✨ebiyaa✨

UX Designer | IXD @

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

Stumbled on a phenomenal Ghanaian entrepreneur last week and spent time to understand her business and her motivations. She is serving small shop owners in the area around where she lives and has 700 of them as customers already. She has a degree in Actuarial Science and a Masters in Computer Science. Almost about to start a PhD.

I convinced her not to raise anything yet. This is a business that is already profitable and can expand through partnerships. Helping her with those partnerships and giving her more support in the process.

What fascinated me the most is that she is running this startup from her living room and her car. She showed me her dashboard with all the small shops she is serving and pictures of products piled up in her living room. I even went outside and saw products inside her car.

Other people are struggling with ideas but she is doing it. This is the thing I found out about Ghanaian women from my early days here. They have more self motivation than most Africans I know. They just get shit done.

She reminds me of my wife’s aunt who runs the largest trading operation I have ever seen in my life here in Accra. That is the person I want to introduce her to next, as they have so much in common.

All she did was walk up to me and introduce herself at a conference. Now, I am introducing her to family members who can help. All thanks to #3iSummit

[PKay @_Iampkay]

USD 3 billion but who’s counting 😉…

[Kweku Tech @kwekutech]

USD 1 billion.

That is how much money has moved through Ebenezer Ghanney's(@_Iampkay) hands since 2021.

Not through a legacy bank. Not through a global payments institution. Through a company he built from a desk in Accra, four years ago, with the receipts from two companies that did not survive.

His company is @usewewire. And if you read our thread (link in cs) from yesterday, you already know exactly what problem he woke up every morning to solve.

The story starts at the @upsaccra, where Ebenezer studied accounting. Not code. Not product. Money. The movement of it. The mechanics of it. The gap between what a transaction should cost and what it actually costs when it crosses an African border.

From UPSA, he moved through @GetLiquidgh, first as an accounting clerk, then leading business development and campus activations at KNUST and Legon. He was learning how financial products actually get adopted. Not in a classroom. On the ground.

Then the startups. HostelMate: a student accommodation booking platform. He listed over a thousand beds across seven hostels in Accra. Could not find product-market fit. Closed.

Powrsale: built to solve social commerce fraud, a real problem with real victims. Did not survive. He does not hide these. He says they shaped how WeWire was built from the ground up.

In September 2020, @yellowcard_app brought him in to launch their Ghana operations. No users. No transaction history. Zero paid marketing budget.
By end of month one: USD 450,000 in transactions. By year one: 150,000 users. Over USD 20 million in volume.

That is not a statistic. That is a system built by someone who knew exactly what he was doing.

But running cross-border payments from inside a crypto platform showed him a different kind of gap.

Not the consumer remittance story. The business infrastructure story. The importer in Accra paying a supplier in Nairobi. The regional company with payroll in three currencies. The operation that loses margin every single time money crosses a border.

In April 2022, he left to build the answer.

WeWire is a B2B cross-border payments company. Banking and treasury services for businesses moving money across Africa and the world. Today it operates in Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, the UAE, the USA, and Canada. Seven markets. Four years.

Yesterday we asked why sending money from Accra to Lomé costs more than from Accra to London. Lomé is three hours away. London is six thousand kilometres.

Ebenezer did not wait for someone to answer that question. He built the infrastructure that makes it answerable.

Who else do you think is quietly building cross-border payment solutions Africa actually needs?

Drop their name below🔽.

[YAW👨🏾‍🚀 from Printmote.com @YawAntwiOwusu]

.@CursorGhana hosting the first Cursor hackathon in Ghana at KNUST on March 28.

Come with your laptop, get Cursor credits, and start building with other participants.

Know someone on KNUST campus? Share this with them.

Limited slots, register now: https://t.co/3niOZdzDaY

[Desmond @desmondnyamador]

I kept reading about x402 and asking the same question.
Agents can pay for APIs, data, and compute. The protocol works beautifully. But the human who deployed the agent still has no spending rules, no audit trail, and no way to say stop.
So I built the missing layer. 🧵

[YAW👨🏾‍🚀 from Printmote.com @YawAntwiOwusu]

An afternoon well spent and a great project launched by @jmsbaduor and the team to empower more faith driven tech professionals.

You can apply for scholarship or be a mentor of @Exodtech at https://t.co/e3S1VnwAiS.

[Derrick @uxderrick]

Chime is Live 🥳

I used to forget about commitments because I'd get into deep focus mode and miss calendar notifications.

So I built something that literally takes over your entire screen 😅

Does this happen to anyone else?

🔗 Try it free for 14 days: https://t.co/nLdvpvgy2B

[Derrick @uxderrick]

CHIME HAS CROSSED 1000 ALERTS SHOWN!!!

1 2 3 4 5……1000 alerts to users…whaaaattttt!!

We’ll be launching on Product Hunt on Tuesday, if all things be equal. Will be counting on your support.

Will share the App Store link too on Monday.

Excited!!!

@usechime

[We are Building! 🇬🇭🚀🌎 @BuildingBytes]

How did Ghana’s product design scene go from small meetups to shaping world-class digital products?

James & Joseph, two pioneers of the space, share how community and mentorship built today’s design ecosystem.

Watch the full episode on YouTube: https://t.co/HjpMWD9DbF

[WeWire @usewewire]

After soaring past $3,400 an ounce, gold’s rally met gravity this week. A sharp selloff rattled traders as geopolitical tremors, from Russian refinery attacks to whispers of a Trump–Putin peace dialogue, reshaped sentiment.

Read more ▶️https://t.co/aizxZJ8Uy8

[Derrick @uxderrick]

Solving my own problems — introducing Chime!

Sometimes you lose track of time while working or in focus mode. Calendar notifications come but you miss them because they're subtle and designed not to interrupt your flow.

Well, not Chime 😅

Chime gives you full-screen alerts minutes before every meeting; giving you time to actually prepare. It also works with your Reminders app (both macOS & iOS).

It's impossible to ignore.

Works with Google calendar, Outlook, etc.

Check thread for waitlist!

[The Exodtech Initiative @Exodtech]

We have been cooking, now it’s time to serve you! It’s launch time! The Exodtech Initiative is officially here 🎉 Let’s build with faith and code with purpose 💻✨
#FaithToFuture #Exodtech

[WeWire @usewewire]

Manage over 10+ fiat currencies and stablecoins from one WeWire account.

Seamless, borderless, and built for businesses that move globally.
Send, receive, and hold value, all in one place🔥

#wewire #multicurrency #crossborderpayments

[✨ebiyaa✨ @_ebiyaa]

@uxderrick Thank you Lord 🥹

[WeWire @usewewire]

As we wrap up Customer Service Week, our CEO took a moment to share the heart behind WeWire, the vision that started it all, and the value we continue to bring to every business that trusts us.🎉

#CustomerServiceWeek2025 #MissionPossible

[WeWire @usewewire]

Still on Customer Service Week, here’s the question of the day:

“Do you believe in the saying ‘customers are always right’? If yes, why or why not?”
We threw this to some of our Marketing teammates in Nigeria and here’s what they had to say 👇
#CustomerServiceWeek2025

[WeWire @usewewire]

While your operations span borders, many traditional providers don’t. They restrict certain regions, impose transaction limits, and introduce unnecessary delays, right when speed and certainty matter most.💯

WeWire’s OTC Trading Desk is designed to solve for that.

[WeWire @usewewire]

The Hackhive Mixer wasn’t just a closing event — it was a celebration of bold ideas, real collaboration, and the incredible people who made this possible.

To every participant, speaker, partner, sponsor, and supporter: thank you.❤️

Hackhive1.0 was a success because of you.

[WeWire @usewewire]

We're proud to announce that, Eben Ghanney, CEO of WeWire, has been honored with the Youth in Innovation in Fintech Award by the Millennium Excellence Foundation, presented by The Royal King Otumfuo🔥

Eben stands out as the youngest recipient— a milestone that speaks volumes❤️

[WeWire @usewewire]

The Hackhive came to a close this weekend at the Mixer and based on the judges decision and audience feedback, our winners🔥:

1st - Team Zenya
Emmanuella Uwudia, Jesse Murah
2nd- Team Redenvu
Monica Quainoo, Dorothy Assan
3rd - Team HomeCareLink
Mohammed Manaf, Martha Esinam