u/NewNollywood

AfroMax

I believed there was a right way to do things. So I studied the Y Combinator model. I learned Figma. I learned how to write proper developer briefs, how to structure sprints, and how to manage a remote technical team. I figured that if I followed the processes developed by people smarter and more accomplished than me, I would get to the finish line.

What I got instead was wahala.

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I have begun to write about building AfroMax - a cultural lifestyle platform for the Global Black Community, and just published the first article on Medium.

Read the full article on Medium.

AfroMax App

After three months of hammering away at my keyboard for twelve to sixteen hours a day, I finally rewrote the last block of code left behind by the Nigerian developers I had fired. Up until that moment, I had been vacillating between anger and laughter — anger at how inadequate the codebase was, laughter at the distance between what they had built and the magnitude of what AfroMax was meant to become.

That's the hook.

That's the hook of my first Medium article documenting my journey of building AfroMax - a cultural lifestyle platform for the Global Black Community, in public.

Read the full article on Medium.