Page looks great overall - clean, simple styling. Love the pallete and shapes - like rolling hills, abstracted.
I would suggest that because most of the links and stuff are placeholders, you could remove almost all of the navigation until those pages are ready so you can optimise the lander for what appears to be a primary goal at this stage: building the email list.
Oh yeah. Sorry about that. Can you use Chrome's translate thingy that would change the whole text automatically ? Or I can totally work out some translation over the week. Let me know
It is not about nationalism. It's a platform that will be accessible to everyone across the world. No discrimination. Btw, "Africa" in not a "nation" but a continent... So my goal is to build a platform that addresses the real needs of the African population. There are more and more developers in Africa.
Also, the question here is not "why I'm doing it", but how can I do it better 🙂 thanks for helping out if you can.
Sorry for the inaccuracies, and I don't mean why build it, I'm asking why are you marketing it in such a way.
The marketing is focused on group identity.
My question here relates to why does one want specifically a git hosting service of that continent? Is it about "buying local"?
Or is it for example about latency/speed, and if so you'r not addressing that in the marketing nor the question of why rebuild it from scratch vs say hosting a gitlab instance?
Or is it about language and such?
Or in other words and more generically, for your potential customers, what makes a "Git in Africa" better than other git?
My marketing is completely based on the African sense of community. These days, developers in Côte d’Ivoire are very proud of what they do and in Nigeria, there’s all kind of new products being launched. I’m betting on the fact that they will prefer to use a product that was built close to them and that listens to them rather than a random generic product made by an American company. Also, as Nimba aims to provide a Tech education to the youth, we’ll basically onboard all of them on the platform.
As I mentioned in another post, I found a way to easily collect emails from devs here in Cote d’Ivoire, so the need/want is validated. Now the goal is simply to make a great product that will optimize customer retention I guess 🙂
What would a developer in Cote d’Ivoire/Nigeria/Africa would want that a developer in another country would not prioritise?
Like what's unique to that group vs just the generic developer group?
Like not saying this doesn't work, a 100% copycat with a localised/niched branding is common to work, and doesn't need to have anything unique.
I'm just wondering with a developer group that I know tries to be as much internationalised/Americanised due to employment and salary gaps for example..
I'm struggling to figure out whether you're genuinely interested in the unique needs/goals/desires of Cote d’Ivoire/Nigerian/African developers, or whether you are questioning if there are unique needs/goals/desires to be known?
It's hard to tell, but it seems like the latter, and either way, your implication that this project is simply a Git clone with localised branding - and nothing more - is highly reductionist.
It's clearly about creating something of utility that is strongly contextual for African development communities with more localised concerns - and that the Git platform is intended as a vehicle to serve them - whatever those concerns might actually be.
Commitment to addressing an underserved context is a differentiating factor in and of itself. It is not somehow negated due to that context being regional economies and shared identity. The differentiation of the platform will become more apparent as it matures to accommodate those needs more acutely - as a direct result of fostering and nurturing the embedded communities.
Indie Hackers itself is an example of this. The same ends could be achieved via a collection of subreddits, but there is clearly inherent, differentiating value in a focused attention on context for an intended community.
Asking both as a developer and originally as a non major country entrepreneur...
As a developer I know there is a big effort for international standardisation, a reason for example it's not common to write code, name things or write comments in non American/UK English (due some exists)
About location I know many non primary location would stracture as much as possible as a main location like establishing a company, naming HQ, getting sales/biz Dev teams and more..
Also employees doing the same work from home in different countries may be paid dramatically different. So as far as I know most developers try not to adopt anything that's visually distinguishing themselves locally vs globally unless they work for Gov. Mil. and such...
So I'm kinda curious why you chose this and what I could learn from that, maybe it's just personal blindness..
Also used multiple source control systems and vendor..
Great concept with big potential!
Page looks great overall - clean, simple styling. Love the pallete and shapes - like rolling hills, abstracted.
I would suggest that because most of the links and stuff are placeholders, you could remove almost all of the navigation until those pages are ready so you can optimise the lander for what appears to be a primary goal at this stage: building the email list.
Spent 5 mins in Photoshop to show you what I mean:
https://pasteboard.co/JAtMewL.png
Oh great ! Thanks for the cheering up ! But I couldn't see the image you linked 🤔 It's weird
Oh dear, try this? :)
Alright ! Thanks 🙏🏽
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It's all in french. Hard to give you feedback like that.
Oh yeah. Sorry about that. Can you use Chrome's translate thingy that would change the whole text automatically ? Or I can totally work out some translation over the week. Let me know
Why play nationalism with a git hosting service?
It is not about nationalism. It's a platform that will be accessible to everyone across the world. No discrimination. Btw, "Africa" in not a "nation" but a continent... So my goal is to build a platform that addresses the real needs of the African population. There are more and more developers in Africa.
Also, the question here is not "why I'm doing it", but how can I do it better 🙂 thanks for helping out if you can.
Sorry for the inaccuracies, and I don't mean why build it, I'm asking why are you marketing it in such a way.
The marketing is focused on group identity.
My question here relates to why does one want specifically a git hosting service of that continent? Is it about "buying local"?
Or is it for example about latency/speed, and if so you'r not addressing that in the marketing nor the question of why rebuild it from scratch vs say hosting a gitlab instance?
Or is it about language and such?
Or in other words and more generically, for your potential customers, what makes a "Git in Africa" better than other git?
My marketing is completely based on the African sense of community. These days, developers in Côte d’Ivoire are very proud of what they do and in Nigeria, there’s all kind of new products being launched. I’m betting on the fact that they will prefer to use a product that was built close to them and that listens to them rather than a random generic product made by an American company. Also, as Nimba aims to provide a Tech education to the youth, we’ll basically onboard all of them on the platform.
As I mentioned in another post, I found a way to easily collect emails from devs here in Cote d’Ivoire, so the need/want is validated. Now the goal is simply to make a great product that will optimize customer retention I guess 🙂
What would a developer in Cote d’Ivoire/Nigeria/Africa would want that a developer in another country would not prioritise?
Like what's unique to that group vs just the generic developer group?
Like not saying this doesn't work, a 100% copycat with a localised/niched branding is common to work, and doesn't need to have anything unique.
I'm just wondering with a developer group that I know tries to be as much internationalised/Americanised due to employment and salary gaps for example..
I'm struggling to figure out whether you're genuinely interested in the unique needs/goals/desires of Cote d’Ivoire/Nigerian/African developers, or whether you are questioning if there are unique needs/goals/desires to be known?
It's hard to tell, but it seems like the latter, and either way, your implication that this project is simply a Git clone with localised branding - and nothing more - is highly reductionist.
It's clearly about creating something of utility that is strongly contextual for African development communities with more localised concerns - and that the Git platform is intended as a vehicle to serve them - whatever those concerns might actually be.
Commitment to addressing an underserved context is a differentiating factor in and of itself. It is not somehow negated due to that context being regional economies and shared identity. The differentiation of the platform will become more apparent as it matures to accommodate those needs more acutely - as a direct result of fostering and nurturing the embedded communities.
Indie Hackers itself is an example of this. The same ends could be achieved via a collection of subreddits, but there is clearly inherent, differentiating value in a focused attention on context for an intended community.
tl;dr it's about people, not features.
Asking both as a developer and originally as a non major country entrepreneur...
As a developer I know there is a big effort for international standardisation, a reason for example it's not common to write code, name things or write comments in non American/UK English (due some exists)
About location I know many non primary location would stracture as much as possible as a main location like establishing a company, naming HQ, getting sales/biz Dev teams and more..
Also employees doing the same work from home in different countries may be paid dramatically different. So as far as I know most developers try not to adopt anything that's visually distinguishing themselves locally vs globally unless they work for Gov. Mil. and such...
So I'm kinda curious why you chose this and what I could learn from that, maybe it's just personal blindness..
Also used multiple source control systems and vendor..