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TicketDaddy (AyaHQ x Lisk ‘25) retweeted
30,000+ Africans. 34 Countries. One Mission.
A builder.
A founder.
A community.
Behind every milestone is a real person with a story worth telling.
Since 2022, AyaHQ has:
• Reached 30,000+ young Africans across 34 countries
• Trained 112 fellows in software engineering, product design, and product management
• Incubated 80+ startups
• Deployed $500,000+ in grants and equity
• Built innovation hubs in Accra and Kilifi, where builders can live, work, and grow together.
These aren’t just numbers. They’re people learning, building, launching companies, creating opportunities, and shaping Africa’s future.
Every face is a person.
Explore our SDG Impact Report to see the full impact.
Read the report: ayahq.com/impact?category=SD…
TicketDaddy (AyaHQ x Lisk ‘25) retweeted
Missed my flight for the first time yesterday…sad experience but I survived😄
Happy new week…cheers to not missing opportunities this week🥂
TicketDaddy (AyaHQ x Lisk ‘25) retweeted
🔝 $1,000,000 Accelerator by @alliance
One of the world's leading crypto accelerators.
~ $500K upon admission + $500K follow-on at seed
~ Demo Day in NYC with top VCs
~ Join the founder network of 300+ startups
Apply before July 22 👇
TicketDaddy (AyaHQ x Lisk ‘25) retweeted
Sharing for builders who might need this!
🔝 $1,000,000 Accelerator by @alliance
One of the world's leading crypto accelerators.
~ $500K upon admission + $500K follow-on at seed
~ Demo Day in NYC with top VCs
~ Join the founder network of 300+ startups
Apply before July 22 👇
TicketDaddy (AyaHQ x Lisk ‘25) retweeted
@CodeMensah applied to AyaVersity in 2022.
By 2025, the platform he built @LearnwayApp had 5,000+ users across 6 African countries.
This is the story of what compounds when you stay in the room. 🧵
TicketDaddy (AyaHQ x Lisk ‘25) retweeted
Stablecoin payroll feels great, until your team scales.
→ At ten contractors, reconciliation is an afternoon
→ At a thousand, it's unsustainable
Why?
Because reconciliation is still a manual process.
Our latest article highlights the blockers, and how to fix them ↓
TicketDaddy (AyaHQ x Lisk ‘25) retweeted
The work spans two physical hubs.
Accra and Kilifi. Roadshows across four countries.
Hackathons that seeded a movement (the African OnChain Collective). Pop-Up Cities that turned strangers into collaborators for years after they left.
None of it was inevitable. All of it was built.
TicketDaddy (AyaHQ x Lisk ‘25) retweeted
The AyaVersity training pipeline: 7,000+ applicants across two cohorts.
112 graduates. 40% female average, 54% in Cohort 2.
The Kibera cohort took 12 young Kenyans with zero prior tech knowledge and ended with them shipping a digital voting system on Ethereum.
TicketDaddy (AyaHQ x Lisk ‘25) retweeted
Sharing for builders who might need this!
$100,000 in pre-seed investment. Fully funded. Zero cost to participate.
That is what MEST is offering African founders building AI startups.
7 months of hands-on training in Accra Ghana.
4 months of incubation for top ventures.
Mentorship from practitioners at Google, Meta and OpenAI.
In-person interviews in Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal and Kenya.
Most African AI founders have never heard of this program.
Deadline July 20.
mestaistartupprogram.smapply…
TicketDaddy (AyaHQ x Lisk ‘25) retweeted
The headline numbers are on record:
→ 30,000+ young Africans reached
→ 6,000+ builders engaged through AyaLab
→ 112 fellows graduated from AyaVersity
→ 80+ startups incubated
→ 34 countries represented
→ $70K distributed in prizes
→ $500K+ deployed to portfolio startups
TicketDaddy (AyaHQ x Lisk ‘25) retweeted
How can I loose my drive when this is what pops up on my timeline every single time? 🔥🔥
TicketDaddy (AyaHQ x Lisk ‘25) retweeted
First 5-10 club meeting starting in 3 hours ☕️
have 47/50 starting members picked.
if you don’t ship nightly = kick.
3 spots left if you’re grinding on something and want a place to show up: f.inc/510
@ San Francisco
Introducing Open Campus.
The last room you’ll build in before your first check.
This summer, 200 of the most ambitious founders we could find are building at Founders, Inc.
Next week, we’re opening a new part of our Fort Mason campus to 50 more founders + builders each night.
Daily 5-10pm. 50 spots/night.
Comment what you’re building for an invite to our first session.
TicketDaddy (AyaHQ x Lisk ‘25) retweeted
The Incubation Programme has run 3 cohorts.
610+ applications from 46 countries. 28 startups deployed on the Lisk blockchain mainnet.
Portfolio traction includes @LearnwayApp (5,000+ users in 6 countries)
@Clapmihq (5,200+ users, $17K+ to creators)
@element_pay ($250K+ in projected business volume).
TicketDaddy (AyaHQ x Lisk ‘25) retweeted
In the next 5–10 years, one of the most valuable human skills may not be thinking faster, but feeling deeper.
AI has only begun. Machines will increasingly handle logic, optimization, and computation. Our challenge is to remain fully human: to play, to create, to love, to laugh, to notice beauty, and to experience life beyond the walls of our own minds.
Become so good at something uniquely human that even those who disagree with you cannot ignore the value you create.
That is how we expand humanity’s imaginative possibilities and keep them in the value chain.
If love is among the most consequential principles in God’s architecture, why do humans still find it so easy to hate one another?
Perhaps the systems we inherit; from birth onward; teach us to think, compete, and protect ourselves long before they teach us to feel, connect, and belong.
So take a moment. Feel with your heart. Be human. Smile. Be curious. Create. Love boldly!
The world is beautiful, and your soul was never meant to live only inside your head.
With love ❤️ and gratitude 🙏 🦋🐆🦀🏹🌟
TicketDaddy (AyaHQ x Lisk ‘25) retweeted
If you are stuck on where to start for #BuildQuik, here is the fastest path:
• Next.js → create app, push to GitHub, deploy on QuikDB
• FastAPI → build routes, push, deploy
QuikDB auto detects the stack.
Guide: docs.quikdb.com/guides/ship-…
Stop planning. Start building.
TicketDaddy (AyaHQ x Lisk ‘25) retweeted
Excited to have @gdgoc_unilag onboard for the #BuildQuik Challenge!
More builders. More real apps. More innovation
GDGoC UNILAG is proud to announce its partnership with QuikDB for the BuildQuik challenge.
Participants have 2 weeks to deploy a real app on QuikDB and compete for cash prizes, QuikDB credits, and weekly builder rewards.
Register here: luma.com/cnk0mtop
TicketDaddy (AyaHQ x Lisk ‘25) retweeted
i've said this before but i'll say it again.
my mission and mandate is to get as many African founders funded before the end of November 2026.
for the last two months, i've been working alongside Launch Africa Ventures x Botswana Tech Fund as a preferred ecosystem partner, connecting founders to real capital.
Now I can add two more:
🤝 Hytel partnered to support African female founders building in tech. each selected business receives $5K to $10K in funding plus 400 hours of developer time. 5 to 10 founders will be selected for this first cohort. applications close June 1st. female founders, move now.
📡 Baobab Network in active conversations with Toby Hanington for pipeline and deal flow. more soon.
I am building the most intentional access infra on this continent and i need the right eyes on the right builders.
so,
if you're a founder or builder in tech, AI, or whatever you're creating and you're not in the African Founders Community yet... i genuinely don't know what you're waiting for.
if you're an investor whose interest is making a real difference in Africa by backing the next generation, DM me. we need to talk.
🌍🦄 #AfricanFounders #AFC
TicketDaddy (AyaHQ x Lisk ‘25) retweeted
A thread on connection pooling, because it trips up almost every developer at some point:
Your database has a max connections limit. Your app spawns a new connection per request by default. Under load, you hit the limit and everything hangs.
Fix: use a connection pool (e.g., pgbouncer for Postgres, built-in pool for MongoDB). Set your pool size to roughly 2x your expected concurrent requests. Monitor pool exhaustion in your health check.
This is a 15-minute fix that prevents a class of outages.