Cape Town, South Africa
Joined August 2016
Andrew Mori retweeted
Our Homegrown Infrastructure....Try Brimble. Deploy something. Become a paying customer. Tell them what would make you move more of your stack. We have to be part of the building.
Building Brimble is the hardest thing i've done in my life and to be honest I am kind of suprised to see it's still standing, it's so crazy because we don't support local builders enough and if it's in S.F it's the other way round 1) You get constantly compared to vercel/railway and it's sad because if you want to get people in this space to use it to you need to ship features to the quality they have already set (either same quality or you go higher) 2) After shipping almost the same quality, local users here still force you to make decisions by cutting cost of your product, just because you want them to use it and at the end of the day, you still get compared and you even have no choice. 3) I and abraham have been constantly bootstrapping the product for the last 4 years, so we only scale on demand. We don't have the luxury to throw money into compute unncessarily. 4) There were different iterations of the product just to get PMF, the directions changed about 2-3 times between the years. 5) oh fine, "enterprise" has the money. But at the same time, you need a good amount of money to get the licenses to support enterprise and at the same time, some enterprise will look down on you especially when it's just 2 engineers managing the product, ever since we got the idea in 2022. You do performance and security audits yourself, you need to be extremely stable (just with a team of 2 and after all that, you still get compared. It's very much fine, but nobody gives a damn) 6) Brimble literally has everything (databases, sandboxes, fullstack deployments, autoscaling, static outbound ips e.t.c). Strived to succeed 7) You are also trying to pitch to investors, in a case where some of them don't have a clue or the nuances involved in what you are building. The best everyone has to do is support local products, supporting local products even gives you as a user a ton of advantage. You control the type of features you want, the prices is very affordable for you, you'd get the maximum support you need without having to send emails or wait for 3 business days to get feedbacks. A few angels really believes in the vision and fingers crossed, really love it. But at the end of the day, it still seems you aren't good enough for people to use you. I'm extremely grateful for people that took all of these out of their mind to actually support us in terms of using the product end to end. Sharing reasonable feedbacks and also sticking around even when it had issues. If i have the opportunity to do this again, i would peacefully decline.
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Andrew Mori retweeted
Looking forward to speaking at AFSIC tomorrow in London, and joining conversations on Africa’s investment landscape, the opportunities ahead and what it takes to build and invest across the continent. If you’ll be there, would be great to connect!
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Rightsizing Kubernetes nodes is vector bin packing, and it's NP-hard. We spent weeks benchmarking and improving this algorithm; we use a greedy geometric heuristic: fast enough to run every hour, and in internal benchmarks, within a few percent of optimal latency. Excited to share more about engineering at @costgraphai
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eyy, top post on r/kubernetes
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Andrew Mori retweeted
Just tried to play this and wow! Sims style MMOPRG with 100k concurrent players as of right now. Immense global potential with one of these for every major city! Rooting for the builder to win!
I grew up playing The Sims 3 and always wondered what it would be like if the Sims lived in a world inspired by ours.🤷🏽‍♀️ Then I saw @eureka_seamless riding a danfo through Lagos, and it sparked an idea: Lagos Life Sims. Take a look around. Who knows, you might make a new friend in the Sims world. lagoslife.eliysites.com/
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Andrew Mori retweeted
Yo @markpinc have a look. 1 Million users in 3 days 100K concurrent users. Who at @zynga should they speak to? Maybe you?
I grew up playing The Sims 3 and always wondered what it would be like if the Sims lived in a world inspired by ours.🤷🏽‍♀️ Then I saw @eureka_seamless riding a danfo through Lagos, and it sparked an idea: Lagos Life Sims. Take a look around. Who knows, you might make a new friend in the Sims world. lagoslife.eliysites.com/
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Can I play Lagos Life too? FOMO is real
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Andrew Mori retweeted
World, welcome Foren @useforen After 2 years of rebuilding, Leatherback finally becomes Foren. This isn't a name change, but a totally rebuilt and re-imagined user experience is how our users interact with global money.
Foren is a massive shift in how businesses interact with global payments across markets and currencies.
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Andrew Mori retweeted
One month after launch, MTN made a decision that changed everything. They shipped out the South African team and let Nigerians run the business. Nigerian teams built it from 0 to 100 million subscribers. That's a 100% Nigerian success story and what happens when you trust local talent to build. Olu Akanmu, former CEO of Opay, breaks it all down.
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Moving closer to the metal.
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One of the most common AI questions we get from execs: "How do we let non-engineers build vibe-coded apps that become useful and aren’t a nightmare for IT?" The answer: A Citizen Developer SDLC A six-stage lifecycle that takes software built by non-technical employees with AI from personal prototype to governed production: Stage 1 (Idea): - Input: Plain-language memo, AI-assisted brief, owner, users, data sources. - Output: A durable brief that downstream checks and decisions can reference. Stage 2 (Front Door): - Input: The brief becomes the request, IT ticket, and permanent record. - Output: Every app enters triage on the record before any build work begins. Stage 3 (Triage): - Input: App shape, blast radius (reach, reversibility, exposure, data sensitivity), overlap with existing apps. - Output: Approved, reused, or escalated with full request context and a named shape. Stage 4 (Provisioning): - Input: One approval, the paved road for the app’s shape, app metadata and owner. - Output: An isolated app shell with auditability and constraints from day zero. Stage 5 (Build): - Input: Controlled cloud workspace, AI coding agent, generated contracts and test data. - Output: Routine changes move at CI speed. Consequential exceptions reach people. Stage 6 (Run and change): - Input: Production usage, change requests, audit events, ownership and access data. - Output: Promote what people use, archive what they do not, send changes back to Stage 1. One principle runs through every stage: AI does the labor, deterministic code sets the guardrails, and humans handle the exceptions. It exists because AI collapsed the cost of writing code to near zero and moved the bottleneck downstream, to making sure what got built is sound and keeping a growing fleet of it governed once it is live.
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Amongst my friends, Spotify is the lowest quality consumer app we still pay for. It certainly hasnt gotten noticeably better in the last couple years (arguably worse). So, this is not the positive look Ant and Spotify are spinning here. Bigger picture, this is the problem with a lot of AI reporting. It reports completely meaningless metrics like deploys per day or LoC. Why don’t we start reporting consumer satisfaction reports? Actually end state research results. All the no nuance AI people always come out and think that this is anti AI. Again, I think AI is great and Claude is great. But this is bad marketing and makes both look like clowns.
Boris sat down with Spotify VP of Engineering Niklas Gustavsson. Spotify ships 4,500 production deploys a day, and 73% of PRs are now AI-assisted.
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Love this. Stop complaining and become a part of the solution. Nice one @hackSultan and thanks for using @Salus_Cloud . Hoping others will follow your lead and build. Sign up on Salus and get credits to try it out.
Another advantage of being in tech is being able to see a problem and think of multiple solutions instead of just complaining. When the Nigerian government launched the list of PVC ( CVR) centres, it was a minimal interface that required you to do alot of manual work. When I saw it, I decided to build two things with @Salus_Cloud ASAP. 1. An interface that allows you search your address or location, and it'll show you the closest PVC center from your location. 2. Get daily email reminder with the locations that'll encourage you to go and get your PVC, and these emails will only stop once you tell the system that you've gotten your PVC. Do your part as a Nigerian today, Join 500+ people and go to pvc.salus.sh and find the location close to you. Before VS after
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176,750. That’s the number of polling units in Nigeria. I’m not here to tell you to vote for a specific candidate. It’s your duty to think and do your research, but I’ll make your voting experience easier and better. It’s important to know exactly where you’ll be voting and to register beforehand, but the official government website doesn’t show the closest polling unit to your home. So go to pvc.salus.sh and find the closest PVC centre and polling unit to you. This is my contribution to our society.
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Claude Code users are becoming the React developers of AI coding agents. You can’t tell them there are alternatives. Yep, i said it! So I did the comparison nobody wanted: - Claude Code @claudeai vs - Codex @OpenAIDevs vs - OpenCode @opencode Remember, I'm just the messenger, don't shoot me 😂 medium.com/@unicodeveloper/c…
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I have not been this excited about technology in over 20 years. As an IC turned Manager/CEO I have gone with several years with no commits, to several commits daily. Rght now, I am building, deploying & operating full stack without leaving claude and it feels like the future.
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