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Every time I have talked to a Nigerian programmer like me on building software as a service platform for the Nigerian market, the answer I always get is a negative one.

A times, I wonder what the problem is, it's not like we don't want to build or lack the knowledge to build, the problem lies with the users/customers who would rather not pay no matter how cheap or useful the app is, I mean what's there in paying N1,000 per month to use a software, it's not that expensive, these days, even road side food you could finish in minutes could cost you more, what then is stopping Nigerians from patronizing home grown subscription based apps ?

Every time you launch a utility app with a fee, all you hear is, "the app is nice, but make it free", how can it be free when I use my money to pay for servers to store data and spend my time to maintain it ? Why are Nigerians so unreasonable, are we too poor or just too stingy ?

bloom02:
Everything is not something you can explain with just text but talks and pictorials. Good afternoon by the way

Interesting, contact me on whatsapp

Ilearning:
Earning 1 million naira in Nigeria monthly as a software developer or relocate to Canada Which one is better?

You've already made up your mind, why are you coming here to ask us ?

You have seen folks posting pictures of themselves in front of highrise buildings and restaurants abroad and you want to do the same and feel among. I don't have any advice for you.

bloom02:
I need a laravel expert that can implement (kinda complex task to a script)

The work is related to Referral and Bonus implementations but very complex.





Whatsapp me: zero915705474five

Post the full details of whatever you need with your budget here. The degree of complexity doesn't matter or don't you get tired of explaining over and over again to each person that contacts you ?

Devdevdev:
Hi guys. I am really interested in getting your opinions on this issue.

For user authentication I usually send a jwt token stored in a http-only cookie to my frontend. I handle authorization by verifying the token on every request to a protected api endpoint.

How efficient and secure is this?

What is the industry, real-world standard and how do you handle yours?

What would you recommend?

User visits /login, on the backend, you authenticate using bcrypt or whatever algorithm and generate a token which you must send back as response.

On the frontend, you read the response and store the token in httpOnly cookie named XSRF-TOKEN, axios and some other http libraries will automatically pass it for you on each request.

Why store it in httpOnly cookie and not web storage ? Because if you store it in web storage, anyone can read it, using httpOnly cookie makes it impossible for anyone else to read the token except you, the server who sets it.

codingdude:
Hey guys. Which one do you think is better or which one do you prefer?

I have tried my hand on freelancing but the pay here is too low. SaaS on the other hand seems to require money to make.

Do both

Onepiece007:
Boss, I sell MacBook you can patronize me when you’re ready .
It’s best you go with gaming laptop and just Linux as your operating system .
But the biggest factor you should consider is the GPU, cPU , AND SSD if you want to buy macbook

the issue is that xcode can't be used on any other platform.

wittywriter:
Hope you earn in foreign bucks with your book? That's most important.



Wittyness

Lol! It's for work

Sheriman:
You be big boy oooo!!! If you're waiting, you just gonna wait forever because if Apple release M3 dey gonna release M4 after that M5 after that M6 and on and on like that

I know but in this case, the M3 might come with better support for things like docker, some people are complaining of segmentation fault with the M2 currently

I need a new laptop and it has to be a macbook pro though I'm a big fan of linux I can't go for dell or lenovo this time because it won't work with Xcode. I heard the M3 will be faster and better than the M2 but how long will it take before they ship ? Should I wait ?

I don't care ! Wikipedia is a great resource for anyone who wants to learn and become an expert in any domain especially computer programming, if you go looking for politics, that's what you'll keep seeing

Update: Some email messages sent to me via nairaland got stuck in spam box, when you are contacting me for this script, I'll advise you use the whatsapp number I dropped

chukwuebuka65:
Lolz but farming is also a lucrative occupation.

It is, that's why I suggested it for you.

chukwuebuka65:
Bugs are the only reason software development takes so much time. Without bugs , it will be a walk in the park. It can take 5mins to write a code to do something .But once you encounter a bug, forget it, you can no longer guarantee how long it’s going to take and I don’t like this. It makes me wanna cry.

Bugs don't just manifest, if you encounter bugs in your code, it is as a result of your wrong doings. Stop complaining and fix up or go and learn farming

Paystack:
Well if you say so.

Who am I even to judge the guy when I'm yet to build or do anything worthwhile or remarkable

LMAO !

Paystack:
He's a lucky guy that's all.

He was lucky enough to build Nairaland forum when very few people in Nigeria knew what the internet was.


He was lucky to be a pioneer... unfortunately he's not a visionary or someone who can make something great.


For almost 20 years now Nairaland have been stagnant... same progress from say 10 years ago... no major improvements or change, anyone can scrape every inch of data on Nairaland... anyone can create millions of accounts here, anyone can build a bot to spam everywhere... Nairaland is lucky not enough companies are interested in forum style business ... if not it would have been dead and buried long ago.

Lol! Just a lucky guy ? Nah! I will say a lucky genius. There were competing forums that died in the early days of nairaland. It might shock you to know, nairaland was loved back then so much, you see this design some of us hate ? People worshipped it and sang praises for it. All the other forums only worked on PC and lacked the features nairaland had back then, nairaland was the home of innovation, it had likes, followings and followers and worked well on mobile browsers.

Even mark zuckerberg success was based on luck but we can't say he was just lucky

Paystack:
Is Nairaland not basic or not?

Most of the algorithms Nairaland uses was shipped default in this script.


Nairaland at its core is just a script even you can access and replicate.


Most of the custom algorithms where created by Seun with his mediocre PHP and Python

Lol! Have you seen smf source code before ? I don't mean the current version, go and check version 1.x.x and see the logic and sql queries, so many builtin language function were lacking in php and mysql and had to be built by smf developers, you had to be really good to understand it, talk more of rewriting it in another language, it wasn't beans. As at that year, if we were to be honest, Seun was a genius. We just have to give him the credits. He just got lazy and refused to upgrade, that's the only valid reason to roast him.

Paystack:
In today's world an intermediate dev should be able to replicate that in a portfolio project.


Anti spam bot that just check for duplicate comments or post on specific time intervals and ban.

Some basic algorithm


Very dull bot

Hahaha ! Content moderation isn't easy to implement algorithmically even with machine learning. Hope you know that facebook and twitter and most of these social networking sites using AI employ hundreds of human moderators on the side to contain spam

Paystack:
Nairaland get algorithm?




If Nairaland was a car it will be a 1920 model

You seem to underestimate nairaland a lot, nairaland has an antispam bot and also uses an algorithm to sort post on the trending page and other sections of the forum, ads on nairaland are also served and billed using an algorithm.

thetechbroh:
Does anyone has any ideas how the nairaland algorithms work especially as regards getting views for a post?

Please be kind to share. Thanks a bunch.

Though, Nairaland frontpage is moderated by admins not by an algorithm, your post doesn't really need to be on the frontpage to get seen. One of the few ways to get more views is to appear on the list of trending topics and hot topics in sections of the forum. Nairaland uses the time a post was created, the views and replies a post gets to sort this.

If you are interested in seeing how nairaland works under the hood, I built a nairaland clone script earlier this year using laravel php framework and I was giving it out, check my threads you should see it

Dataflip:
yea although i ask few developers i know for scripts for some reasons they all rejected one offered me but at a some of 300k.. its too much so i decided to build it myself..please can you drop your phone number for me i will appreciate

Send me a message on whatsapp

Dataflip:
So I am developing a vtu portal does anyone have idea on it?

I recently integrated airtime and data vending in a friend's project which was built using laravel framework. I don't get, why are you building it from scratch, for learning purpose or something ?

airsaylongcome:
Looool....I personally think finance business is very good lucrative business. You never make a loss because you always charge for your services rendered. You just need a critical mass of users so that the total.charge exceeds your infrastructure and wages cost. And with good Treasury/Money management it can be super profitable. But the temptation is there to steal people's monies in your custody. Well steal.is not the word. Misappropriate more like. But from misappropriation without being caught, it ultimately ends in stealing. I've personally toyed with the idea of a Fintech startup but I've never understand the space and my liver dey fail me sometimes.

I'm not saying finance business is not good, you are not allowed to run financial services without a licence same way you can't just wake up one morning and rent a shop in your neighbourhood and turn it into a bank.

On the issue of profit, it depends on the transaction volume not really the number of users. You can have 10,000 users and still may not make any reasonable profit at the end of the month if they don't perform enough transactions, some of these fintech companies are just running on vibes, they don't make a reasonable profit yet.

To be honest, I don't advice any young talented person to be solely responsible for anything monetary in this age filled with peer pressure to outdo one's self, you can easily get tempted to borrow from it even if you didn't have any bad intention initially.

Two things are involved:
1. You launch and wait for CBN to come for you
2. You don't launch until you get a licence

Whether CBN will come for you or not will depend on what major services you are providing and when they notice your activities.

NOTE:
1. you can't hold people's funds for saving on their behalf without a licence.
2. if you are planning to collect money on people's behalf without them directly selling any service on your platform, you'll also need a licence


ADVICE:
Money can be very tempting to keep, you might get tempted to divert people's money for personal use or investments purposes and regret it. Even banks and fintechs are audited occassionally to make sure nobody is diverting anyone's money for personal use. Stay away from anything that will involve EFCC for your own good, find something else to do

NaijaSky:
very very unfortunate that the owner does not know how to santize but is affecting the adverts placement.
if the owner sees this i have idea for you how to santize it and make money from the sanitization.
All scammers will diaappear.

I saw this post earlier and didn't want to engage you because you contacted me sometime back for nairaland featured links mod and theme for SMF but later added my number to a whatsapp bot for your site feed. If you are still having issues, you can contact me via whatsapp

Joevics:
What package are you looking to buy. If it is coding related, work with a Nigerian using an escrow and pay in Naira without their charges

We have a lot of talented coders and 3d artists here in Nigeria, trust me, whatever package you're looking for, you will find someone here in Naija that can handle it

StarFist:
For 3 days now, I cannot access my websites or it's backend.
How can I big brand like whogohost be so reckless with it's services?

Very disturbing

Hahaha ! The funny part is that, out of all the Nigerian hosts, Whogohost is the most expensive. Try namecheap or bluehost if you want peace of mind.


Another angle, try accessing the site using a VPN

Selarng:
Drop the link don't ask me to dm if you drop the link and if you have jiji laravel clone script drop link here

if you are interested in this nairaland clone forum script I built using laravel, it has ads, a user wallet already integrated with paystack, marketplace, premium membership, messaging, following and followers feed, likes and shares, vtu portal and much more features, send me an email or contact me via whatsapp

checkout the demo in one of my threads below: https://www.nairaland.com/7518043/giving-away-free-blogger-anyone

GREATIGB0MAN:
Chai. Finally I'm starting to come to realization this long term Core tech stuff isn't for me.

How can I be finding Syntax sexy

I'd love to be in the Tech ecosystem but as the one directing others (the programmers and geeks).

Just one good idea away from realizing this... I believe I've learnt enough programming to not look stupid when reviewing my employees final products or something.


I can't imagine myself sitting on the desk in front of monitor all day long typing syntax up and down and looking for next framework to jump into and start reading documentations.

Fuck_No!

Seems I'm more of JackMa, Steve Jobs kinda guy.

Lol! Every aboki to his kettle, it's still fine. Just do what you love