Can you imagine, I saw a post on radar.techcabal.com claiming that Nigerian/African programmers haven't reached a stage where they can create technologies that can change the world, because they need to fight poverty first to create an enabling environment for our children to create the technology.

" I think that the current generation of developers will not save Africa. The ecosystem is too nascent to support much beyond transactional initiatives that allow them live from day to day. Remember Maslow's hierarchy? Hard to innovate when there's food and shelter and school fees to be paid."

“We have those who call themselves developers but can’t build anything from [the] ground-up [on their own]. They are just masters at combining a couple of hand-picked modules to get a product,”

http://radar.techcabal.com/t/where-are-africa-s-developers/166/6

That said, and as true as it is, it only means that our hope rests on our children and that we can only focus on fighting poverty. Wow!

Well, we can be creative and we can build from scratch, and I think most Africans have built from scratch. Now, I need anyone who has built something from scratch to prove those guys wrong and post whatever they built and are proud of, even if the marketing has been poor and discouraging. I will start by posting mine.

RoadPad is a simple webapp that you can log on to, type a take-off city (e.g Abuja) and then a destination city (e.g Lagos) and it will show you every transport operator (those already added to the system) so that you can do any of the following:
1) Just get information from the page about their operation
2) Query them about anything
3) Write or read a review
4) Book directly from their.
You can see a sample here http://roadpad.com/route/6 or just search your own here http://roadpad.com/
So, Africa and Nigeria can build from scratch...

I also have other projects but posting more than one could constitute spamming, so let's just stick to one.
Looking forward to your

Forward to frontpage for the techies here please

Cc:lalasticlala
Farano

Nice one...

just passing

I want to build an app that will make you a billionaire after download. That way poverty ends.

no comment i dont understand.

Ok

Are you using this thread as an advertisement platform?

impressive work

hmmm you dont understand what techcabal meant by building from scratch, for example, if the site uses a navigation system, did they build it? it must have been integrated from another system

The truth is building from scratch is like reinventing the wheel, sometimes it could be time wasting and our ecomony doesnt give you room for that. imagine building a site like facebook for 1 year and after building it, you still come and beg people to register.

this app no fit carry me go my village nau.
Abi e d work without network?
Make una wait make we belleful first as Oyibo talk am

quite interesting.

ok, ayaff hear

Impressive

Africa, the next BIG continent

Good one. Am rily hapi caz am d 3rd to coment

One 9ja

So many ppl av d talent nd know-how... but no grants from the govt.

This business ideas app,currently No. 3 in business ideas apps on Google play store, was made from the scratch in Nigeria by Nigerians.
Sadly,there's more download of it by Indians, South Africans and Americans (US).
@Op,someone needs your approval to make you inferior. We're all work in progress. No perfect race or culture yet

.

In as much as you are creative and innovative, you shouldn't channel your innovative energy trying to prove someone wrong. You can never be successful that way. Let your inventions focus on adding value to society. That way, everybody wins.

X

Africa is yet to embrace technology, that's why its hard for not just programmers but also engineers over here to 'build from scratch' or otherwise, to patent their invention.
check online and u'd see that there a dozens of such programmes already written, and u'll see that they all use a unique and similar source code.

.

buzquet:
Good one. Am rily hapi caz am d 3rd to coment

you say wetin?
Talk am again

We cab.

Nigeria fighting poverty first. The poverty created by ibb, obasanjo, Jonathan, abacha, buhari, gowon, shagari, etc.

I've not read the article but if "RoadPad" is your defence, then the article is right. RoadPad is nothing new and if will drill down, Roadpad is basically a CRUD app.



Like someone advised earlier, you don't need to spend your time proving people wrong.

We can







Modified: they can

juman:
Nigeria fighting poverty first. The poverty created by ibb, obasanjo, Jonathan, abacha, buhari, gowon, shagari, etc.

The poverty created by blaiming other people for ones poverty...