Software Engineer & Product Builder. I build useful products, help founders reach the right users, and turn ideas into sustainable businesses.
Nigeria 🇳🇬
Joined May 2020
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Introducing Uncle BigBay Product Distribution! 🥳
You've built something useful, now let me help more people discover it.
For months, I've been carrying people's products on my head for free, exploring what they've built, testing features, building practical use cases, and sharing my experiences.
Now, I'm making it a proper service!
When you employ my service, I'll personally explore your product, create useful content around it, share feedback, and help get it in front of more people through my audience and network of websites.
And we've already welcomed 2 paying founders before launch! 💚
If you're building something useful, I'd love to carry your product on my head too! 😂
You'll loveeet!
Let's get started: unclebigbay.com/distribution
Is that not Sabilytics.com 😁, abi I can't see well ni 😂
Been noticing analytics daily for a while now, from the past few week,Singapore always tops about most visitors ro the site per day 👀ki have to look for this Singapore viewers and make them a paid user 😂. All thanks to @Amospikins, product gaining visibility gradually👏
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Here's one lesson I've learned as someone who loves to experiment and ship fast.
Distribution and talking about your product every day are part of building too.
Don't spend all your time building new features when people haven't even discovered or fully explored the ones you've already built.
Your product might not need another feature right now. It might just need more people to know it exists and understand what they can already do with it.
Talk to your users, listen to their feedback, and let that shape what you build next.
Take a break from coding and talk about your product today!
You might not need another job. You might just need to package your existing skills and start charging for them.
Daily ₦2k is ready with @tryratecard 😂
Just got my first payout available from doing something I've been doing for free for years: talking to founders, reviewing products, and sharing practical feedback.
Imagine turning your existing skills into another source of income.
I spoke with a founder yesterday about their product and how they could approach distribution. The conversation went really well, and they ended up subscribing to my full product distribution service too!
I love this thing called the internet! 💚
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Abeg, make una forgive me, I can't share 😂
I built "Buy Me a Malt" so people could appreciate good work, but I clearly underestimated what people consider good work 🤦🏽♂️
I'm just going to mind my business and keep building 🤣
There's no need to put those creators under unwanted attention, buh, I'm still shocked sha.
I just came across the weirdest use case of Buy Me a Malt in an industry I never imagined it would reach, and I genuinely don't know whether to cry or be proud of what I've built 😂
Omo, I wasn't prepared for this one 🤦🏽♂️
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Good old days! 😂💚
I found this old Hashnode Town Hall post with @olanetsoft's name on the list of top writers, and it brought back memories.
Idris was one of those technical writers I genuinely looked up to back then. He was always writing, consistently putting out solid articles, and keeping people like me on our toes.
Reading more about his journey today makes me appreciate that consistency even more.
From earning ₦47,500 during his first internship, sometimes skipping lunch to save transport fare, to discovering that a single technical article could earn him $150, and eventually building a global career in DevRel.
I particularly loved how his writing opened doors for him, including opportunities that came simply because people had seen his work.
There's so much to learn from his journey, especially how he kept building on every experience from Web2 to Web3.
Really good read, broski!
I can see your name there too @DaveyHert 👀
The first pay for a technical article is $150, and he was blown away. He pondered, "Wait, somebody is paying me almost two weeks' worth of my salary for this?"
In this edition of Money Moves, @olanetsoft talks about his beginnings, the unexpected value of technical writing, career pivots, and why earning more money hasn't meant spending more.
blog.useaccrue.com/how-idris…
See full list, your favourite writer might be there:
townhall.hashnode.com/winner…
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If only 10 people are using your product today, please don't make them feel insignificant because you're chasing 10,000 users.
Talk to them, understand why they signed up, and learn what keeps them coming back.
Those 10 people might teach you something your next 1,000 users will benefit from.
Daily ₦2k is ready with @tryratecard 😂
Just got my first payout available from doing something I've been doing for free for years: talking to founders, reviewing products, and sharing practical feedback.
Imagine turning your existing skills into another source of income.
I spoke with a founder yesterday about their product and how they could approach distribution. The conversation went really well, and they ended up subscribing to my full product distribution service too!
I love this thing called the internet! 💚
You don't have to figure out your entire distribution strategy before you start.
Start with what you know, pay attention to the results, and improve as you go.
The important thing is to keep learning from your efforts instead of repeating the same thing without knowing why.
You might not need another job to earn more money. You might just need to identify a skill you already have, package it as a professional service, and start charging for it.
For years, I've been helping founders and business owners review their products, identify areas for improvement, figure out how to reach more customers, and navigate technical and career challenges.
I've spent countless hours doing this for free because I genuinely enjoy it.
But I recently realised that what I've been doing casually is actually a service people are willing to pay for.
So yesterday, I decided to package that experience into paid consultation sessions, set my rates, and put it out there.
And guess what? I've already started getting bookings from founders and business owners!
I didn't need to build another platform for this. I simply used @tryratecard to create my page, list my services, set my prices, and let people book and pay for sessions.
You probably have something you're really good at that people already come to you for help with.
Maybe it's time to stop treating it as just a favour and start thinking about how you can turn it into a professional service.
You don't always need to learn a new skill to start earning more. Sometimes, you just need to recognise the value of the skills you already have 💚
Book a session: tryratecard.com/unclebigbay
A founder actually booked a paid session with me! 💚
I've spent years jumping on calls with founders, reviewing their products, discussing business ideas, and sharing feedback for free.
Now someone is actually paying me to do something I've genuinely enjoyed doing all these years.
It's interesting how a skill you've developed over time can eventually become another source of income.
Looking forward to the conversation and hearing what they're building!
Was able to set this up quickly with @tryratecard 🙌
I just came across the weirdest use case of Buy Me a Malt in an industry I never imagined it would reach, and I genuinely don't know whether to cry or be proud of what I've built 😂
Omo, I wasn't prepared for this one 🤦🏽♂️
To every indie hacker who's been building quietly, launching products, fixing bugs, talking to users, and trying to figure out distribution without a big audience or marketing budget:
I see your effort, and I'm rooting for you. Distribution is the biggest moat right now.
I hope something good comes out of all that work! 💚
There's a special kind of happiness that comes from someone paying for something you built yourself.
Not because of how much they paid, but because someone somewhere found your work valuable enough to spend their money on it.
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Dear builder, someone launched their product yesterday and got 1,000 signups while you've been building for months and you're still trying to get your first 100 users.
Please don't let someone else's progress make you feel like you're failing.
Learn what you can from their journey, but keep working on yours 💚
This 📌📌📌
If you’re building a startup, project, business… whatever. From scratch?
Andy Burnham and Mamdani shouldn’t be posting and giving updates about their projects more than you.
You’re starting from nothing.
Give us a show. On Twitter. On IG. On Tiktok.
Let’s get excited to see you.
And then get tired of seeing you.
Then come to terms with the fact that you’re here to stay.
Then recognise you as a legend in the making.
Your shyness is keeping you mediocre.
Be very public and carry your work on head.
Bye.
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Afolabi is genuinely one of the builders I love on this app!
One thing I really admire about @SokeyeA is how he leverage opportunities, takes feedback, acts on it, and sometimes even takes the suggestions a step further than you imagined, and conversations with him are always a treat.
I so much love what he's building with @salaryindexng too, and it's been interesting watching the product grow in the last 3 months.
Keep building, my bro! I'm rooting for you! 💚
And thanks for using MRR Profile ☺️
See his mrr profile: mrrprofile.com/sokeyea
Here is my mrr profile : mrrprofile.com/sokeyea
All for Salary Index (@salaryindexng) in the last 3 months
This doesn’t include Offline Payments and Invoices 😃
I genuinely want to see @bachs_hq become one of the biggest payment platforms out of Africa! 💙
And I believe we can all play a part in making that happen.
If you've used Bachs, what do you think they should improve, fix, or introduce?
Let's hear your honest feedback. I'll make sure it gets to the team 😁
thanks for making it easy to set this up! 🙌
tryratecard.com/unclebigbay
