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Getting an accurate building estimate in Nigeria is a headache, prices change constantly and the few estimates you find online are outdated. Who wants an AI agent where you describe your dream home or upload your floor plans, and it pulls current market prices for building materials and labour to generate a full bill of quantities ?
What do you guys think? don't you feel something like this should exist?

mufutau55:
Off-Topic Thread - To Discuss Anything and Everything that doesn't fit into an individual thread.
Let's discuss everything pertaining to Building Constructions, Real estate and some more.

Note: Please no products or services advertisements... there are plenty of other threads for that already. No buying and selling on this thread.

Hajji M.

Getting an accurate building estimate in Nigeria is a headache, prices change constantly and the few estimates you find online are outdated. Why not an AI solution where you describe your dream home or upload your floor plans, and it pulls current market prices for building materials and labour to generate a full bill of quantities like a quantity surveyor would?
Thoughts of this? shouldn't this exist in Nigeria's current real estate landscape?

Getting an accurate building estimate in Nigeria is a headache, prices change constantly and the few estimates you find online are outdated. Who wants an AI agent where you describe your dream home or upload your floor plans, and it pulls current market prices for building materials and labour to generate a full bill of quantities ?
Drop a comment if you want me to build this. 👇

And for the agent to work on your phone, you just grant it Accessibility access in your settings. No root access or anything. You guys should check out Autodroid research paper online. https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.15272
It's a very similar concept.

okay, thanks for advice bro, would check it out. The android agent was for a thesis I'm doing and I needed some research points.

Revealpanda:
That being said, if u abandon whatever it is you think you're doing and embark with me on a project (improvement).... Within few months we should be getting 7 figures+ monthly trust me.

A project I'm currently making 800-900k+
passively on playstore it has a real word use case not going out f demand anytime soon.


Think of it as Chatwoot or manychat but a portable version

I know android won't allow it. But a user can grant it with easily in settings. Why do you think I picked android over iOS? They don't need to grant it root access. It's just a button tap on settings by the users. Android system won't kill it, the 20 plus phones I tested it on worked. it's a foreground service and it's made RAM efficient. What you would have said is that playstore won't allow it which is that is true to some extent. But saying my agent would be killed on android OS is so shallow and makes it seems like I didn't anticipate that prior, did my homework and built a workaround. Hence, that's why I said my most impressive project till date 😁.

Paystack:
Your OS level trash will never be allowed By Android security system to do any meaningful task.... Android will never give your app permissions to automate other apps or run above them, OS level my azz.

Your best short is to Root the so called operating system your build your Basic Ai on top off which will be redundant because no one will have the time to Root their phone just to play with your Shyt Ai

You might be thinking I'm hating on U, but trust me you're wasting your time.

You're also free to believe I'm hating on you

Lol 😂. Are you even hearing yourself? An OS level agent that can control your phone for you in the background while you do other stuffs is shyt? And by Saas, you mean another gpt wrapper? The next evolution of AI is going to be agentic, AI that can actually do stuffs. That shyt I built is the most complicated thing I've ever built ever since I became a developer and I'd like to say it's also the most impressive thing. Do you know how I felt when I saw my screen moving? opening and using apps without any human supervision? The fact that what I built even shocked me should said alot. So no, this by far is better than 1000 AI saas products combined

Revealpanda:
You're fund of building shyt meaningless app.

Can't you think of something meaningful and world class to build? Something that'd actually challenge you and probably change your life.


See you trying to build useless Ai agent multi billion dollar corporation already perfected.


Look for a good SAAS product and build and stop wasting your time on shyt

Fellow Devs, what mobile apps did you recently build or currently building?

Mine was Phil, it's like a computer agent but for android. A mix of AI agent, automation and kotlin. Had to do a bit of JavaScript too for an external server. So what about you? what's your current level? how far have you gone?

I built an AI agent assistant called Phil that can operate your phone like a human and complete any task given by the user.

Cool direction honestly. Basically AI doing animation on behalf of you. Like giving it access to tools like blender or Maya 3d and letting it figure out the rest. It's called agentic AI, working on something similar

9jageek:
Yes game developers do exist. Interestingly, game development and website development are two of the major goals that attract young Nigerians to software development. I have sat across at least 50 developers in job interviews, being through at least 3 startups in the past decades. One of the major goals that attract young engineers to software development, even beyond website development, is game development.

Now we are encouraging game developers to work with the help of AI and trust me, we see interest from many Nigerians, as obvious in this twitter thread https://x.com/i/status/2044088533858627843 discussing using Claude, CORE's memory layer and Blender.

I'm currently working on an AI/ML project that uses external tools and like planning, memory, execution, pre written commands and stuffs like that. But I want to know, what is really the true definition of an AI agent? Is it just an LLM with a tool given to it as a superpower or something else? cause chatgpt has a built in search tool? does that make it an ai agent? or it's something that has a goal? I'm curious cause I wanted to know if what I'm currently building fits the correct description of an AI agent.

No, it's not a requirement. That's when you get in and is accepted

ayoncox:
Your company has to be registered in US

Out of curiosity, has anyone applied to Y combinator or similar tech startup accelerator programs? How has your experience been like? They rarely pick African tech startups, maybe it's a minority thing or something, the prominent one was paystack that did YC I think in 2016. YC are mostly focused on AI startups and Saas and AI agents and those hype especially those in Silicon Valley and San Fransisco. What's your take on this? Any tech startup accelerators in Nigeria?

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have reached out, check your mail

Drinkwater2026:
can u do this?


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Already have the Google developer account since it's just a one-off payment of $25 but apple's is $99 every single year. Still considering it though

Revealpanda:
If you want to take your development journey serious u should do all u can and open a Google console and Apple developer account

After building ChatNaija, a Nigerian AI chatbot on android, I recently completed the cycle and also built an iOS version with Swift. Launching it on the app store would require a developer account of $99 which I'm still debating or maybe I should test flight which still requires an apple developer account? This isn't like android studio where I can just generate an APK and side load it. Does anyone knows how to distribute the app without going through the app store? What do you think?

Ideally it should be with OEMs like phone manufacturers to have it pre installed. Maybe focus on an upcoming phone company and scale from there.

Seun:
Watching your progress. What are your plans to commercialize it?

Dear aspiring founders and entreprenuers , what starup idea are you currently working on or have interest in? What's your currrent tech stack? Have you shipped an MVP? got a cofounder or solo? Is it just another chatgpt wrapper😃? I personally am working on Perform OS. Its a custom built AI operating system built on top of AOSP, currently using C++ and Java to build it out.

Exactly what I was going for, the typical Nigerian convoy concept. I used pygame yes, just playing around with the module.

as69:
The convoy concept is very Nigerian lol. Good choice for the theme.

VictorIfe's Lagos background suggestion would actually work well - BRT buses in the background, Danfo cutting lanes as random obstacles. The concept is already there, just needs visuals to match the setting.

What library did you use to build it - Pygame?

Sure 😃, permission granted 🙂

VictorIfe:
permission to share on my whatsapp?

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.