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Shawl001:


See the way I was scrolling down to quickly see, what number Nigeria is. It's pathetic.
Nigeria needs help.
Truly, with all that we have and our diversity...nations should be thrilled to visit us, or come to stay with us.

But, the reverse is the case.
We need to make the right choice this election. Pls, I beg everyone.

Canada, China, Mexico is not there

BloomingDale:
I’m sure Nigeria will be last with all the shameless drug carrying and yahoo yahoo immoral beings.

The thread said Afghanistan

Remitush:
I started out this year with one goal in mind: to work smart.

With the new wave of AI storming the internet, I thought to quickly grab the opportunity gap that has opened

First thing I did was to create a complete system that will solve one major problem that every new SaaS company face. I'm sure you already know the major problem of every startup. My trigger came from one of my mentors releasing over 500+ worldwide remote-friendly companies, I got access to the list not because I wanted to work for the companies as an employee, but I wanted to know other players especially new ones in their industry. Guess what I did, I found a way to connect with these new founders and sold my complete system to them and signed a contract for a quarterly retainer fee. Closed the first deal on 4th and the second one this morning that's why I'm super excited to talk about it. My target is 10 companies for this month. And if everything goes well by God's grace, all the hard work will be done this first quarter and the rest f the year will be me focusing on my personal development. One thing I can say is, I never regretted transitioning into tech and gaining access to that list of over 500+ remote-friendly companies. At least, I don't have to keep explaining myself I'm a Nigerian.

The second amazing thing I did with the AI was to write a relationship book. I noticed a lot of people like to jump on topics about relationship especially women. So I had the AI create a hook for me to test if people would be interested in the topic. It took just few hours to validate this idea using Facebook groups. You needed to see the way a lot of women pounced on the topic. So I used the AI develop the hook to serve as bait to get their email addresses. I shared my relationship story, beliefs and opinions about popular celebrities whose relationship are a mess in public. You need to see the way my emails are blowing up. I identified a common problem with the people on my email list and researched about products that will truly help them (digital products) so they can consume and we all talk about. Guess how much I have made so far on just pre-order o from batch 1? I intend to launch it Friday and I'm sure more people will join cos people naturally like rush hour.

The third amazing thing I've done so far with this AI is writing my code in another language. While this is still an ongoing project that is way faster than it was going... I already can't wait to see what it can do

PS: some of you already know what the AI is all about, it's CHATGPT.

so your turn I'm curious, what have you been able to do this year?

Great work..I have once built something with their text-davinci keyword search model

Built a Resume Scanner that you can use to scan for Resumes and tell the system to map out the ones that matches a particular skillsets.

Sule zoo

QuoteJustOnce:
@donproject2

I'll highlight your concerns in "strong" text and my answers in black

Moving on. Before I start learning new tools, I always love to be convinced that such tool is worth my time and may be my money.
Without arguments, Nextjs is one of the best frontend frameworks, no cap! A few comparison videos on YTube will clear your doubts. These days they even work together with the React to ensure any new React features are incorporated. One good example would be internationalized routing by default i.e. setting up different locales for your project. So a user in France sees your app in French and a user in Nigeria sees it in English, or one in Spain sees it in Spanish. Of course you have to provide the content or use something like i18n but then Next will automatically detect the locale and serve the appropriate page; without waiting for the page to load and have the user select the appropriate language. If you think about it deeply, that's more like server-side logic for static pages; 2 different paradigms that shouldnt naturally coexist and Next makes it happen.

I remember what you said about all-in-one package (fe + api) , I never knew Nextjs has that capability. This literally means I can eliminate Express for building APIs with NExtjs(I believe I am not wrong).
Yes, you aint wrong. In fact, you could build out your API's only without frontend and then that would be a direct replacement for an Express API app. Which means you could do FE only, BE only or both if you wish to.

I could separate routing and the actual API functions (controllers) and matrch them together later, for cleaner code, I know with Next, folder structure (inside the api folder created by Next) and the name of the file serves as the API endpoint when needed to be called from the Frontend. This is cleared out
Yes, Then there is the more advanced one called the Edge API routing. They dont' use the native Nodejs runtime but the Edge runtime i.e. they are built with standard web apis. And you can do one powerful thing with this.... Streaming!

I could create Middlewares that must return TRUE in order to allow next function called close to it to be called, i.e I can use a kind of authentication on selected routes, these routes are only accessible if the middleware called before them returns TRUE. Can you tell me I can do this with Nextjs as well.
Oh yes, Nextjs has middlewares as you would do in Express and more. Authentication? check. Bot protection? check. A/B testing? check. Localization? check. If you don't like the automatic locale detection mentioned above, then you could use middlewares to serve the correct content for a locale.

This is very very helpful...thanks man

QuoteJustOnce:
Yes something like Nextjs would have given you an all-in-one package (fe + api). So i wonder why you had to make a standalone api (server). Unless of course you plan on making the api available publicly or would want to sell it later as a paid integration. else, it's an overkill. You also have to think of portability and scalability. if you are deploying several tools on servers minus your application, then how fast can you move these to a new server, if the client would want to switch servers? then the financial aspect, why should you incur extra cost just to host some kind of tool that your app needs. There are special cases for these, so you have to decide is it worth it? If it isn't, then an all-in-one solution would be the better and faster option. Once again reduce your need for overbloated node_modules, unless absolutely required without another way out, client project or not. The world is moving towards leaner bundles (that's why we now have stuffs like Astro) and if you can help it, do it. it pays in the long run.

I had to come back to this because you said a lot of things that will help and may be raise further question whenever I want to see what is up Nextjs. I think I am done with the laundry ERP project, testing phase I guess I am. You may want to see what I have done lol.

Moving on. Before I start learning new tools, I always love to be convinced that such tool is worth my time and may be my money. I picked few introductory tutorials recently on Nextjs and what I saw actually wowed me, I remember what you said about all-in-one package (fe + api) , I never knew Nextjs has that capability. This literally means I can eliminate Express for building APIs with NExtjs(I believe I am not wrong). I have not started learning it per se, I watched few videos, browsed through internet to read generally about Nextjs, its pros and cons, where it better performs above React. I need few clarification which I believe it is best to bring it here.

Not to beat around the bush so much, let me tell you what I can do with Express or what I did with it during my last project.
1. I could separate routing and the actual API functions (controllers) and matrch them together later, for cleaner code, I know with Next, folder structure (inside the api folder created by Next) and the name of the file serves as the API endpoint when needed to be called from the Frontend. This is cleared out
2. I could create Middlewares that must return TRUE in order to allow next function called close to it to be called, i.e I can use a kind of authentication on selected routes, these routes are only accessible if the middleware called before them returns TRUE. Can you tell me I can do this with Nextjs as well. (If this is possible, I am jumping right into it)

truthCoder2:
Implement a firebase admin-sdk that creates a user on firebase then on success, creates same user on your database. Update your user data with the uid returned from firebase before final transaction commit. When you want to send a message, you fetch uid from your message and pass props to the relevant firebase function.

You still have the chance to handle your authentication or allow firebase handle same from the frontend

Thank you bro...

Even on Nairaland here, analysis I ran on threads that make it to front pages shows that Tinubu is the most common keyword on NL in the last 7 days

Peppysco:
Una get problem sha, I swear. The OP was talking about his experience and observations and you had to bring your nonsense Igbo victim mentality into the thread. At what point did the OP make reference to the Igbo tribe? If your governors aren't doing well, why don't you call them to order rather than hating on the one appreciating the efforts of his.
If I get you clearly, anyone who dare appreciate the good deeds his/her state is hating on the Igbos abi, you nor get sense, I swear. FYI, with the way you all carry out your campaigns for Obi, you all do more arm than good to his impossible aspirations. The more you all role out your biles and venom, the more people see why you can't be trusted with power, make una continue.

The thing is, Igbos have no respect for elders, this translate to what is happening in the region now. No politicians, no leaders can reason with them and make them see where they are getting things wrong. They prefer listening to some diaspora idiots who only want violence in the region while they, with their families, are far away somewhere safer.

Average Igbo doesn't reason with his mental faculty, he prefers somebody else to reason for him.

Kapeter:
Really working. They are even the ones that patrol my estate here in Ibadan the most. You'd barely see the police. Still find it hard to believe that some bastards were against Amotekuns creation back then.

One hausa politician said Yorubas are primitive back then...I could not help but laughed in Kiswahili

Kapeter:
I shuttle between Ibadan, Abeokuta and Lagos often. I'm mostly on that expressway but for a while now I've been stuck in Ibadan cuz of the numerous evil news about the Fulani herdsman menace on that highway.

Just before this December I read on the news some AIG visited this very same highway and together with Seyi Makinde the governor of Oyo state, I remember they promised that the road will become safer and there should be no panicking or fear and that people should go about their journey as it would become just as before where everyone can travel safely using the expressway.

Hehe. Yesterday was my favourite cousin introduction at Abeokuta and I had no choice than to be there.

I took a public bus (not that I have a car though but I can always get one when the need arise) off to Abeokuta and on my way what I saw makes me wanna go to every SW government house and say a very big thank you to all our governors.

There are bunch of Amotekun stations, Police, Army. Almost at every where till the end of Oyo state axis and then when you get to the Ogun state axis, you will see the OP Mesa patrolling the whole expressway.

The Ibadan axis has actually been the hotspot for the criminals actually but almost everywhere on the road you will see Amotekuns station even 12 am I was still on the road yesterday travelling safely with peace of mind seeing the huge security on that expressway.

This is Akeredolus biggest achievement so far in governance as the chairman of the SWGF. I couldn't help but be once again glad and proud to be South Westerner yesterday when I saw Amotekuns stations all over the place.

What I found amazing the most yesterday was if your car/vehicle get broken, you'd be surprised at the speed the OP Mesas and Amotekuns would get to you to stay with you while you fix it. Damn. They will stay right there with you protecting you untill your car can move again. Na. This is all that I ever pray for.

I'm so proud of SW governors for Amotekun. God bless them so much. Tonim God bless you and yours too. Thanks for all the love you have for Yorubaland.

Yorubaland will sure take its place God willing.

Confirmed! I have once made a thread about this as well, Lagos-Ibadan highway is much safer now. I constantly commute between the two cities and I can categorically confirm your claim here...

greenermodels:
I don't believe these posts, maybe the government troll farms just fabricated it to scare Nigerian teachers from leaving.

Get visa and go there and see how they do things since you want to be a doubting Thomas.

GREATIGBOMAN:
Why not discuss the cost with your client?

Since it's not a personal project financing something like this shouldn't be your problem.

You should tell the client the cost of getting a good sms API

if they can't handle the cost then they use the email alternative.


If you use a cheap service you may end up losing this client when the project goes live and the setback from your cheap sms api solution starts surfacing

The thing is, the app is a laundry management system whereby customers that leave their garments unclaimed for a certain period will be sent messages reminding them of their unclaimed orders and many other instances where messages need to be sent. Email service wouldn't suffice in this case and cost of per sms shouldn't be much, if not, any client will insist I look for a cheaper one.

Twilio's $0.15/sms for Nigeria client is equivalent to around N100/sms with $1/N750 exchange rate, this is a huge some to present to any client to start with.

La no kontinue lah swear for you

La click la chop beating

Jennyclay:
Men & crime are like 5 & 6.

Sentence these animals to life Imprisonment.. Biko.

Sentencing to life imprisonment? If law permits it, I am of the opinion that they should be executed immediately without further delay.

QuoteJustOnce:
if you can find a way to integrate firebase (and like using firebase and don't mind getting locked to firebase) into your app, then you can use

spark plan:
$0/verification up to 10k times a month.

pay as you go:
a) standalone sms auth at $0.06/verification
b) complete identity package at $0/verification until you hit 50k active users/month

both options being cheaper than twilio and aws

Okay thanks.

GREATIGBOMAN:
Is there no Nigerian version?

There are, but as someone has mentioned earlier, they are far from being reliable

QuoteJustOnce:
Hi there, to be quite frank, SMS is the last resort to communicating with your customers (unless you've got big money) cos it's freaking expensive when you want reliability. Fun fact, even with big money, you still have to approach the key players for discounted pricing else your big money turns to small money soon.
Major names i've worked with are Twilio and AWS Pinpoint for their insane reliability; but once again expensive not because they are expensive (no pun intended) but because of our weak currency. There are many others like the homegrown "smartsmssolutions" but not quite reliable in my opinion.

Oh...thanks for the input

GREATIGBOMAN:
Why not use email instead as a replacement for the sms thingy since you're looking for a way to cut costs? >

I have that in place already. My choice of SMS option is because of the type app I am building...my client will prefer Verification Codes being sent to mobile numbers instead of emails.

GREATIGBOMAN:
Twilio

That's SendGrid I guess, their service charge is around $0.1 per SMS for Nigeria...

QuoteJustOnce:
Good catch i like how you think outside the box, but PHP damn!. Well using Nextjs as a case study, uhmm, it doesn't work the way php works. In summary, as you may already know, it allows you write api functions and then bundles them outside your frontend app. So it's more like you still doing dedicated fe + api except that it abstracts the api side for you and also allows you to manage both inside one codebase. And yes, you can still consume the api endpoints later in the future because it does provide endpoints like your regular nodejs and you can do your regular GET, POST, PATCH etc. Heck you can even rate-limit or secure with an API key should you choose to sell the api on a per-user or per-bandwidth basis. You options are unlimited. The most important takeaway being you can manage all these codes in one place (good for future/legacy development) and then you don't have to worry too much about servers and the hassles that come with it e.g. security and best practices. Astro is very nice especially with their architecture called "Islands". you should definitely look into it. It removes a lot of bottlenecks that would occasionally spring up using traditional react or even Nextjs.

Steps ahead of you? I'm flattered but not really. Just that i've worked with too many teams and seen too many use-cases where "unanticipated" issues often neglected would then pop up and throw a wrench. I use prontonmail as my handle.

Good morning, do you please have any cheap SMS API service you can recommended. The ones I am seeing are quite expensive. Thanks in advance.

Jennyclay:
If your story is true then Mind your business, biko.

If you are a broke lady don't agree any relationship with any man, don't scam people.

Ogoro ati burukutu

VeryWickedGoat:
Ewa goin
All other Afonja foods are poisonous.

Omo ale

PrinceOfLagos:
Okupe committed this crime when he was still in PDP And Atiku was vice president under the umbrella of PDP

Atiku should step down immediately because PDP is a party of thieves

Atiku is the VP under Jonathan?

OGIBRA:
It was build mainly, for the purpose of the world cup, with 947 FULL SHEET OF CONTAINERS (yes containers), that why it is called 947 STADIUM n that why his also easy to dismantle...

947 is Qatari international dialing code

God1000:
But why should a guy be the one doing all that?

All OP said there are bitter truths

Kog45:
Pls which violence pass unknown gun men killing their citizens

You shouldn't have replied him, who gives a response to a madman.