DJN

You should try to solve local problems first. A popular solution in foreign countries may not have good crossover appeal in Nigeria.

Fortunately or unfortunately, Nigeria has several problems looking for solutions. Examples include helping people travel around more securely, finding affordable healthcare, enabling MSMEs to find more customers.

Office 365?

Excuse the pedanticism but I assume what you meant was "YC portfolio companies showing HN what they have built"

This is a deeply patronising and offensive statement. The ancient Benin kingdom from which these artifacts were stolen still remains till today and despite corruption in the country, they have managed to keep all their remaining artifacts safe through the centuries.

Nigeria’s corruption problem is orthogonal to its ability to keep its sacred cultural artifacts safe. In fact due to deep cultural and religious reasons, the chances that Nigerians would rob the Oba (King) of Benin’s palace is near zero.

I say this with the full authority of being a native of said country and culture.

It’s because where the money goes is where it circulates, which ultimately affects the GDP.

Every dollar that leaves India, Nigeria or any other developing country is one less dollar that can pay for jobs (plumbers, electricians, doctors etc) in the local market.

South Africa used to have very restrictive currency export controls partly due to apartheid-era sanctions, and one consequence is that it stimulated domestic production and innovation, perhaps far more than any other African country. They’ve now relaxed those controls but it is arguable that they were necessary at that stage of their economic development.

From the article: “NIBSS Instant Payment is so far, the most innovative and revolutionary e-payment solution designed by NIBSS to service the banking industry. NIP is the first and only point to point funds transfer service that guarantees instant value to the beneficiary. Nigeria is the only country in Africa and essentially, the world to have deployed such a solution.”

From first hand use, the platform delivers sub 30 second Interbank transfers, serves over 180 million people across Nigeria, complete with 2-factor security, and SMS notifications to both parties. The transaction cost is N100 (USD 0.33) and it has been operational since 2011.

It makes you wonder if the $15-$30 wire transfer fees in the US is a severe case of regulatory capture.

I wish I could upvote this twice. Distribution is the biggest problem in mobile.

I'll add that even after acquiring a user, engagement, apathy, and not being a 24-hour uninstall statistic are close seconds.

I'm working on a solution that's currently in private beta but it should be in public beta in a few weeks.

I'm not sure why you are being downvoted. @watter's comment was in extremely bad taste.

Frankly, i expected him/her to apologise because the comment

1) Sought to impugn kangpe's achievements,

2) maligned an entire country whose official language is English, and

3) went against HN's guidelines on civility.

New tech (including dev tools) will get simpler over time and adapt to the needs of the market.

Take web pages as an example. Circa 1995, only a relatively few technical people could weave the HTML magic to create them. Fast-forward 10 years, and 5 year old kids were creating them for fun. The demand for web pages continued to increase and eventually the tools to help the majority of people create them emerged naturally.

IMO, the same will apply to app development tools.