₦airaland Forum

niel63:
Golang be like C mixed Js.

If you sabi Js, golang no go hard.

Check am well.


The only language I think I'd prefer learning now is rust... but what's the need. Na 9ja I dey.

Golang is too sweet ! I have played with rust too, my problem with rust is its fast changing API and it doesn't come with certain things in the box, you'll have to experiment and make too many difficult decisions before you could even build anything tangible with it unlike golang that is plug and play

tbibuzz:
Pls in need of a Laravel dev need him to help me rectify something on my site chat me up
07085377908

You just reminded me of the nairaland clone I built with laravel some months ago, it had a referral system too, Send me a message on whatsapp

truthCoder:
What i meant was that a lot of nairalanders who just learnt HTML have tried to replicate Nairaland in the past. Many of their site ashes are still littered in different posts here and there.

My feedback on your project was on the colors. I liked the black background and not the neon green fonts.

Looking forward to the new project.

Sure, I will share it here when I'm done. Thanks for the feedback

truthCoder:
I remember the project.

It was a clone with black background and green colored fonts.

There have been hundreds of new Nairalands springing up every time someone completes his HTML and CSS trainings. Many have even bought domain names and launched but they all fail.

The failure reasons are many but i have identified some few:

First, you need promotions to push the new site to the potential users. This cost money and many dont have. “Organic growth “ is a long gone possibility for new projects except something viral happens to it. You have to pay to play. Ask PayDay and Kuda wassap.

Second, the founder should not be greedy. Look at seun, despite the traffic, advertising is minimal. This makes using nairaland enjoyable. If the founder cannot survive without ads, he can’t overthrow nairaland.

Third is the unique offering deficit. If you are not bringing something new to the table, why would new users sign in. Mastodon, BlueSky vs Twitter. Signal vs WhatsApp. If you don’t come with gifts, users will leave.

There are many others but..

Yeah, it was a temporal design, the main features were actually distinct. Seun blocked me on nairaland when I posted the link under his tweet, he later unblocked me though. Aside that, the new horizontal line added in between the featured links on nairaland frontpage currently was inspired by the new nairaland clone I built. Nairaland even copied android emoji's from my project guy.

I don't think someone who just completed html and css training, can build both the frontend and backend alone like I did, you seem to be forgetting nairaland has a backend ?

I have built a theme of the same nairaland clone and a featured links mod for the simple machine forum software and sold in the past years, I later built the last one from scratch just to have total control over the underlying API.

I'm currently building something else, maybe I'll get to share it here when I'm done hahaha

airsaylongcome:
Why did you shut it down? Also was it Nairaland clone (copying the “outdated” NL look) or was it a more modern forum software like Discourse aor Reddit?

@OP,
I’m also intrigued why there aren’t many more successful Nigerian forums. NL and LIB were the vanguard respectively for forum and blog. And while many other successful blogs have sprung up after LIB, the same cannot be said for forums

It had a dark theme and had more features than nairaland. I had to shut it down due to time management issue

Let's assume you are an experienced developer or designer who just signed up on a new freelancing site, which would you prefer ?

Option 1: start from the bottom to the top without spending a dime, note this might take time and you might get paid less as you start

Option 2: buy reviews and get to the top quickly, no time wasted, but there is no certainty that you will quickly get enough clients to cover up for the money you spent on reviews

I built one from scratch as a side project earlier this year but later shut it down though I added additional features like paid member subscriptions, badges and marketplace for selling digital products e.t.c

I don't think I'll ever have time to touch the source code again sef

Fake it until you make it really worked for the founder of this payday app, I remember some years back, Favor Ori had one scandal with not paying interns and instructors he set up for some projects, man apologized and left twitter, came back and rebranded. I'm happy for him sha, hope he doesn't mess up again this time

Obere4u:
Thank you... I just registered with codecayon. Please where do you get good designs from?

Search on Figma community, there are lots of free designs shared by people which you can get inspiration from

Obere4u:
Thanks. Another question please

Can I pickup any design I see online, design it and sell on codecayon?

Yes, You can.

Obere4u:
Boss, have been thinking a lot about it but where and how can a beginner in front-end web development see something to build and sell? Please teach me

You can build themes for popular cms like wordpress and shopify and sell them online on sites like codecayon or via your own site

Don't waste your time building todo apps, build something you can sell or make money from even before you get a job. Most of the times, people make the mistake of building portfolio's solely for job hunting. A portfolio should be like your day to day personal ID card, who knows ? That tiny app you built could get acquired by one big company, never stop building !

Flamemignon1:
And I'm telling you buddy,we can never know because we don't live there

Haba nau, there would have been at least few twitter threads about it by certain individuals even if registered news outlets didn't report the incidents. I'm still of the opinion that they are either chasing clout or seeking to cut corners for migration through asylum.

Flamemignon1:
At the bolded,you don't live in Uganda so you can never know,you can make your own research about news like that

Fam, the world is a global village, if there was, we would have heard.

Uglyman029:
If a country like Russia or China ban gay, would America still sanction them?

Lol! America always has a way to make sure you pay for your actions no matter who you are, both Russia and China have collected their own fair share of treatment. Uganda has too many problems to make LGBT law their top priority, either they are just chasing clout or scheming up for mass migration using the LGBT asylum card.

Uglyman029:
USA says it may impose sanctions on Uganda, after the Parliament passed a law that makes being a gay person punishable with up to 10 years in prison.

Relatives, friends and community members are obliged to report gay people.

Gay sex is punishable with up to life in prison.

....
Help us balance this. There are States in the same USA with anti gay law, but USA impose sanction on countries she consider less powerful. Powerful Eastern countries like Saudi Arabia have the same anti gay law, but USA doesn't impose sanction and will never impose her laws on them, rather USA respect them. Look at what happen during the world cup in Qatar.

Untill we start having sense as Africans, we will always be controlled like this.

Your argument is very easy to switch around. You are neglecting the fact that Saudi Arabia is a "muslim country" unlike Uganda that is a "mixed religious country" with different tribes, you can easily say Saudi Arabia are following their Holy book but not in the case of Uganda where few individuals sit down to make choices for the masses. Before that law is put in place, there has to have been some sets of persons practicing homosexuality in Uganda so, it could easily be quoted by the U.S as an attempt to suppress the voices of certain individuals.

Personally, I'm even beginning to suspect that it's a trick by Uganda to make it easier for Ugandans to be granted asylum in the U.S, let's be honest, how many times have you heard on the news that a homosexual has been beaten or killed in Uganda ? If they hated homosexuality that much, we would have seen it in mob action. Don't mind those people, they know what they are doing

seborrhic:
Need I say more!
You just summarised yourself well for everyone.

Cry me like a river, you know exactly what I meant

Adblg0610:
If you are convinced that the election was free and fair, why are you agitating for the cancellation of an election universally acknowledged to have been won fair and square.
The reason is not far fetched. They now want a rerun because of their devilish merger machination.

Lol! Cowards. At the mention of free and fair election, y'all start shivering

helinues:
30 secs ads during Usa presidential debate on CNN is nothing less than $15k, politics is not for National theatre horse

What is this one saying ? Na you know where you dey go oh, you are talking off point

AJSfan:
He should accept rerun so that LP and PDP will form alliance abi? He's smarter. No winner will accept rerun

Hehehe ! That's cowardice not smartness

Drealman20:
Don't be dense... A rerun can't happen.. The only thing dt cud happen was a run off btw the first two candidate in the case of 25% for 24 states..

Obi was out of the race sef..

Read my previous replies above. I already addressed this issue

seborrhic:
If you go about opening threads that make no sense,even to a well educated nursery school child,how else can one show you on the internet the nonsense you typed?
Do I flog or do I shout on you online?
This is the only way people like you can learn,if indeed you have the capacity to learn.

shuh! go away bingo, only an animal wouldn't make sense out of this post

helinues:
A party with no structure across Nigeria still dey claim dem no dey give shishi. What a warped thinking

which party ? give who what ? why ? what for ?

helinues:
You said he won, why should he waste money again on rerun?

You think LP and Pdp would still have money to spend for rerun? Even going to court I doubt if any of the main opposition could afford it. Do you know how many lawyers you will need, eag lawyer with their team

yen yen yen ! rerun elections if you are sure of winning in a free and fair election and you are spewing thrash. Elections are conducted using tax payers money, the money that belongs to Nigerians, Tinubu won't be contributing a dime for it

seborrhic:
Oponu!How old are you self?
So an umpire declares that you won an election,but you now reject the result and say no,since these other people are claiming I didn't win,umpire come and conduct another election for me to prove them wrong.
All these little kids with little sense to go with it creating threads for the fun of it.
The only reason I posted in this thread is for you to know how I feel about your brain capacity.It's pretty low.

As old as you claim to be just look at how you talk, you can't even express yourself without showing off your gutter behaviour, yucks !

Helgreenluv:
Stop taking that substance that you are taking. Just hear the nonsense question you are coming here to ask. If it was Peter Obi or Atiku that were in the same, they would have done same. Tinubu is your President elect whether you like it or not. If e okay you too much. Go and hang yourself and end your miserable life because I can see that you don't have sense and it will take the grace of God for you to ever have sense in your life

but why are you crying ?

Mfetenang:
Many of you will commit suicide because of president Tinubu. Get ready for 8 years of Tinubu's government.

Many of who ? LMAO ! maybe that's what you are planning to do

Drealman20:
Rerun btw how many candidates?.. Don't mention obi bcox he is out of the race..

a complete rerun for all candidates that's the only thing that will make sense

Parachoko:
dumb small boys like you don full Nairaland

Person won with the majority votes and also have 25% and more in 30 state, but you're here saying nonsense

Old papa wey dey sell sense, chief executive ancestor, well done oh! We are talking about rigging and you are still mentioning won in your statements, a fair rerun without technical failures from INEC will only prove the clear winner, INEC itself already admitted they had technical issues, it wasn't something that was hidden, we all saw it.

shariff84:
Tinubu is not the one that run to court for that injunction it's his boys that's what we call structure.Most of his boys are already with him in his Abuja house. God forbid Tinubu to be afraid of rerun may be you forgot kano inconclusive. Only him stand for Ganduje and Ganduje won. Conducting election in Nigeria is not as easy as you thought.300 billions was budgeted for inec for this two elections.

how is the budget for election tinubu's problem ? Is he the one paying for the election done by INEC ? Even if it costs 1 trillion, it shouldn't bother him, after all, it's the people's money that will be used.

If tinubu won the elections and was chosen by the people as he claimed, why is he and his supporters afraid of a rerun ? Both PDP and Labour Party aren't even afraid, why then is the jagaban himself afraid that he had to run to court to stop them from stopping the collation ?

This is something I drafted for whoever emerges the winner of the 2023 elections not just Tinubu, you can drop yours too


Here is mine

1. Play an inclusive government
Don't divide the country by being nicer to some ethnic groups or religion and play deaf ears to others, I still believe Unknown gunmen, the yoruba movement, herdsmen and banditary wouldn't have been a thing today, if the present administration explored more options in the very beginning. Take for example, the Niger delta avengers issue, it died out in no time because it was looked into very fast and with all risk calculated, quick dialogue is more efficient than threats.

2. Focus on getting 100% cashless policy
One thing we can all admit the naira redesign have affected positively is the reduction in the rate of kidnapping and robbery. Yes, cash shortage made us suffer but to be honest, it revealed that if we had better electronic systems all over the place and ditched cash completely, nobody will go about knocking anyone's door at night to rob them, it's even more effective than policing these days. Every stolen money will be easily tracked, it might seems hard but it's very much possible after all, anyone can easily create a PSB mobile money wallet tied to their sim card now, getting rural areas shouldn't be too hard, if an entire community doesn't have a torchlight phone to manage their wallets, donate some to them and give them a small solar setup for recharging, a private company can do this and charge a transaction fee.

3. Engage the youths
Please, when I say engage the youths, I don't mean buying 20 to 30 boys around to protest and make statements on your behalf, rather call for youth town hall meetings occassionally and listen to whatever they have to say, you can send a representative and work with their feedback

4. Don't try to be Mr. I know it all
Seek advice before coming up with any new policies, give roles for experts to analyze the loopholes, this is the largest country in Africa, it shouldn't be run on one man's thoughts or ego.

5. Attract, don't chase
Focus on making Nigeria a better place to do business/work to attract more foreign investments rather than milking the little we already have through multiple taxation. Does Nigeria even have anything like freelancer Visa or benefits ? I doubt ! This is something we should look into, freelancers/remote workers should have access to government loans like in other countries too not just salary earners


This is all I have for now