What M-PESA taught us about API design that Stripe never could.
Feature-phone constraints forced Kenya's most successful API into a shape Silicon Valley still hasn't reproduced — a study in operational pragmatism over architectural elegance.
Our 12-package starter for every new Next.js engagement at Hanova.
The exact dependency list we add to every greenfield project, the rationale behind each choice and the libraries we deliberately keep out of every stack — and why.
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The exact dependency list we add to every greenfield project, the rationale behind each choice and the libraries we deliberately keep out of every stack — and why.
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Why every East African SaaS should ship CMS-first, not CMS-eventually.
We learned this on three consecutive engagements: when an editorial team cannot publish without an engineer, the entire product loses operational momentum. The CMS-first architecture we now adopt by default — the trade-offs, the failure modes and the precise stack choices behind it.