Hanif Ogunlade

Building my way into tech & business 🚀 | Sharing the wins, Ls & lessons

[Hanif Ogunlade @asta30201]

Sometimes you just feel like quitting and letting everything fall into place or waiting for that best time to start again. That is not the mindset you should have let me.🔥🔥🔥

Let me introduce myself my name is Hanif Ogunlade. I am from Nigeria and an aspiring founder and entrepreneur.
My goal for this month is to create,connect and make that money
I will be documenting everything everyday and I hope you guys are ready to show up to and be successful with me
#buildinpublic #Nigeria

[Hanif Ogunlade @asta30201]

I am attending this let’s all build in public 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[Tech_baby @Tech_babby]

“I want to host an event is the easy part”

Planning for the event can actually drive you crazy 😂

We have just 200 slots available.

Tickets go live this weekend ❤️

Who’s coming to the AI Career summit?👨🏽‍💻

[Tech_baby @Tech_babby]

“I want to host an event is the easy part”

Planning for the event can actually drive you crazy 😂

We have just 200 slots available.

Tickets go live this weekend ❤️

Who’s coming to the AI Career summit?👨🏽‍💻

[Hanif Ogunlade @asta30201]

@PrinceProjectX I applied to one of your jobs two weeks ago and I didn’t even get an update

[Hanif Ogunlade @asta30201]

@PrinceProjectX Hey

[Hanif Ogunlade @asta30201]

This app I’m building is slowly becoming a ridiculous time saver 😭

Even for a business like mine, there’s always too much to keep track of.

Orders.
Customers.
Payments.
Stock.
And all those small tasks that quietly eat your time.

That’s the idea behind SabiOrder:

Take the repetitive business admin off your plate so you can focus on actually running and growing the business.

Less busywork.
More time.
More room to make money. 🚀🇳🇬

Still building… 👀

[Tomilola • Software Engineer @tomilola_ng]

This app I built has saved me a ridiculous amount of time 😭

I no longer lose potential clients because I took too long to prepare their onboarding forms.

I just describe the project, @Formtasia generates a personalized onboarding form, I make my edits and send it.

Something that used to take me or someone on my team almost an hour now takes seconds.

Life is good bro 😭

@Formtasia is genuinely becoming a time saver AND a money maker for me.

[Hanif Ogunlade @asta30201]

Good marketing is harder than good software development.

As a builder, you can write code, hit run and immediately know:

✅ It works
❌ It doesn’t

Marketing?

You can post for weeks and hear crickets. 😭

Then one random post reaches the right person and suddenly everything starts moving.

Coding gives you immediate feedback.

Marketing makes you keep putting in pennies while wondering if you’re wasting your time. 😂

I think that delayed feedback is what makes marketing so hard for builders.

You need patience… and a slightly unreasonable belief in what you’re building. 🚀

[Tomilola • Software Engineer @tomilola_ng]

I’ve been on both sides of this, and I don’t think GOOD marketing is harder than GOOD software development.

It depends on how your brain is wired.

Software development rewards you almost immediately for effort. You write the code, run it, and you can literally see whether it works.

Marketing is different.

You can publish 20 articles, send 500 cold emails, post consistently for months and feel like absolutely nothing is happening.

Then one article starts ranking. One post reaches the right person. One campaign compounds, and suddenly the work you did months ago starts paying you.

Software development is more like: put in a penny, see what the penny produced.

Marketing is: keep putting in pennies while wondering if you’re stupid, then hopefully watch them compound 😂

I think that delayed feedback loop is what makes marketing feel much harder for builders.

You need a ridiculous amount of patience.

[Hanif Ogunlade @asta30201]

@tomilola_ng @Formtasia Nice one

[Hanif Ogunlade @asta30201]

I tried a roast site from @mscode07 today and honestly… this thing is goated 😂🔥

I put my landing page in expecting a decent score.

26/100. 💀

But the feedback actually made sense. It showed me the flaws I couldn’t really see myself — clarity, audience, value, trust, CTA, etc.

Sometimes you’re just too close to what you’re building to notice what’s wrong.

Got humbled today 😂

https://t.co/7GS4x4s2W1

[Hanif Ogunlade @asta30201]

Happy Sunday just another day working on SabiOrder

[Hanif Ogunlade @asta30201]

New laptop. 🥹💻

It might look like “just a laptop” to someone else, but for me, it’s a reminder that we grow every day.

From coding on my phone 😭 to finally having a proper setup.

Now I can build faster, learn more, break things more efficiently 😂 and hopefully create bigger things.

Small wins still count.

We move. 🚀

[Hanif Ogunlade @asta30201]

Unpopular opinion:

Your first version doesn’t need to impress anyone.

It needs to teach you something.

You can spend 3 months making it beautiful…

Or 2 weeks putting it in people’s hands and finding out if they actually care.

I’m choosing the second one. 👀

Ship → learn → improve. 🚀

[Hanif Ogunlade @asta30201]

Day 28. 🇳🇬🚀

We’ve changed the idea.
We’ve questioned the idea.
We’ve rebuilt the idea. 😂

Now there’s only one thing left:

SHIP IT.

SabiOrder is getting closer.

No more endless planning.
No more “we’ll do it tomorrow.”

Build. Launch. Learn.

August 30. We move. 👀🔥

[Hanif Ogunlade @asta30201]

Option 1 — Spicy

Bro 😭

https://t.co/Krl3gY7D8Y is blowing up everywhere in just DAYS.

And you already know what happens next…

COPYCATS EVERYWHERE 😂

But it got me thinking…

What if Nigeria had its own version? 🇳🇬

Not iPhones. Not random physical products.

I’m talking avatars, clothes, digital items, bidding wars, flexing, chaos. 😂

Imagine someone bidding ₦200 for a rare Nigerian drip item and another person enters with ₦500 like:

“Omo shift, this one na mine.” 😭

A proper Nigerian virtual bidding world.

I’m not saying I’m building this…

but I might be cooking 👀🇳🇬

[Hanif Ogunlade @asta30201]

Good morning, builders ☀️🇳🇬

A business owner shouldn’t need to be a full-time detective. 😂

“Who ordered this?”
“Who has paid?”
“Where is this order?”
“Do we still have this in stock?”

Too much wahala for one person. 😭

That’s the problem we’re trying to solve with SabiOrder.

Less chasing. More running the business.

What’s the most stressful part of running a small business? 👇🏾

[Hanif Ogunlade @asta30201]

@RemotejobWtessy I am interested

[Hanif Ogunlade @asta30201]

Building a startup is funny 😂

You start with:

“Let’s build something cool.”

Then reality hits:

🔧 Fix this
🐛 Break that
🤔 Change the idea
📚 Research again
😵‍💫 Question everything
🚀 Build again

But one thing hasn’t changed:

SabiOrder must make running a business easier.

Still building. Still learning. Still shipping. 🇳🇬

We move. 🚀

[Simon Squibb @simonsquibb]

Please make this go viral X friends!

Wanna help me fund even more dreamers?

Then simply buy a coffee below (not from Starbucks!) and let’s fuel people’s dreams together! 👇🏻🙏🏻❤️

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ps. Know anyone that likes coffee? Share this with them 🙏🏻❤️

[Hanif Ogunlade @asta30201]

Day 25 of building in public.

One thing I’m learning while building SabiOrder:

The hardest part isn’t building features.

It’s figuring out which problem is painful enough for someone to actually care about.

You can spend weeks building something “useful”…

…and nobody uses it. 😭

So now the goal is simple:

Build → put it in people’s hands → watch what they do → improve.

No more hiding behind the roadmap.

Let’s see what happens. 👀