Foster Dompreh

Data engineering, economics, research and startups. Tinkering with AI/ML.

Building @payogoHQ @chalehub

[Foster Dompreh @fosterdompreh]

In Man's Search for Meaning, author and holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl showed that even during the worst of times we can feel hope. However, in order to have hope, we must find meaning or purpose in the challenges we face. We must take something bad and turn it into good.

[Foster Dompreh @fosterdompreh]

Hhhmmm

[Pickins Hub @pickinshub]

I just got an email from GSE saying I should not display any GSE stock data on my platform even with a WARNING leading to legal issues. I thought I was just sharing and helping investors analyze the Ghana stock market.

I can't display GSE data unless I pay GHS 40,000.00 per year or Global Fee: US$ 14,000.00 per year.

I've been preaching the Ghana Stock Exchange for many years. I built this with a good intention to help the Ghanaian retail investors research analyze Ghana stocks. I've spent thousands of USD in AI credits data analysis building this without generating anything. Subscriptions are used for AI research credits.

I respect their decision unfortunately, I need to hold on with GSE market (which is publicly available) till I make enough money to pay GHS 40K.

Please bear with me while I go through this process. I will do my best to find a solution to this. I'm just a normal finance & tech guy.

[Esi 💞 @MaameEsiLaurel]

My life in Accra Life 🇬🇭 @AccraLifeApp #AccraLife
Play free with me: https://t.co/x5Bkw8GsI8

[Foster Dompreh @fosterdompreh]

The Atoms are coming together

[Alexander Koch @alexkoch_ai]

You can now book our humanoid cleaning service in Los Angeles at https://t.co/Brl42KyISx. If you don’t have an invite code yet, join the waitlist.

Watch our humanoids cleaning customers’ homes in the thread below.

[Foster Dompreh @fosterdompreh]

More shops for users. Accra life just got way more fun.

[Accra Life App @AccraLifeApp]

NEW: We introduced Your shop. Your name in neon 🏪✨ Look inside every shop in Accra Life, then 📣 advertise yours: Sponsored at the top, on the billboards, and see who saw it 👀

Play free 👉🏾 https://t.co/pHgAAZyXcZ

#AccraLife #Ghana #Accra #lagoslife #SmallBusiness

[Foster Dompreh @fosterdompreh]

Nice one! This is real life sim!

[Accra Life App @AccraLifeApp]

NEW: CAPE COAST IS OPEN!

Accra Life adds Cape Coast to its list of places to visit.

🗺️ 18 places: Kotokuraba, UCC, Kakum, Brenu, Elmina

Visit the Cape Coast Castle, UCC, Kotokoraba market and more.

Try: https://t.co/DoEic9zXQb

#accralife #accra

[Foster Dompreh @fosterdompreh]

Introducing mining lol. Eiii

[Accra Life App @AccraLifeApp]

🏔️ Mining is big money now! 5 gold concessions in Tarkwa: GH₵10M each (or GH₵2M down with a loan), about GH₵60k profit EVERY game day. Needs a 📜 mining licence from the Minerals Commission. Find them in 📱 Industry → 🏔️ Gold mines 💰

#accralife

[Foster Dompreh @fosterdompreh]

@joe_darko You guys are doing some wonderful product development for the future. Sadly, you get copied a lot by the big guys.

I can’t wait to try the Specs!

[Accra Life App @AccraLifeApp]

Enter the Gym in Accra Life. Treadmill, weights, Afrobeats dance class, personal trainer, protein shakes 🥤 Fit people tire slower. Play free: https://t.co/pHgAAZyXcZ #AccraLife #Ghana #shorts #lagoslife

[Foster Dompreh @fosterdompreh]

@_nanadev Business models are just dopamine hits strategies. Every app or game is optimized for some if not all.

Hence the real customer is either spending more (make it easier for them) or playing more (make it harder for them to stick to it)

The IC is embedded in the game.

[Foster Dompreh @fosterdompreh]

@pazunre @joe_darko @papasamo_gh @KhayaAI I totally agree. What some people miss is the fact that if we don’t care, big tech will choose what they want and its numbers game.

My only concern is your opinion about “we should be in control, not consumers”. To me, Consumers should decide based on how they use translation.

[Foster Dompreh @fosterdompreh]

The goal shouldn’t just be to make AI speak Twi. It’s also about building local talent, language technology, and expertise that we can build on.

Why should Chinese developers build their own models when ChatGPT already exists?

[Papa Samo @papasamo_gh]

I see these posts all the time and I get confused.

Ghanaians do not know that ChatGPT and Gemini already speak Twi incredibly well?

I must be very dumb, but someone please explain the need for our own Twi model?

Like Khaya AI. What is the need for a dedicated Twi model, when the frontier models already inherently understand these languages?

[Foster Dompreh @fosterdompreh]

@pazunre @joe_darko @papasamo_gh @KhayaAI Couldn’t agree more with this statement. The lesser known languages are left behind in development.

To me, the focus shouldn’t be to beat Google or OpenAI, it should rather focus on building the best models to communicate among local languages.

[Foster Dompreh @fosterdompreh]

Building something people actually want is no walk in the park.😎

Users will drag you around like a horse pulling a carriage. Every day, there’s a new request, a new problem, or something they want you to change.

But that’s the job: listen, learn, prioritize, and keep building.

[Foster Dompreh @fosterdompreh]

@joe_darko @papasamo_gh I don’t fully disagree with him, I’m looking at the issue from the angle of getting locals in the process of building these llms.

Google, OpenAi or Anthropic are too big to be beaten by @pazunre and his team at @KhayaAI.

Guys at GhanaNLP are learning a lot.

[Foster Dompreh @fosterdompreh]

@rubenssoto_ai This is pretty nice.

[Foster Dompreh @fosterdompreh]

Argon is pretty good just saw a bit of it. Google is still in the game.

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

Gemini 4 Argon is here.

It’s available globally today for developers and enterprises in the paid tier of the Gemini API and the Gemini platform, for Ultra subscribers in Google Antigravity, and Ultra and Pro subscribers in the Gemini app and Search.

Hope you all enjoy it!

[Foster Dompreh @fosterdompreh]

The autoplay feature on https://t.co/HGiRzWVfq9 is pretty cool. Turn your sim into a humanoid, it works while you’re offline.

[Incrediblearthur @incredible123Az]

While i was away, I spent GH₵ 25 on meals.Thats the auto work feature 🎉 @AccraLifeApp #AccraLife
Play free with me: https://t.co/CPcBI74DnD

[Foster Dompreh @fosterdompreh]

When you hire great engineers, they can make an “ok” product super good. What they don’t have is exceptional engineers who could invent and make it great.

As a result we should appreciate the other companies they copied from even more.

[stemonte @stemonteduro]

Meta just launched Muse Wonder.

Here's everything Meta has "invented":

- Facebook > Winklevoss twins (allegedly)
- Instagram > Acquired
- WhatsApp > Acquired
- Oculus > Acquired
- Stories > Snapchat
- Reels > TikTok
- Threads > Twitter
- Live Audio Rooms > Clubhouse
- Meta Verified > Twitter Blue
- Edits > CapCut
- Muse > OpenClaw (they admitted)
- Muse Wonder > ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini (yrs later)

But here's the funny thing:

The one time Meta tried to invent the future, we got the metaverse.

And we all know how that went.

Yet when they take inspiration from others, they somehow turn those ideas into billion-dollar successes.

As Picasso supposedly said:

"Good artists copy. Great artists steal."

Maybe that's Meta's real superpower.

[Foster Dompreh @fosterdompreh]

Building this recent project has taught me firsthand how much distribution and scaling have evolved.
The tools change, user expectations shift, and the strategies that worked yesterday may not work now.
Building is one thing. Learning to adapt as the landscape changes is another.

[Foster Dompreh @fosterdompreh]

@Josephnartey_ Lack of confidence, it’s a trait rooted in our culture and stems from poverty. In his subconscious mind he is like “what if the minister kicks me out or the building?” Or “the big man punishes me”. I will lose this opportunity.