I understand this is a semi experiment and will not expect the warranty or certainty that an Apple will give. This is to support the possibility of making an alternative become viable.

Question for Eric, is there a way to ensure charging works with USB? Please don't make us carry yet another cable.

Thanks.

In 18 month, apps will have APIs for "agentic browsing" ™OoTheNigerian ;)

And you will not need to give anything control over your browser. I you will merely connect your app to OpenAI or any other client.

A glaring omissions is overlooking the origin of the term "woke" in the context it is being used today.

It was around 2010 as a rallying call for black folk to be aware of being taking for a fool. Then the Occupy Protests and Black Lives Matter came next and as usual it was hijacked by more savvy operators.

I am curious to know which States in the US still do not have any companies in YC.

1.The 2020 protesters did not begin vandalizing property, but government infiltrated the protests by burning cars and maiming people.

2. The Obidient movement encompassed multiple sub movements of which a part of the #EndSARS was one of them. A vast majority of Peter Obi's supporters were not #EndSARS activists.

3. Elections in Nigeria are fraught with treacherous behavior so everyone suspects everything. It's important to be very careful with your communication. There is a lot of desperation in the land and so if in a position of information leverage, the responsible thing is to handle the privilege with care and transparency.

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Perpetuating nasty cliché tropes lead to stereotyping. Perhaps, that's your intention or not, but I just need to inform you and your ilk, that anytime a Nigerian is unfairly discriminated against off or online, you contributed to it.

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As part of my advisory business, I've seen a few companies tackling this in Africa. My biggest question has been, isn't this a "feature" than can be deployed by the existing Payroll companies?

These days we have a lot of Credit As A Service companies. Why can't a Payroll service connect to them and provide this service as an add on.

To summarize my question: can your innovation get distribution before the Payroll services get (this) innovation?

Or wouldn't you inadvertently have to encroach into that space eventually?

Or do you see yourself extending towards the credit side of things?

All the best!

The format is ok, sometimes it seems a lot of unnecessary details are added. This encourages skimming through thereby making important aspects vulnerable to skipping.

Again, with the reality that there will be more startups launching, limiting the word count will be helpful and make people read more launches.

I was already typing this before your comment articulated it excellently.

Dang, I am assuming how people see comments is randomised? So the part 2 of the comment (those that did not make it will all have an equal chance to be seen).

Assuming it is not asking for too much customisation, these summary threads can go down much slower than the usual one person Launch HN.

For someone that has done a couple of Show HNs [1][2] I would assume you know better.

People plan for their submissions and look forward to reading the comments. You can and should do better.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10799830 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9840990

The next elections are in 2023 so there is no near resolution by the ballot.

There is over 50% unemployment, mega inflation, currency devaluation etc and yet a consistent clampdown on anything deemed progressive by the government.

The truth is, if anything happens to the peace of Nigeria and if only 5%, of its occupants get displaced (10million people) the world will feel it's impact in a very negative way.

Unfortunately, thanks to COVID, Brexit et al, no one is paying attention so the government assumes it has it has a freehand.

Unfortunately for them, our population is very young, quite adept at adapting, innovative etc. So I do not see us backing down. Despite the worst of policies, there has been unprecedented growth in our tech startup scene (YC can testify)

So for now, we watch.

After sustained uproar and outrage, Twitter deleted the Tweet.

Blocking Twitter is the response.

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For background context: This government is very unpopular. Twitter has been the medium where the atrocities of the government has been publicized. Last year there was a very popular protest #ENDSARS (campaigning against police brutalization and killings) to which Jack Dorsey made a donation.

Earlier this year, Twitter opened their West African office in Ghana. It was seen as a massive snub and embarrassment to Nigeria. So the government has had a hurt ego brewing for a while.

PS: The great irony is that this government used the influence of social media to get into power. So this is them throwing down the ladder after using it.

AMA.

Of course the business model limits the number of people that would try it however, perhaps the target market would be businesses interested in controlling the browsing of their employees. For security and other purposes.

All the best Suhail and congratulations on your launch.

This is brilliant and looks well executed. It is definitely well positioned to replace the wish list, review list, registry etc.

How do you avoid the distraction that comes with solving a problem that can pull you in too many directions? This can easily become a Pinterest, Affiliate shops, Price monitoring, coupon code sharing etc.

What are your plans to stay focused while listening to your users?

I signed up and sent you guys an email too!

PS: You may want to make referral links vs text (we pay per text message in many countries). A link will let up put it on our WhatsApp status etc.

So it depends.

On the individual level, I have seen people transform the lives of their families by learning to code.

This is one https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-i-went-from-programmin...