Israel Thompson π | Edu-to-Earn
@IsraelDcoder
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π Software Developer & Founder | Building @edutoearnhq β where learning turns into income π‘ | Mission: Empower millions with skills & opportunities π
Benin-City, Nigeria
Joined September 2023
Tech systems donβt understand context. And they donβt care, unless we talk about it.
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Check your auto-renewals. Cancel trials immediately. Donβt assume ββ¦90β means ββ¦90β.
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This is how subscriptions quietly drain people especially in countries like Nigeria.
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β¦26,000 might be small to some people. But it can wreck plans for others.. for real π
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I emailed support. Refund? β βNot eligible." I also begged oo π€£
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I didnβt even use the app after that first payment I made that month.
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Google auto-renewed it for β¦26,000/year.
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I paid β¦90 to sign a document with WPS Office once.
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If youβre coding and things keep breaking, its good. Youβre not failing. Youβre building. Back to work. π»π₯
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This is what building real products looks like. Not tutorials. Not clean YouTube demos or even staring at your screen. Errors. Logs. Warnings. Fixes. Growth.
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At some point, Flask literally said: βCould not build URL for endpoint βuploadsβ.β I stared. Debugged. Realized: Blueprint namespacing. One line fix. π
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What we worked on today π β’ Community system (roles: students, teachers, admins) β’ Real-time chat ( https://t.co/5LvwSxtG0N) β’ Redis for mutes & rate-limiting β’ Database migrations β’ Enterprise dashboard UI β’ Better content categorization
socket.io
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Today I worked on building an enterprise-level e-Library for my church (DLCF). Not a βsmall projectβ. Real features. Real scale. Real problems.
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Today almost humbled me. Flask errors. Migration issues. Blueprint routing chaos. But guess what? I shipped anyway. π’π₯ π§΅π
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I realized something: You donβt always need to build in public from day one. Sometimes you build quietlyβ¦ then tell the story with substance. π
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The dashboard is done. Now Iβm: Testing it Hosting it temporarily Gathering feedback before official deployment Still learning. Still refining.
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Biggest lesson? Building for people you care about hits different. You stop chasing βcool featuresβ and start chasing clarity and usefulness.
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So I built a full e-Library platform: Clean dashboard Structured resources Enterprise-level UI Designed for real users Not a demo. Not a mockup.
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I review apps often. So I asked myself: βIf this were an app, what would I criticize?β Then I flipped it: Why not build the solution instead?
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On campus, learning resources were scattered: PDFs in WhatsApp chats Sermons hard to find No central place to learn That friction bothered me.
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