Nairaland,

I am African-American, proposing an effort between underserved markets here in America and emerging markets in Africa.

There are great opportunities among us.

Fueled by racial inequality, African-Americans are motivated to:

- Start businesses
- Make investments
- Buy from Black owned businesses
- Seek financial freedom
- Pass down generational wealth

The problem is only a few get it. Most don’t have the tools, or know where to start.

What I can ascertain from books and other media sources, Nigerians need:

- Startup funding
- Employment
- Competitive edge (American ties)
- Improved Infrastructure / Logistics
- Also financial freedom

Thus a need exists for a novel platform in which the two niche groups can benefit from various degrees of partnerships and financing. A type of symbiosis utilizing resource management with means of navigating public policy and diminishing complexities of the underserved and emerging markets gaining transnational exposure.

To increase chances of success and maximize impact it needs to be open source, for the most part. Data and third-party plugins will be proprietary. Anyone can create and monetize plugins.

Ideally, as the app is created so will documentation and detailed tutorials. Anyone will be able to play with the source code and get involved.

Before announcing the project in a major way, methodologies, processes, and procedures of operation need to be tested and worked out to ease onboarding.

Although the GitHub repository will be available for anyone to contribute, it’s necessary to designate a Junior Android Developer as Core Contributor to help create a simple minimum viable product.

Typically developers work on open source projects for free. However I am very passionate about this project and willing to pay 100 USD, or about 41k NGN a month for someone to help me get started.

This is more of a side project than full-time work.

The candidate should have some familiarity with:

- Kotlin
- Android Studio
- GitHub
- Command Line

And able to commit to at least one short weekly virtual meeting (10 - 15 min).
Also respond to email and or other agreed upon methods of communication in a reasonable amount of time.

This is a great opportunity to sharpen your developer skills. Even if you’re not a Core Contributor you can still contribute as a volunteer.

The goal is to eventually form a startup where contributors to the open source project will be prioritized for full-time hire.

I welcome all suggestions and questions.

Thanks,

Metajinn

No matter what you do, DO NOT LET ANYONE try to take the conversation away from here. Keep the conversation in the open as much as you can.

And please tamper your expectations from us. The concept of time for us is very different from what you are used to in the US. 10am is not a discrete point in time for us but a range. That range could be anywhere from a few minutes to 10am to as much as 11:30am, may even 12pm. This may make us seem unserious or irresponsible but that's a cultural artifact.

Metajinn:
Nairaland,

I am African-American, proposing an effort between underserved markets here in America and emerging markets in Africa.

There are great opportunities among us.

Fueled by racial inequality, African-Americans are motivated to:

- Start businesses
- Make investments
- Buy from Black owned businesses
- Seek financial freedom
- Pass down generational wealth

The problem is only a few get it. Most don’t have the tools, or know where to start.

What I can ascertain from books and other media sources, Nigerians need:

- Startup funding
- Employment
- Competitive edge (American ties)
- Improved Infrastructure / Logistics
- Also financial freedom

Thus a need exists for a novel platform in which the two niche groups can benefit from various degrees of partnerships and financing. A type of symbiosis utilizing resource management with means of navigating public policy and diminishing complexities of the underserved and emerging markets gaining transnational exposure.

To increase chances of success and maximize impact it needs to be open source, for the most part. Data and third-party plugins will be proprietary. Anyone can create and monetize plugins.

Ideally, as the app is created so will documentation and detailed tutorials. Anyone will be able to play with the source code and get involved.

Before announcing the project in a major way, methodologies, processes, and procedures of operation need to be tested and worked out to ease onboarding.

Although the GitHub repository will be available for anyone to contribute, it’s necessary to designate a Junior Android Developer as Core Contributor to help create a simple minimum viable product.

Typically developers work on open source projects for free. However I am very passionate about this project and willing to pay 100 USD, or about 41k NGN a month for someone to help me get started.

This is more of a side project than full-time work.

The candidate should have some familiarity with:

- Kotlin
- Android Studio
- GitHub
- Command Line

And able to commit to at least one short weekly virtual meeting (10 - 15 min).
Also respond to email and or other agreed upon methods of communication in a reasonable amount of time.

This is a great opportunity to sharpen your developer skills. Even if you’re not a Core Contributor you can still contribute as a volunteer.

The goal is to eventually form a startup where contributors to the open source project will be prioritized for full-time hire.

I welcome all suggestions and questions.

Thanks,

Metajinn

I'm interested. You can check my bio to contact me.

Metajinn:
Nairaland,

I am African-American, proposing an effort between underserved markets here in America and emerging markets in Africa.

There are great opportunities among us.

Fueled by racial inequality, African-Americans are motivated to:

- Start businesses
- Make investments
- Buy from Black owned businesses
- Seek financial freedom
- Pass down generational wealth

The problem is only a few get it. Most don’t have the tools, or know where to start.

What I can ascertain from books and other media sources, Nigerians need:

- Startup funding
- Employment
- Competitive edge (American ties)
- Improved Infrastructure / Logistics
- Also financial freedom

Thus a need exists for a novel platform in which the two niche groups can benefit from various degrees of partnerships and financing. A type of symbiosis utilizing resource management with means of navigating public policy and diminishing complexities of the underserved and emerging markets gaining transnational exposure.

To increase chances of success and maximize impact it needs to be open source, for the most part. Data and third-party plugins will be proprietary. Anyone can create and monetize plugins.

Ideally, as the app is created so will documentation and detailed tutorials. Anyone will be able to play with the source code and get involved.

Before announcing the project in a major way, methodologies, processes, and procedures of operation need to be tested and worked out to ease onboarding.

Although the GitHub repository will be available for anyone to contribute, it’s necessary to designate a Junior Android Developer as Core Contributor to help create a simple minimum viable product.

Typically developers work on open source projects for free. However I am very passionate about this project and willing to pay 100 USD, or about 41k NGN a month for someone to help me get started.

This is more of a side project than full-time work.

The candidate should have some familiarity with:

- Kotlin
- Android Studio
- GitHub
- Command Line

And able to commit to at least one short weekly virtual meeting (10 - 15 min).
Also respond to email and or other agreed upon methods of communication in a reasonable amount of time.

This is a great opportunity to sharpen your developer skills. Even if you’re not a Core Contributor you can still contribute as a volunteer.

The goal is to eventually form a startup where contributors to the open source project will be prioritized for full-time hire.

I welcome all suggestions and questions.

Thanks,

Metajinn

I'm interested. Send me a mail let's talk

EbenG:


I'm interested. Send me a mail let's talk

Search Mulacanoe on Telegram where instructions are pinned.

youngscholar:


I'm interested. You can check my bio to contact me.

Search Mulacanoe on Telegram where instructions are pinned.

100 USD?

Very big money in Nigeria, that is President Buhari's official salary.

Weldone Sir.

Metajinn:
Nairaland,

I am African-American, proposing an effort between underserved markets here in America and emerging markets in Africa.

There are great opportunities among us.

Fueled by racial inequality, African-Americans are motivated to:

- Start businesses
- Make investments
- Buy from Black owned businesses
- Seek financial freedom
- Pass down generational wealth

The problem is only a few get it. Most don’t have the tools, or know where to start.

What I can ascertain from books and other media sources, Nigerians need:

- Startup funding
- Employment
- Competitive edge (American ties)
- Improved Infrastructure / Logistics
- Also financial freedom

Thus a need exists for a novel platform in which the two niche groups can benefit from various degrees of partnerships and financing. A type of symbiosis utilizing resource management with means of navigating public policy and diminishing complexities of the underserved and emerging markets gaining transnational exposure.

To increase chances of success and maximize impact it needs to be open source, for the most part. Data and third-party plugins will be proprietary. Anyone can create and monetize plugins.

Ideally, as the app is created so will documentation and detailed tutorials. Anyone will be able to play with the source code and get involved.

Before announcing the project in a major way, methodologies, processes, and procedures of operation need to be tested and worked out to ease onboarding.

Although the GitHub repository will be available for anyone to contribute, it’s necessary to designate a Junior Android Developer as Core Contributor to help create a simple minimum viable product.

Typically developers work on open source projects for free. However I am very passionate about this project and willing to pay 100 USD, or about 41k NGN a month for someone to help me get started.

This is more of a side project than full-time work.

The candidate should have some familiarity with:

- Kotlin
- Android Studio
- GitHub
- Command Line

And able to commit to at least one short weekly virtual meeting (10 - 15 min).
Also respond to email and or other agreed upon methods of communication in a reasonable amount of time.

This is a great opportunity to sharpen your developer skills. Even if you’re not a Core Contributor you can still contribute as a volunteer.

The goal is to eventually form a startup where contributors to the open source project will be prioritized for full-time hire.

I welcome all suggestions and questions.

Thanks,

Metajinn

Typically developers work on open source projects for free. However I am very passionate about this project and willing to pay 100 USD, or about 41k NGN a month for someone to help me get started.
You are wrong. Some dev work for only very big open source projects for free.

I guess u know the reason.

Its for clout.

For an unknown company u go pay big 4 Naija.