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Why most SaaS fail in Africa
Beyond the landing page: payments, distribution, and trust assumptions that don’t survive first contact with the market.
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Notes on payment systems, distributed architectures, and lessons from building financial infrastructure in Africa.
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Designing scalable fintech systems
Clear money boundaries, idempotent commands, and ledgers your finance team can reason about — not just a bigger Postgres cluster.
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Architecture reviews that actually help
Fewer slides, clearer decisions: ADRs as a contract between teams — not a beauty contest for diagrams.
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Design tokens at system boundaries
Semantic tokens for the design system; product layers only where marketing and UX need to diverge — without breaking engineering or accessibility.
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Mobile money integration patterns for African fintech
Wave, Orange Money, Free Money: the API gaps, callback traps, and idempotency pitfalls that production systems expose — and how to architect around them.
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Product brief — one-page template
A single page to align problem, users, metrics, and explicit non-goals before anyone draws a diagram.
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