Horlah

I am a Mobile developer | Dart |Flutter & a Graphics designer | Learning iot

[Horlah @awolumate__]

Hi, flutter peeps
My first flutter app on playstore
https://t.co/iSpO3xtotq
Check it out guys
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[Horlah @awolumate__]

@kiddo4lyf congratulations chief

[Theflutterbookclub @Theflutterbookc]

There’s a distinct energy in a room where builders aren’t just theorising about ideas.
They’re putting working products on screen and asking: "How can we make this better?"

Alongside updates on our ongoing builds, four standout projects took the stage🧵👇

[Nnamdi Obi @nnamdiobiii]

HE dropped a follow-up. Let's go through it point by point.

He says it's not a marketing stunt. Nobody serious said it was. The question was never about motive. It was about method. You banned 25,000 users and an entire country with no appeals process, no transparency report, and no methodology you are willing to share publicly. That is not a marketing question. That is a governance question.

He mentions a fake Android app impersonating Kled in Nigeria. This is important, and it actually hurts his own argument.

If a counterfeit version of your product was running in Nigeria with a different logo and 5,000 downloads, how confident are you that your 94.2% fraud figure comes entirely from verified Kled iOS users?

You are citing fraud statistics from a Nigerian dataset while simultaneously acknowledging that a fake version of your product existed in the same market at the same time. That is a contaminated sample. You cannot use contaminated data to indict an entire country.

He says Kled was top 100 in the Nigerian App Store multiple times. Yes. Nigerians adopted your product aggressively. They put you in the top 100. They were your earliest adopters. And when you had a fraud problem in that market, your response was to ban all 25,000 of them, including every legitimate user who gave you those rankings.

Top 100 means Nigerians believed in you. The ban is how you repaid them.

He points to Sensor Tower as verification. Nobody is disputing Sensor Tower. Sensor Tower measures app rankings. That is a verifiable third-party metric.

The fraud rate is an internal metric that only Kled can see, with no third-party audit, no public methodology, and no independent verification.

He is conflating two completely different categories of claim and hoping nobody notices. We NOTICED.

He says Kled pays users for their data for AI training, and frames that as the defence. That is not a defence. That is the problem restated.

You built a cash-for-data platform. You deployed it specifically in a high-unemployment market where people are financially motivated to maximise uploads.

You created a volume-based financial incentive and then acted shocked when people gamed a volume-based financial incentive.

Any economist would call that predictable. Any product designer would call that a design flaw. Neither would call it the country's fault.

He says 25,000 Nigerian users produced 10 million uploads. Do that math with me. That is 400 uploads per user on average. Your own incentive model rewarded volume.

High-volume upload behaviour is exactly what your product was designed to produce. When bad actors gamed a volume-based reward system, the correct response is to fix the reward system. Instead, you banned the country.

He says Kled is available everywhere else in Africa, just not Nigeria, and frames that as evidence of fairness. It is not.

Nigeria is the largest economy in Africa. The largest tech talent pool in Africa. The largest digital consumer market in Africa. Of course fraud concentration scales with adoption. More users means more bad actors, that is true in every market on earth.

Banning your biggest African market and calling it a targeted, surgical, race-neutral business decision is not the neutral call he thinks it is.

His final point is the most revealing.

He tells non-Nigerian readers to click through the profiles of angry commenters to confirm they are Nigerian, as if Nigerian equals biased and therefore dismissible. In the same thread where he is defending himself against accusations of prejudice, he called his critics "very low IQ individuals."

You do not get to insult people's intelligence and then ask them to respect your objectivity. You do not get to crowd-source profile-checking of your critics and call that data.

None of this is about defending fraud. Fraud is real. Bad actors exist in every market on earth. A 95% fraud rate from a volume-incentive platform deployed in a market with structural unemployment is a product design failure that was made worse by a blanket ban that punished tens of thousands of legitimate users alongside the bad ones.

The deeper issue remains unchanged. When a startup backed by investors whose network overlaps directly with the infrastructure that built and funds Palantir exits the largest digital market in Africa citing fraud after months of data collection, the question we should be asking is not only whether Nigerians committed fraud.

The question is: who audits them? Who holds the receipt? Who decides what counts as legitimate data in a system we do not own and cannot inspect?

To my fellow NIGERIANS, stop debating whether we deserve to be on their platform.

Start building the infrastructure so that no platform can make that decision for us. Data centers. Cloud rails. Local AI training pipelines. Identity systems we control.

Every platform that exits us citing fraud is just showing us what it costs to not own our own infrastructure. The exit is the argument. Our answer is ownership.

Allow these comedians to go- they will comeback and we will tag them to this post. Everyone should get to work.

[Rapto @heyrapto]

Moniepoint headquarters is in the UK.
241 Southwark Bridge Road, London.

But their operational base is in Lagos.

So let’s call it what it is.

They are hiring in Nigeria, paying in naira, while the headquarters sits in the UK.

The CEO wakes up in London, goes to the office, grabs his morning coffee, pays rent in pounds…

while the workforce powering the system is earning in naira.

And the Customers are Nigerians

Nice one. 🙂

Sometimes, just step back and understand the perspective of what is actually being said.

[Nnamdi Obi @nnamdiobiii]

CLOWNS using the same PLAYBOOK.

Someone tagged me to this nonsense yesterday.

You banned Nigeria and called it fraud prevention. Let's be clear about what this actually is.

Your own post admits your detection system ran for months before catching a ~95% fraud rate. If your KYC is that strong, why did it take months? You don't get to announce your detection failure and then blame the country.

The 95% figure has zero public methodology. No third-party audit. No breakdown of how fraud was defined. No clarity on whether Nigerian users were flagged by the same thresholds as Malaysia or Indonesia.

You cannot cite a statistic only you can see and call it evidence.

That passport photo proves one person submitted a fake document. Not that 200 million people are fraudsters.

WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE.

A 22 year old college dropout who built a data harvesting app and dressed it up as fair compensation for the little guy.

Look at your own investor list. K5 Global and Founders Fund have co-invested in the same portfolio companies. Founders Fund is the original institutional backer of Palantir.

Your other backer, Aglaé Ventures, owned by Bernard Arnault, runs an AI portfolio that intersects directly with the same labs that Palantir's AIP platform integrates with. Nobody is making wild accusations here. We are just reading the room.

FOR MY NIGERIANS WHO DO NOT KNOW

Here is what that network is actually building. Kled mobilizes hundreds of thousands of gig workers, mostly from the Global South, to upload personal photos, videos, and documents.

You convert raw human life into machine readable product. The labs and platforms connected to your investors then take that data and make it actionable for governments, corporations, and in some cases, military operations.

Here is why Nigeria specifically matters to this model.

The major AI labs are currently being sued by artists, writers, and publishers for stealing data through web scraping. To win those cases, they need to prove they have clean, consented data.

Buying a dataset from a platform like Kled, where every user signed a digital consent form in exchange for a few dollars, gives billion dollar tech companies a legal free pass.
You are not disrupting anything. You are laundering consent for people with far more power than you.

And here is the part nobody is saying out loud. Imagine if a company already under fire for government surveillance and military contracts openly offered to pay people in developing countries to film their homes and daily lives. It would look exactly like what it is.

By using smaller startups as the public face, the same data gets collected, the same surveillance infrastructure gets fed, and the powerful names stay clean in the public eye.

A 22 year old dropout does not accidentally end up with this investor network. The connections around him tell a very specific story. We are just the ones reading it out loud.

This is the same playbook PayPal ran on Nigeria for years. Locked us out. Called us fraudsters. Made us third-class citizens of the internet economy. And when they finally came back, after years of Nigerian developers building workarounds and Nigerian users funding entire ecosystems without them, we had already moved on.

We didn't need them. We needed the infrastructure they refused to give us. They did not give it to us and we survived. You will try to re-enter but it will be too late.

To MY FELLOW NIGERIANS,

Every time a foreign platform exits Nigeria citing fraud, we debate the fraud. We rarely ask why a country of 220 million people with the largest developer community in Africa still does not own the servers, the data centers, or the infrastructure that defines what "legitimate" looks like online.

When you don't own your data infrastructure, someone else defines your identity. They decide what counts as fraud. They decide what counts as valid. They hold the receipt and you argue at the door.

The answer to Kled is not begging them to return. The answer is owning the pipes. Data centers. Local cloud infrastructure. Payment rails we control. Identity systems we built.

Every platform that exits us citing fraud is just showing us what it costs to not own our own infrastructure.
That bill keeps compounding. It is time we paid it differently.

So that next time, comedians like this will not have the guts to call us fraud without evidence.

[0xor0ne @0xor0ne]

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[Theflutterbookclub @Theflutterbookc]

The Flutter Book Club Codeathon 🧑‍💻👩‍💻
Ideas flying, codes running, time ticking ⏳

[Horlah @awolumate__]

@Marvel_14_code That's how I burnt my arduino board 😢

[Horlah @awolumate__]

#HNG stage 1 task
Im up at it.
I developed a tech trivial app using #Flutter
The app allows you to answer 10 trivia tech questions with 25secs timer.
Also, shows the correct answers and the one you missed

[Horlah @awolumate__]

This is the Start of a Journey.
Journey into #HNG13. Stage 0 task done
#Flutter

[Gautier 💙 @mcflyDev]

🧐 Flutter tips

how to show iOS live activity using Flutter
(This is not that hard)

👇 here is how to do it step by step

#flutterdev #fluttertips

[Emmanuel Onyeji🧑‍💻🫰🔥 @thetechyxander]

leaving trails for myself as i go forward, mostly one of the best things to do with AI

[Theflutterbookclub @Theflutterbookc]

Thanks to all who joined our last session as we talked about
• Why Testing Matters: Beyond Bug Catching
• Testing Pyramid & Layers: Unit Tests, Widget Tests, Integration Tests
• How James Bond kills bugs pre-prod w/ "Finder APIs" and much more

See you in the next one!

[Salahu @salahudeen33]

Say This Du'a Before You Sleep Tonight

[Idris @7signxx]

She's almost 90 ma sha Allah.
May Allah bless her...

[Horlah @awolumate__]

@Teeniiola Your first illustration is correct. Earth is spherical in shape and we all live on the surface of the earth. However earth has a force called gravitational for that pull things towards itself. That's why you can't fall off from the earth.

[Horlah @awolumate__]

@Teeniiola 395m and affordable shouldn't be in the same sentence

[القرآن @Quranconnect_]

Dear self…