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the pressure
the pressure@larabillionaire·
The money I’m making now knows its father, the one I’m looking for is bastard money. I need to make bastard money.
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Akpor Ikogho
Akpor Ikogho@legal_padi·
Quite an unfortunate story. A founder mentioned it to me this evening . Basically, Kled is a data marketplace app that pays people to upload data photos, documents etc to train AI Models. Some sharp guys found it early and signed up in huge numbers. But instead of uploading real, useful data, they started uploading junk black screens, duplicate images, AI generated pictures etc. At one point, 95 out of every 100 uploads from Nigeria were fraudulent. Ie the company was paying out money for worthless data and fake identities. As a startup, Kled couldn’t absorb that loss & additional compliance cost so they pulled the app from Nigeria and blocked the country. The real cost to us isn’t the app leaving though . It’s the cumulative reputational damage that raises barriers for every legitimate Nigerian founder trying to access foreign capital, every developer trying to get approved on international platforms, every user trying to do KYC on a global product. I hope our behavior changes soon.
Avi Patel@avipat_

We have removed Kled from the Nigerian app store and IP banned the entire region. The first thing I would like to say is I have nothing against Nigeria. I have a ton of friends from this region and these were some of our earliest app adopters. Genuinely, thank you all for the support. Kled has been up and running and out of beta for 4 months now. We have paid out hundreds of thousands of people for their data, and our users have uploaded over 1 billion assets onto our platform. After several months of uploads we found that Nigeria had a ≈95% fraud rate. Instead of real, usable data, users were uploading pictures of black screens, duplicate photos, internet generated images, AI generated images, etc. at an unimaginable scale. In comparison, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines have a less than 10% fraud rate across 10x the userbase size. Our fraud system is fast to catch these issues but the level of complexity of these schemes is getting out of hand. This weekend we were flooded with thousands of fake Japanese passports and identity cards with Nigerians photoshopped onto them in our KYC system. That was the final straw. As a startup we can't afford to eat the costs of that data overhead, so we temporarily removed the app from the region while we improved our fraud detection and banning system to quickly filter out bad actors when the time is right. On top of all of this, every time we make a post there is someone asking us to bring the region back within seconds. We hear you, but it's gotten out of hand. We've made this decision with great care. We love everyone who has genuinely supported Kled from Nigeria, and we hope to return when the time is right. -Kled Team

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tohceen@tohceen·
Sigh.
Avi Patel@avipat_

We have removed Kled from the Nigerian app store and IP banned the entire region. The first thing I would like to say is I have nothing against Nigeria. I have a ton of friends from this region and these were some of our earliest app adopters. Genuinely, thank you all for the support. Kled has been up and running and out of beta for 4 months now. We have paid out hundreds of thousands of people for their data, and our users have uploaded over 1 billion assets onto our platform. After several months of uploads we found that Nigeria had a ≈95% fraud rate. Instead of real, usable data, users were uploading pictures of black screens, duplicate photos, internet generated images, AI generated images, etc. at an unimaginable scale. In comparison, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines have a less than 10% fraud rate across 10x the userbase size. Our fraud system is fast to catch these issues but the level of complexity of these schemes is getting out of hand. This weekend we were flooded with thousands of fake Japanese passports and identity cards with Nigerians photoshopped onto them in our KYC system. That was the final straw. As a startup we can't afford to eat the costs of that data overhead, so we temporarily removed the app from the region while we improved our fraud detection and banning system to quickly filter out bad actors when the time is right. On top of all of this, every time we make a post there is someone asking us to bring the region back within seconds. We hear you, but it's gotten out of hand. We've made this decision with great care. We love everyone who has genuinely supported Kled from Nigeria, and we hope to return when the time is right. -Kled Team

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Aunty Teda
Aunty Teda@imoteda·
I understand small businesses who can’t pay big salaries. They simply aren’t making enough revenue to cover such. Most barely make profit. But you can’t be talking about profit in billions and telling me you’re struggling to find talent. Better get to training or increase your pay. While it is true that there is a serious talent problem in Nigeria (that’s only going to get worse as education worsens), there is still talent. The ones getting hired and moving abroad are not ghosts. You just don’t want to pay. Also the people doing yahoo are not applying to work in your company PLEASE!
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UI/UX
UI/UX@Ajayfizzy·
My fan moves from primary to secondary colors when rotating 💯
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culture jpeg
culture jpeg@culturejpg·
Back in 2003 when Michael Jackson shut down a supermarket so he could shop like a regular customer
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tohceen@tohceen·
Craving cold garri. Lord help me.
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