I’m building QuickCart — Shopify made for African merchants. One seller got early access. Less than a month later, they did ₦6.1M in sales through the platform. That’s the only proof that matters right now. I’m sharing the full journey here: the wins, the ugly parts, the decisions, and everything in between. Early access waitlist is live. Follow along if you want to see how this unfolds.

I'm honestly shocked by how useful @boardyai is. I explained who I'm trying to reach with QuickCart. It found relevant people, explained why they fit, and requested introductions. Still waiting to see where those lead, but this is already one of the coolest tools I've tried.

Launching rockets or launching apps, both require precision and careful planning. 🚀

I spoke with people who could become QuickCart merchants and came away with a clear lesson: They don’t just need another tool to manage their store. They need help bringing customers to it. That changes what we should focus on. A great storefront matters, but it only solves part of the problem. We’re building QuickCart with that in mind. The product has to help merchants sell, not just give them more software to manage.

QuickCart got approved on Google Play. Then it crashed the moment you opened it. That was my build, not Google. A release setting broke the app on launch, and my tests never ran that build. It's fixed now. Waiting for another review again 🥲

Launch your online store in under 60 seconds. We’ll handle the deliveries. 🚀 Most African merchants who try to sell online still end up running the store on one tool, taking payments on another, and chasing deliveries on WhatsApp. Orders get lost and payouts get delayed. QuickCart is the store and the operations layer built for that setup. Two merchant on early access has already processed over ₦20 million + in sales. Real orders, not a test account. Early access is open. Join the list: quickcart.ng/

AI is leverage, not a substitute for competence.

Just fixed a bug where merchants couldn't delete a product they'd already sold. order_items.product_id is restrictOnDelete and Products don't soft-delete, so deleting anything with order history is a real SQL DELETE that Postgres refuses. Should've been an archive from day one.

$100 Claude Max used to feel like overkill. Now it feels like a tax on momentum. Hitting the wall mid-session while shipping is more expensive than the extra $100. Going Max 20x. If you’re building every day and still rationing Claude, you’re paying with time not money.

One thing building QuickCart has taught me: Skill gets you started. Capital keeps you moving. Distribution gets you seen. The right tools give you leverage. You can build something people genuinely need and still struggle because the resources to move fast are expensive.

One of our QuickCart vendors just reported they can’t delete a product. Found the bug. Looks like tonight is for fixing things merchants should never have to think about 😅

Just cracked my laptop screen while building major features. It has more lines than my code now. Anyway, we keep shipping. 🫡

The inability to take imperfect action is often an ego problem. You’re not waiting for perfection. You’re protecting yourself from being seen failing. Founders who win ship before they feel ready, learn in public, get humbled by reality, and keep moving.

The hardest part is realizing that building something impressive doesn’t automatically make people care. Attention has to be earned too.

Locking in tonight. No new features. No distractions. Just fixing the critical bugs that stand between QuickCart and a more reliable product. Building is fun. Nights like this are what make the product actually ready.

What building this has taught me: Execution > ideas. Customer intimacy > feature lists. Momentum > perfection. Everything else is noise.

Today's focus: registering QuickCart as an actual business. CAC documents, compliance paperwork — the stuff no merchant ever sees. Paystack won't unlock the next tier without it. The product grew faster than the business behind it. Fixing that now.