LiveClasses
Online learning for Nigerian universities. Grew from MVP to funded startup with an active user base.
LiveClasses was my first founding-engineer run. We built an online learning platform for Nigerian universities from scratch — live sessions, assignments, payments, and admin — and grew it from an MVP into a funded startup.
The product started as a pandemic-era response to universities going remote with no real infrastructure. We shipped the first usable version in weeks, then spent the following months turning it into something a university could actually run a semester on: real attendance tracking, graded assignments, instructor tools, and payment flows that handled the reality of student billing in Nigeria.
As the founding engineer, my role covered the whole stack — frontend, backend, infra, and a lot of the product decisions. We were accepted into top incubators, raised a round, and grew monthly active users by more than 300% in a six-month stretch. Most of what I know about founding-engineer tradeoffs — which ones compound, which ones don't — came out of this project.
Grew MAU 3× in six months; accepted into top incubators and funded; platform ran live semesters at multiple Nigerian universities.