I help African startups build Product teams. CPO @letsOkHi More importantly, how can I help?
Cape Town, SA
Joined February 2010
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I write about Product, startups and innovation in Africa. My 40+ articles are grouped in handy lists that you can dig in easily around:
🛠 All things Product
🚀 For founders building startups
💪 Startup Support & Innovation
Find them here:
rogernort.medium.com/lists
@Discovery_SA you know that your latest bank apl update gets stuck at "contact permissions" screen in an infinite load. (Why on earth is this a compulsory blocking step?) can't access the app/bank accounts at all... 🤬
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Turns out, if a social platform lets people pay for a premium profiles & promote their content over others... You get flooded by people who WANT to amplify extreme views and drown out the middle. interesting, agandaless posts also get swamped.
I'm @rogernort on that other app
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The richest guy in the world (who runs 5+ companies and a political campaign) being top 20 globally in Diablo 4 says more about how it's pay-to-play than any brilliance on his part. #JustSaying
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@VALRdotcom your device verification emails aren't getting sent and it's blocking me from logging in... 😬 (I tried 3x over 20mins and checked spam.)
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@Sixty60_Tweets love the app overhaul and general improvements, but how do you still not have shared shopping list functionality? And why are your accounts by user not household?
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I can't help but think that the MKBDH app is the perfect example of the 💩 generated by AI code. Turns out you'll need professional software devs for a while still...
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It's 💩 all the way down...
xitter.gq/astuyve/status/1838766…
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This final footnote is probably more important than the rest of PGs founder mode post. I'm surprised it didn't make it into the copy...
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I don't understand how Google ever thought that it was a good idea training an AI on Reddit content as a place to get answers to any questions. What a dumpster fire.
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You @Apple please add a spell checker to the 'cmd + space' quick launcher. (Just like you did with the calculator)
Kthnxbye.
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Not to be overly keen to “delve” into a cesspit, but I think the point was that AIs have fingerprints and they’re advancing so quickly that if yours looks similar there’s a good chance you’ll be mistaken for one and discounted.
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This is such an interesting lens to think about AI development. We’re ultimately building left-brain super-machines on the current trajectory. How do we balance them with the ‘life’, meaning and fuzziness of the right-brain where outlooks flourish?
It took me 3 months to put 10 years of research on curiosity into a 20min presentation...
...So when @GrahamDuncanNYC challenged me to compress it down to 5min for the @SohnConf yesterday, I obviously went insane.
Here it is.
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My god. The @twilio fraud services are absolutely useless. Such a prime example of a company putting profits over customers.
Anyone got a better alternative?
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So, @Octotel_fibre messed up my migration yesterday and I’m still without internet. 🤬 Almost burnt through the monthly fiber fee in data today. Ouch.
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I had a load of fun chatting with @Bobby_Seq and @renierkriel about PMF and building product in Africa. We cover some of the reasons I joined @letsokhi too.
Give it a watch/listen:
youtube.com/watch?v=TKBaPlfy…
@BankZeroSA can I receive international payments into a business account with you and what is the approval process for it?
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