It has received both positive feedback and constructive criticisms.
There's a difference between winning technology awards & competitions versus winning in the marketplace. — http://t.co/bEre6rcMqz
— Michael Buen (@iEnableMuch) April 7, 2014
Good read -- The agony of an African programmer http://t.co/8vChkIWsGD by @raindolf
— David Kobia (@dkobia) April 7, 2014
Probably the best article of this kind that I've read in a while - Agony of an African Programmer http://t.co/zp71fcfDla by @raindolf.
— Lungi (@hellolungi) April 7, 2014
"We need to visualize technology as a process and something we will build ourselves here in Africa." @raindolf http://t.co/menbXiJ9DH
— Chris Ford (@ctford) April 5, 2014
Great piece by @raindolf on the difficulties of working as a programmer/dev in Africa http://t.co/fEP0mMjgMN
— Jack Riley (@_JackRiley) April 6, 2014
Agony of an African programmer http://t.co/D4u3mM6kln (http://t.co/t6VgP8tn7x)
— Hacker News 20 (@newsyc20) April 7, 2014
@raindolf has been featured on @HackerNews YAY!!! Way to go ma guy. Nice writeup #morevim #Ghana
— Robert Lamptey (@rlamptey) April 7, 2014
The agony of being an independent mobile/web/software developer in Africa, as detailed by @Raindolf Owusu: http://t.co/5JxPDXOW1g
— Mobile Web Africa (@mwebafrica) April 9, 2014
Plus many more tweets here.
I wrote this article in 2012 and would have loved to make so many changes to it, since I have learnt a lot through my entrepreneurial journey. The bottom line is as African coders we are faced with so many challenges from the onset but we must hunker down and build something awesome that will make sense to the users and solve key problems.
