ASO Ltd.
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Notes on payments, logistics, AI, and IT infrastructure for businesses in Cameroon and Central Africa.
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· 6 min read
Sort your AI feature list before anyone quotes a launch date
AI features split into two kinds: the ones a pretrained model can attempt from the start, and the ones that need a history of your own business. Quoting both on one timeline is how a launch date slips. Here is how we sort them, and what to record now.
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· 6 min read
Every SMS code costs money. Stop strangers from spending it
If your app signs people in with a code by SMS, anyone who can reach the send button can make you pay for text messages. These are the limits we now build into every application, and what our own review caught when we did.
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· 5 min read
A backup nobody has restored is an assumption
We restored our own internal knowledge base onto a different computer, from an encrypted backup, using credentials kept off that machine. It worked. The alerting we had just built did not.
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· 7 min read
What a delivery address needs in Douala
In six screenshots of a ride hailing app in Douala, most suggestions were landmarks rather than streets. Here is how that changed the way we store a delivery destination.
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· 3 min read
Why Mobile Money reconciliation eats your week
Most Cameroonian businesses accept MTN MoMo and Orange Money but reconcile both by hand. Here is what that costs, and what fixing it actually involves.
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