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Takes a payment inside the WhatsApp chat a merchant already sells in.

Year2025

RoleHackathon — DevCareer × Nomba

TypeProduct

StateHackathon

Live atNot public

Built withNode.jsExpressPaystackRedis

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Built in a weekend. We started designing an app and realised the merchants we were describing already had a working storefront: a WhatsApp thread with a customer in it.

So the product became a payment flow inside the conversation. The lesson was that the app was never the product.