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We have a task that needs to be completed.
It is a basic data entry task. You will have to search the internet/website for data and record it to google sheets.
I will provide all the instructions and it is pretty straight forward.

- You will need a reliable computer to complete the task.

- You will need a reliable internet connection to complete the task.

- You need to be good at following instructions.

This is a one time task and the pay for the task is N22,000.

It should take about 8-10hrs to complete the task.

UPDATE: I have received enough candidates. Thanks all

Your startup is abujahealthpages.com?

1k001:
Where we're at now

The roller-coaster journey continues as the year drags to a close. I lost a new and promising staff to a bank, replaced with a great guy i found here on nairaland. Happy to say on the whole that the whole experience has been a great one. The learning has been immense and the experience unrivaled.

We will be able to close the year with an ARR in the region of thousands of $$. We're finally seeing some great response in our pipeline and 2016 looks promising. We'll be looking to raise a seed round to fan the flames of our growth and grow out our team to deliver a better product and service.

If anyone is thinking of being an entrepreneur in 2016 consider this quote from Elon Musk (one of the greatest entrepreneurs of our time) - “Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death". I testify to the reality of this quote.

1k001:
Ideas are everywhere so not scared of it being stolen. Like you said, i've pitched in different forums, exhibited and been on TV and Radio so not an issue. Here though I like the fact that i can express general thoughts without fielding specific questions on my own particular start-up. Also like being able to say things openly without prejudice to my startup's interests.

On the customer part, my ideal customers are most unlikely to be reading this thread or even be on Nairaland at all. I'm seeking for reliable and scalable ways to find them. So this forum or even media mentions aren't a customer acquisition focus for me.

You arent making much sense here sir. The title of your post is "My Tech Startup Journey". You talk about your experience and yet you do not want to share you idea. I'm sorry but this does not make sense.

Sorry about your setback.

Selling to Nigerian businesses is very very difficult. It is not the same as selling in the US market.
If you are not promising more money or direct savings on money its hard to convince them to sign the dotted line.
Business owners also respond to products that boost their ego.

I agree a lot with NaLaugh, and like NaLaugh I believe I know what your business is.... I am a developer and actually got a contract to install a similar service for a business.

Starting a business in Nigeria is not easy....Good luck.

Google app engine - FREE (free limit)

I dont really like to read. Can someone explain this article with a video or voice pls

Interesting concept. Its essentially paying a user to watch an ad. Most brands pay the platform (facebook, youtube) to show the ads to the user. You are flipping it and paying that money directly to the user. As long as the free credit earned is greater than the cost of bandwidth I need to use to watch the solicited ad then it can be worth it.

Yes you need a license. Or you can partner with an existing BDC.
BDC will execute the dollar transfers.

Thanks for the responses. Appreciate it.

Hello All,
My team is contemplating on a business idea and we need feedback from you Nairaland members.

Our idea is to help Nigerians deal with common issues we face with our banks. A lot of people have common issues running the bank account in Nigeria. We usually have accounts with multiple banks so we avoid getting ripped off by one bank. We are thinking of creating a web based software that helps to protect and warn you of banking issues you may have as well as help you maximize your banking potential (save you money on fees).

Here are some of the benefits the web software will have:

1. Automatically calculate your monthly COT to ensure bank is charging you the right amount. Warns you if there is a discrepancy.
2. Automatically calculate your monthly SMS charges. Warns you if there is a discrepancy.
3. Analyzes your monthly spending pattern and suggest other types of accounts that can save you money and how much you save if you switch.
4. Determine all the banks exchange rate for currency based on crowdsourcing information. So you can pick the best card/bank to shop internationally.
5. Produces a summary/graph of the monthly credits and debits across all your accounts so you can make better decisions of your spending.
6. View your monthly spending budget and set alerts to warn you when you are over budget.

We think these features will be beneficial to any one banking in Nigeria.
But to make this work we will need users to sign-up and enter their online banking username and password/pin.
The system needs to get your account data to provide you with these valuable resources. This will be done in a safe manner and no transactions can occur on your account with just you online banking username and password/pin. We do *NOT* need your token.

So the question is....

Will you feel comfortable providing your Online banking username/password to have this system monitor your bank accounts?


Please answer yes or no.

9japipper: Thank you for your review. We have taken note of all your concerns

I think they are actually *YOUR* concerns

I sent N5000 to Nairaland test out Nairaland ads. Transferred the money to Seun Zenith Bank account. I then sent an email to .
This was a week ago and I havent gotten any response or any acknowledgment. My ad still stays in Pending state. I have contacted him via Email, Twitter, facebook yet nothing.

We get frustrated with our nation, our institution, our banks, our government why should a private, well run company like Nairaland still add to this frustration. Has the disease of Nigerian anyhowness spread to private internet company. I expected better than this. After all its an area concerning money.

This is sad and I hope someone from Nairaland can help assist and resolve this matter.

Hi All,
You can BUY recharge credits with this app - OwoMobi app

Its the only app that lets you buy recharge credits from MTN, Etisalat, Airtel and Glo

Here is the great part. You can pay with your ATM card. NO FEES charged.

Simple to use

Download here

http://owomobi.com/

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.owomobi

I developed OwoMobi app. Its an app that lets you buy recharge credits from the comfort of your phone.
Its only available as an APP.

You can find it at http://www.owomobi.com

or

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.owomobi

I might be able to provide an API that lets u accept recharge cards as payment from any network.

Try my app, or u can contact me support@owomobi.com

OwoMobi app - Buy recharge credits using the app. (MTN, Etisalat, Airtel)

http://www.owomobi.com

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.owomobi

I am biased but www.owomobi.com has a mobile app you can download to your phone and buy credits anytime. Accepts all niara cards

Amen brother. It might make a little safer but at the terrible expense of user experience.

Plus all these added layers just increases the chance of more transaction failures.

Use eclipse with the google app engine plugin.

1. Create an app engine project
2. Should just be one click to upload war file.

https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/gettingstarted/introduction

Be careful though, I wont use app engine for mission critical projects.
Causal social networking projects are a better suite.

@gameaddict great answers to the questions about VC. I think this is a small example of how Q/A is served very well connection to the twitter platform.

@gameaddict I like it. I also like the business (outside of the competition). If you don't win the competition (hopefully you do) are you still going to push the idea? I think @Gidi_Traffic has stumbled onto something big with their traffic/issues Q and A twitter feed but right now its manual and difficult to follow and search. If you can plug this into twitter and somehow be able to sort, search and contribute the Q and A feeds it can be a multi-million naira idea.

I have used it but the java edition. Dont know much about the php side.
Can you hit the dev admin page: http://localhost:8080/_ah/admin

yea but in your code you are looking for the -1

while ((nRead = bis.read(data, 0, data.length)) != -1)

That wont happen since your socket remains open. You have to stop when you have the bytes expected
OR put a special character to stop reading.

Since your client is sending less than 8192, I would go for the special character to signify end of data.

Good Luck!

Ok, the reason why your read is blocking is because I suspect the socket is still open.

Keep in mind that you cannot always just read from the Socket's InputStream until it returns -1, as you can when reading a file. The reason is that -1 is only returned when the server closes the connection. But a server may not always close the connection. Perhaps you want to send multiple requests over the same connection. In that case it would be pretty stupid to close the connection.

Instead you must know how many bytes to read from the Socket's InputStream. This can be done by either the server telling how many bytes it is sending, or by looking for a special end-of-data character.

You are trying to read greater than whats in the buffered input stream.

Why dont you try a bytearrayoutputstream. See below

// output bucket to read data
ByteArrayOutputStream os = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
// read the response data
InputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(conn.getInputStream());

int read = 0; byte[] data = new byte[1024];
while((read = in.read(data)) > 0) {
os.write(data, 0, read);
}

// Your data is now in the ByteArrayOutputStream for reading

A crude login Process

1. First you need a login form to get the username and password

<form action="/login" method="POST">
Username: <input type="text" name="username" />
Password: <input type="password" name="password />
<input type="submit" value="Submit">

2. Then you need a servlet running on your server to get the information and process it.

  
class LoginServlet extends HttpServlet {

  public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) {
        // Get the username and password
       String username = request.getParameter("username";
       String password = request.getParameter("password";
   
       try {
          // Get the users information from the database
          String user =  getUserFromDB(username, password);
          // create a session for your newly logged in user
         HttpSession session = request.getSession();
         session.setAttribute("user", user);
         // send user to logged-in page 
         response.sendRedirect("/main";

      } catch(Exception e) {
         // user failed login
         request.setAtrribute("error", "Invalid username or password";
         RequestDispatcher rd = getServletContext().getRequestDispatcher("/login.jsp";
         rd.forward(request, response);
      } 
      
   }

   private String getUserFromDB(String username, String password) throws Exception {
      // This will load the MySQL driver
      Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver";
      // Setup the connection with the DB
      Connection connect = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost/database?user=user&password=pw";
      // Statements allow to issue SQL queries to the database
      Statement statement = connect.createStatement();
      ResultSet resultSet = statement.executeQuery("select name from User where username='"+username+"' and password = '"+password+"');
     
     // ResultSet is initially before the first data set
     resultSet.next();

     String user = resultSet.getString("name";
     
      // You need to close the database connections
      if (resultSet != null) {
        resultSet.close();
      }

      if (statement != null) {
        statement.close();
      }

      if (connect != null) {
        connect.close();
      }
     return name;
  }

}

nollyj: Thanks for your interest. you can search for toscanytech to see the list of all the apps I published. Then you can select it from the list.

Please let me know how it goes for you.

Ok I got it. I downloaded the app.

I can't find the app yet on google play store. The link does not work for me yet. I guess it hasnt fully propagated through all the servers.
I will try again later.

Interesting observation on the download count. Are you doing any marketing to get the downloads?

Great stuff, where can we get the app to test?