildInPublic #AfricanTech #IndieHacker #AI

@foxtomb232 Asterscholar.com

Hey founders!! Share what you’ve built this week. 👇

As a builder who's shipped real products and actually made things work - Can't count how many times in the early days I felt completely stuck. Nothing deploying right, no traction, systems breaking, felt like every fix introduced two new problems. But I'd always come back to "what else am I gonna do, stop building?" There was no other option. Just because your stack feels broken and your progress invisible doesn't mean you're not moving forward. Keep shipping. Keep iterating. You'll look back one day grateful you didn't quit when the infra was on fire and nobody was watching.