Alonge_himself | Building Dripend

Building Dripend, a WhatsApp AI that improves your spending habits.
30 days. Public build. True MVP.
Watch me become a product owner.

[Alonge_himself | Building Dripend @AlongeVictor1]

Be honest.

Has your salary ever finished before the month ended — even though you planned to budget?

Nobody teaches us self-control with money. You get paid once, then fight temptation every day.

I’m building Dripend a WhatsApp-based budgeting tool that releases your money gradually, so overspending becomes harder by default.

We’re inviting a small group of early beta testers to validate this idea and help shape it.

👉 Join the waitlist if this sounds like something you’d actually use.https://t.co/HwYYONreff

[Alonge_himself | Building Dripend @AlongeVictor1]

@TommiPedruzzi Send

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@Footballmomt_1 My brother🫩

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@elonmusk Accuse others of what you are doing.
The oldest play in the Marxist playbook

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@Agenda_mafian God bless our mom's

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Honest question:

When you budget, what usually breaks it first?

[Alonge_himself | Building Dripend @AlongeVictor1]

It's true that breaking a budgets seldom break your finances all at once. Instead, they break with grace.
Here's one drink.
There's one favour.
"It's not that bad to get this".
Then, all of a sudden, it's week three, and you have to rely on one mobile loan app to get by for the remainder of the month. same cycle. each month. Each year. In the background, tension is subtly building.

With Dripend, we hope to bridge that calm gap before things get out of control.

[Alonge_himself | Building Dripend @AlongeVictor1]

"Just budget better" seems like a good idea, but it assumes that people can always exercise perfect self-control.

Willpower gradually wanes when all of your money is available at once.
That isn't a weakness in character. It's an issue with system design.

Any significant effort to address this, such as the one we're trying with Dripend, must be constructed using actual banking infrastructure rather than just good intentions.

For this reason, as we validate, we are conducting preliminary discussions with platforms such as Anchor.

What's your take? Is this a systemic issue or a discipline issue?

Dripend is still modest. I'm still listening. Validation is still ongoing.

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@john322226 🤣 this man

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@iamGustavomedl1 🙄 I go beat you ooo

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@SmallD05 🤣🤣🤣

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@humanly_typed Sweet tooth, I see you....

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@roblayzer I did, so?
Am I supposed to build without users opinion ?

[Alonge_himself | Building Dripend @AlongeVictor1]

@NwamaB Impulse buying is a behavioral issue and that's exactly what dripend tackles.

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@Akalonubenard How you go do na, man need light and data... But it can be better. Try registering on our wait-list

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@simplyFera Start budgeting first.
1 more successful person pushes Nigeria forward gradually.... Do what is within your ability first and see the ripple effect.

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@bahdboiMike can your income cover all ur monthly expense?
If not, you need dripend to stand a better chance at bargaining better.
Ibit does, you just need dripend to help you plan you day. One day at a time.

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@D_Oluwashina Leave those ones and solve the ones you expect for the month first. That what Dripend is for.

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@olamidecrypt Everybody that has an issue with the current price of data abeg raise your hand. ✋

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@ifunanya_xpert Complaining about Tinubu won't change anything.
This isn't even a problem peculiar to Nigerians, it everywhere, it's a pandemic, we just don't know it yet.

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@thomasseyi52 I have one small heart throb like that too.