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It's for fun so no thank you. it's not what I do professionally for work

Kaczynski:
Python is a sloppy lang, if you are serious wit game dev, learn c++ and pick a graphics lib like vulkan or opengl..

Thanks for shedding light on this. Interesting take

as69:
They exist but mostly targeting global clients rather than the local market. The economics are tough — Nigerian mobile users have high engagement but low spend rates, so ad-supported casual games are basically the only sustainable model locally.

Most Nigerian game devs I've seen use Unity for mobile games on international app stores, or take freelance contracts from studios abroad. Very few can sustain it purely off Nigerians paying for games.

The itch.io community has some Nigerian indie devs if you search around. Small but active. The space is growing slowly sha.

Nice, for both iOS and Android right?

EnabsPraise:
Right now working on a smart expense management application that enables users to track income and expenses, create and manage budgets, analyze spending patterns, and receive predictive insights to make better financial decisions with flutter(dart) and firebase

I've rarely come across anyone professionally doing game development for a living in Nigeria except hobbyist or for fun. Like I use pygame in python sometimes to create fun stuffs for family or friends.

Do people actually use unity 3d and unreal engine and make a living in Nigeria? Maybe Lagos? They are even more rare than mobile devs.

Any game developers here?

What's your take?

Thanks I guess. Just thought of the idea and made it. Really nothing to it. A simple thought experiment

budaatum:
It isn't really my sort of game, so no, I have no suggestions. You keep going though please, and you might someday create the kind of game I play.

Know that I admire your effort. I can not create what you have created.

Sure thing 💯 Id take those into consideration. Will definitely add more features 👍

SpencerForbes:
Nice one, OP! The game is a good start, but you need to add small spice to keep people's interest.

People have a very short attention span these days; just tapping to shoot forward will get boring fast. Add some challenges like high-jump shots or reverse shooting mechanics to make the gameplay more dynamic. Give them something to sweat over! 🎮🔥

yeah, I mean it's my first game and just made it like yesterday. Might add some features later, got any suggestions?

budaatum:
So, basically, just keep clicking shoot?

Nice attempt.

I recently just built this RPG game using python. I got inspiration from Nigeria's government obsession with large convoys and DSS 😁. It should be played on a PC for best experience. It's called President's bodyguard. Try it out, tell me what you think.
https://dapper-elf-8ee0a9.netlify.app/

I recently just built this RPG game using python. I got inspiration from Nigeria's government obsession with large convoys and DSS 😁. Ideally it should be played on a PC for best experience. It's called President's bodyguard. Try it out, tell me what you think.
https://dapper-elf-8ee0a9.netlify.app/

There's literally so much money potential in that field. Everywhere we devs but so little mobile devs. That alone speaks volume. And it's cool to whip up an app from scratch 😁

Revealpanda:
Go and introduce anything or product to a random Nigerian... First thing they'll ask you is "Link to download the App"

If you haven't made up to 50m from the space just don't talk anything

Really? so no mobile app like this exists currently?

Dekadet:
help build an animal feed formulation app for poultry, pigs, dogs, sheep and goat, fishes etc, it should include the quantity of nutrient required for each animal of concern in the right proportion. Hit me up when you're done.

I've gotten good at mobile app development recently and I use my own apps personally on my phone, it's quite cool and surreal actually knowing I could even build a functional mobile app, like a superpower even 😄. But I've hit a roadblock, i have no inspiration whatsoever on what to build next? Maybe I should go back to unity 3d and crank up a game? Any suggestions? Collabs and email is open to all. What app do you think should exist?

Mobile apps have higher retention so that matters as well

as69:
Mostly been on the web side — easier to deploy, no app store gatekeeping. But the point about scarcity driving demand is real. Less supply, more leverage for mobile specialists.

Tried Expo/React Native recently and the DX is genuinely better now. For simple apps you can ship cross-platform without much compromise. For complex native features you still need to go full kotlin or swift sha.

Stephen0mozzy's point about PWAs is valid too — if your product doesn't need biometrics or local file access, a well-optimised web app covers most use cases without asking users to install anything.

The browsers you use e.g chrome, aren't they mobile apps? Or would you prefer WhatsApp over the web than on phone natively?

Stephen0mozzy:
Smart phone users have browsers on their phones. Unless for critical applications like banking and Identity, most people still prefer the web app variant than installing a new app - i still read reddit on web, see our dear nairaland 😁

Except for saas and certain startups yes but you have to remember does account for a fraction of the current landscape. They are more smartphone users than computer users which are predominantly web oriented.

Stephen0mozzy:
Not all software products requires mobile platform-specific features - so "mobile is the future" is an hasty conclusion - most internal business applications run locally too, either as desktop apps or on local intranet - web app.

Mobile-first and native-first is not the same; and there are many reasons why a new SaaS product will prefer to LAUNCH first on web over mobile - web apps are bastardly efficient these days too, and don't need platform gatekeeping - so most products that don't really need native features - local file system access, biometrics, precise location, etc - will still go for web.

Web apps also implement mobile-first - mobile first just means the user interface properly adapted for mobile screens.

But of course, mobile skills are quite future proof and mostly because its lot more harder to publish a mobile app than it os to deploy a web app - so people who have experience publishing apps will still have their place.

On the Developers side
There are fewer mobile devs, because the environment setup/requirements is much more higher - i.e no way you're building an ios app without Xcode and Mac and iphone. On windows (before Expo) you need to have android studio installed even to locally build react native apps

Mobile app would always offer a better user experience. Most trillion dollar companies traffic comes now from apps as opposed to back then in the early 2000s. Mobile should always be a top priority in your business plan. Think about it, it's faster and convenient to use a bank app than it is to log on to their website for the same purpose

Alphabyte3:
It is better to build both because we have billions of android and iOS devices. Most prefer mobile while some prefer web . One big problem of Nigerian developers org they hardly upgrade their software every 3-4 months because of cost .

exactly, mobile apps is how we know mostly interact, we even have to use browsers apps before we access the web even. I think that's why we can command more honestly

platymus:
I love your observation! I have been doing (web) fullstack and still doing it. In recent years I noticed that mobile is the true future so switched and started with reactnative and dart/flutter. I recently built 3 edtech products (2 with reactnative and 1 with flutter) which will be launch soon in the market by the product owners. I noticed that users are mobile first before ever trying to use their laptops. They buy, watch,read and do many things from their device.Also mobile device have been given more computing power now than ever before. Many developers will have to switch to mobile if they ever want to to make meaningful impact in their career It is an addition to their existing skill set not deduction!

That's the thing. It's very scarce even globally. But I mean that means increased demand for us.

Alphabyte3:
We have 100 web jobs over 1 Mobile jobs based on recent findings. We have dart(flutter), swift , java and koltin dev but they hardly comments they all gone silent.

It seems everywhere are web devs but very little devs for mobile app development. Isn't there any mobile app developer on here? Why is that?
My stack is swift for iOS and kotlin for android. I use both xcode and android studio for both. Still haven't gotten used to the cross dev frameworks yet although I do know a bit of flutter with dart. Recent build was an AI chatbot app. Built an external server for the backend. Share yours below.

Working on the upload but I don't think I'm including ads for now. let's see how it goes first

Alphabyte3:
Nice one when are you uploading to app store and add a custom ad network instead of Google ads because of the current strict policies on Africans like OpenAI.

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I'm still working on Google's playstore approval. I just recently applied. But I can assure you it's safe. I just had to put it on drive to share for some colleagues

MindHacker9009:
I would avoid downloading any app not on Google or apple app store for security reasons. Only if the app is open source then maybe download directly but still be careful.

here is the official android app I finally built. Check out and tell me what you think
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1g5O5MwM7aNGxAhK8GgfJRJqueJHkP-Sz/view?usp=drive_link

Alphabyte3:
I just made an android version for myself

I'm not the dev of the one on vercel. Happy to connect. I'd reach out shortly

Frantzugo:
Hi David, this is a good initiative.
Are you the dev of the ChatNaija on Vercel?

If you don't mind, let's connect. I am also building something similar, though it is focused on laws.

The android app is now available for ChatNaija, try it out.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1g5O5MwM7aNGxAhK8GgfJRJqueJHkP-Sz/view?usp=drive_link

davidaluu:
I fine tuned an AI model for the Nigerian market and trained it on some local data. It's called Chat Naija. Try it out and tell me what you think. All suggestions and feedbacks are welcomed. It's still in beta testing so might have some issues or unexpected crashes or timeouts.

I built ChatNaija a while back last year as a web app and it gained some recognition. I since then got into app development and built the Android version as requested. Share your thoughts.
Download and try it out here.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1g5O5MwM7aNGxAhK8GgfJRJqueJHkP-Sz/view?usp=drive_link

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Common law yes. Haven't really thought of edge cages. And yes, this is far better than Gen AI cause of basically no hallucinations. I'm currently working on a research where both LLM and expert system can be combined, a hybrid. Bringing in the best of both worlds basically

as69:
Rule-based expert systems are underrated for this kind of thing. LLMs hallucinate legal definitions but a proper inference engine with well-defined rules will give you consistent outputs every time.

Did you model the rules from Nigerian criminal code specifically or more general common law? Curious how you'd handle edge cases like partial defenses — like if intent exists but there was provocation, does it reduce from first-degree to manslaughter in your system?

So I built an ai expert system on a legal domain focusing on homicide basically. It's knowledge based logic not an LLM. It's just raw logic but rule based basically, the earliest and plainest form of Artificial Intelligence currently but it's as accurate as the data provided. More accurate than most general AI chatbots for specifically trained knowledge based task. Try it out here, tell me what you think
https://verdant-bonbon-781b15.netlify.app/

It would replace mundane and repetitive tasks but it still lacks human judgement, strategy and authencity. My verdict is it would change the landscape but not fully replace. Equip yourself with AI skills and become AI enabled instead.

Kelechi009:
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