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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:
Question: What do you think is the future of AI, as a digital marketer / Virtual Assistant. Is my job at risk in the long term?

I started my AI journey back in 2024 with python using if else statements. Then I later started learning about the theory of how AI actually works, like tokenization, vector embeddings, GPT transformers and the rest eventually delving into the actual frameworks like tensorflow and Scikit-Learn. Those frameworks actually tested my patience especially tensorflow but I started using Keras for it which made it easier to use. Another challenge is that most of these AI coding sessions require massive resources like GPU instances for training so I mostly use Google Colab for coding sessions due to their generous free tier. Fast forward today, I'm still learning but have gotten better than before and have two students that I did a marathon online tutorials for. So feel free to reach out or ask any questions. Drop them here or you can email me.

But it's standalone course in other countries. What's the reason it shouldn't be in Nigeria?

as69:
Honestly, yes — but not as some standalone theoretical degree. AI should be integrated into existing Computer Science and Engineering programs as a specialization track.

The problem with creating a separate "BSc Artificial Intelligence" is that AI doesn't exist in a vacuum. You need solid foundations in mathematics, statistics, programming, data structures, and software engineering before you can do anything meaningful with AI. If you skip those fundamentals and jump straight to "prompt engineering" or running pre-trained models, you end up with graduates who can use tools but can't build them or understand why they work.

What Nigerian universities should do:
- Add AI/ML modules to existing CS programs (starting from year 2 or 3)
- Focus on the math — linear algebra, probability, optimization. That's what separates someone who understands AI from someone who just calls APIs
- Include practical projects using real datasets relevant to Nigeria — agriculture, healthcare, fintech
- Partner with companies doing actual AI work so students get exposure to real problems

As for employability — the demand is there globally, but you're right that the local market is still catching up. The advantage is that AI skills are highly remote-friendly. A graduate in Lagos can work for a company in London or San Francisco without relocating.

The bigger question is whether Nigerian universities have the faculty and infrastructure to teach it properly. You can't teach deep learning on machines that can barely run Chrome.

With the rise and advancements in AI, do you think Nigerian institutions should start offering it as a standalone course like BSC Artificial Intelligence? Other countries like US and UK already have it. Do you think it would have economic relevance? Could graduates be employable? Overseas, AI/ML engineers easily make six figures annually but I can't really see that happening in Nigeria anytime soon, what do you think?

So I built Unseen, a synthetic data engine. I needed various rare dummy datasets generated on demand like even weird combos for testing out some algorithms with Scikit-Learn and playing with some other AI framework. So I built this with Python as the backend basically with an LLM under the hood. Try it out here. Tell me what you think.
https://unseen-v91o.onrender.com/

Very stupid comment. He built something, that says something more than what you're even capable of. At least he did something. Don't be this foolish next time

gistray:
Chatgpt already does this.

Why would anyone leave Chatgpt and use your inferior website

What I described isn't AI slop. It integrates to the phone OS. It's a layer not a wrapper. How can you even compare the two?

Kaczynski:
I'm pretty sure you don't know what a monad is ?? The only thing you grasp about AI is from all those tweets shilling AI slop by brogrammers .

I mean those have millions of agents and I'm not sure about their guardrails so. But it's still a new technology. It would get better eventually.

airsaylongcome:
Your are seeing the “havoc” openclaw/moltbot is doing now right?

Yes they do starting off but increases as you scale and increase your spending

Shomek:
Nice one
Does the claude api have daily limits for requests

That's what I'm working on now. Trying to get an android OS version and scrap it and inject an agentic layer on top of the OS

gistray:
How about you build one with as a demo.

Using Android custom ROM

You only trust it temporarily for a task and there's no tool that does this the way I described, only automation tools yes but not for native mobile that integrates with the OS directly

gistray:
Then you'll have to entrust all your data to the AI. If anyone gets a hold of that ai all your account will be compromised.


Besides they'll tools already like N8 doing this.... You can also build your own Macros to do some automations

That's for companies not users. Haven't you thought of something maybe AI does something for you in the background on your phone instead of you doing it?

gistray:
What time saver?
Companies needs real users to use their phone and play with their apps so they can show them Ads or sell something to them not AIs.