We are Dynamicore. We build websites and software for businesses. Need a website that brings in customers? Or a system to track your sales, staff and stock? We can build it. We are just starting, and I'll share what we learn here. DM us if you have something in mind.
Something my sales job is teaching me: people trust you more once they have met you. Businesses I message online are hard to convince. Businesses I visit are far more likely to try it. Founders, did your first users come from online or from meeting you in person?
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AI made building alone easy, so everybody, me included, wants to be a solo founder. But the products we use were built by teams: marketing, strategy, sales. Software was never about building the thing. It is a business first. Who do you lean on for the parts you can't do?
Most of us in tech only network with other developers. But developers are not your customers. If you want your product to grow, talk to business people too, even those who don't know what JavaScript is. They know how Nigerians think and how people buy.
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I think the new skill for developers is business. Learn to code, learn to build systems, yes. But if you have no users, none of it matters. If you have users, you can hire a senior developer for the hard parts. Devs, what business book should I read first?
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@stanlee0nX your love message app is a genuinely good idea. I think it could trend, but only if it leaves the developer crowd. Take it to TikTok, to creators, to everyday people. They are the ones who will share it.
Builders, be honest: how many products have you built, and how many of them have 10 real users? I keep meeting developers with 10 or 15 products and hardly any users. Building is the easy part now.
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I spent weeks on dashboards and reports. The feature one laundry owner loves most? Receipts on WhatsApp. His reason: no more customers saying "my niece already collected it". Funny how the plain feature wins.
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Small thing I learnt this week: when I tell a business owner my app is free, they get more careful, not less. They start asking what the catch is. Still working out how to say it better.
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A dev YouTuber was asked to build an AI agent for a brewery. ChatGPT said menu optimiser. Sounds smart, but the owner never complained about his menu. His problem was getting people in, so the agent that worked did marketing. Ask what hurts before you build.
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Many business websites miss one simple thing: telling the visitor what to do next. Call? WhatsApp? Book? Pay? Pick one clear next step and make it easy to find. Open your own website now. Can you find it in 5 seconds?
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I asked a laundry owner who uses my app: if it disappeared tomorrow, what would you go back to doing by hand? First answer: receipts. Then knowing who he promised delivery to today. Then expenses. No big features. Just the plain jobs he can't afford to forget.
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A stranger on Threads gave me a question to ask my laundry owners: if my app disappeared tomorrow, which task would you go back to doing by hand? If the answer is "nothing", they were only being polite. Founders, have you asked yours?
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A stranger on Threads gave me a question to ask my laundry owners: if my app disappeared tomorrow, which task would you go back to doing by hand? If the answer is "nothing", they were only being polite. Founders, have you asked yours?
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People keep saying AI will take all the jobs. My sister is an accountant. Her firm pays for ChatGPT, everybody uses it, and they are still hiring. Maybe AI helps people finish faster, it doesn't remove the work. Anybody seeing the same thing at their own job?
Having only a few users is funny. Those three people will shape your whole app. Then when more users finally come, they complain about the very things those first three asked you to add. Founders, how do you know which feedback to follow?
Real question for developers: nobody types every line by hand anymore, so what separates a developer from a vibe coder now? My answer is that the developer knows what he is building and can tell when the AI is wrong. What is yours?
Happened to me with my first ever user. She signed up on my laundry app, the account was created but her business data wasn't. I fixed it by hand from the backend, but she stopped taking the app seriously after that. Anyone else lost a user to one bug?
Typical Nigerian address: "Yellow gate, after the second speed bump, just call me." Now every building is getting an 11-character digital postcode. Business owners, will you ask for it at checkout, or will customers still say "just call me"?
Something I read: many Nigerian businesses post on Instagram and WhatsApp every day, yet a customer searching for what they sell still can't find them. Being online and being found are not the same thing. I'm posting daily for Dynamicore too, so I'm taking note.
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Confession: I'm very good at starting things and very bad at finishing them. So I'm posting about tech journey and dynamicore every day, in public, so I can't quietly drop it. If I miss a day, come and shout at me. It's midnight and I'm here, so we are on track.
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