You must have installed the Stream Firestore to Big Query Extension and maybe even read some of the docs but you still can’t quite figure out how to get everything to work. This guide will help you with that. Have data in Firebase Firestore and need to bring them into…

If you’re running a Business in Africa, you know that every cent counts. While I love Twilio, and I’m always impressed by their delivery rates, the truth is that at $0.1982 per SMS, it’s expensive to use for early-stage startups whose revenues aren’t based in USD. I’m a big fan…

Firebase is a powerful backend service provided by Google that speeds up Web Development by providing a BaaS (Backend-as-a-service) infrastructure. Firebase allows Engineering teams to quickly build out and prototype applications without the need to worry about common backend services like authentication, authorization, database provision, task schedulers (thank you cloud…

You have created a Google Form for your Organisation. This form requires users to upload a file or image. The rest of your team is collaborating with you and viewing the form submissions in the Spreadsheet generated from the Google Form. Then, you get a shock. …

What is Mobile Money? For the uninitiated, Agency Banking/Mobile Money has blown up across Africa and Asia in the last decade. Pioneered by telecom service providers like Vodafone and Safaricom with mPesa in Kenya in 2007, the global mobile money market now processes over $490bn in transactions yearly. Mobile Money or Agency Banking is…

From driving over 70km on a Saturday morning to Shapati, a town in the outskirts of Lagos, Nigeria where the nearest bank might be 10–20km away from you, to creating a WhatsApp group and sending out Google Forms to our first 10 Mobile Money Agents residing in Shapati, we’ve grown…

Starting a company is hard. Figuring out how to set up and configure E-mails for your organisation shouldn’t make your life any harder. In this tutorial, I’ll explain how I walked through solving two issues we recently had at Moni — redirecting E-mails sent to old staff to new staff…

Nothing on this trip went as planned and that was a good thing! What struck me the most about my time in Benin Republic is how similar yet how different they are to us (Nigerians). …

This article was originally published on the Aeeiee Blog. — January 2021 Update: This article was originally written in 2020. It’s now 2021 and thankfully, many more companies are learning to cope better with COVID. Let’s hope that this year brings in an effective Vaccine and things go back to some sort of normalcy. 2020 has been a year! There…