Complete the first app draft
- Write the whole app’s first draft.
- Write privacy policies, cookie policies and terms of service in parallel.
- Aim to include all Coursicle features that are possible; include UniMaze audio/video call joining.
Local booklet · private company plans
UniMata / company direction / edition 01
A clear plan.
A bigger future.
Build the app. Prove it with students.
Turn early traction into a company that can scale.
The road ahead
Daily spacing · confirmed calendar yearsActions needed
Scheduled work · application dates are submission targets, not approvals. Pre-pilot gates must finish before the Nov 29 release. Scroll sideways for later dates →
NOVEMBER 2026Nov 1 → Nov 30
DECEMBER 2026Dec 1 → Dec 31
JANUARY 2027Jan 1 → Jan 31
Milestones expected
Target results · success measured Dec 12–31; expected student tests Dec 13–19. Late-January external outcomes remain aspirations. Scroll sideways for later dates →
NOVEMBER 2026Nov 1 → Nov 30
DECEMBER 2026Dec 1 → Dec 31
JANUARY 2027Jan 1 → Jan 31
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Book: start writing Dec 28 → publish by Jan 10. Next leadership phase: possible marketing-oriented CEO from February 2027.
200Students in the benchmark cohort
10,000Registered users targeted by end of December
$1MTotal pre-seed funding goal
18 monthsIntended worker-pay runway
Leadership, confirmed. Your wife is the planned CEO and continues after your US return. You are never the CEO. All milestones below remain planned until actual delivery is evidenced.
Reading guide: the timeline is the summary. The chapters below hold the full plan. Source chips link to the original wording; the final appendix preserves all 40 source paragraphs, including unresolved wording and conflicting proposals.
01
Dated workstreams
The execution plan
Twenty-five coordinated work packages. Explicit owners are retained; unassigned owners and proposed evidence gates are labelled.
Build + policies→Security + 200 students→Launch→Traction + funding
Apply for DUNS
- Submit the DUNS application on Nov 13. Application and approval are separate milestones.
Open banking & establish leadership
- Bank and dollar account creation by Oluwatosin remain due Nov 15.
- Wife is the CEO. She starts CEO/company paperwork Nov 15 and completes all paperwork by Nov 22, including employment letters and Bro. James’s letter.
- The owner is never the CEO.
Document the 97% ownership intention
- Work with Barrister Isreal and the owner’s wife to establish the owner’s 97% shareholding before fundraising.
- On a simplified cap-conversion basis, 5% financing dilution takes 97% to 92.15%, before other equity changes or later financing.
Build mentor relationships
- Connect with Shola, described in the notes as Paystack founder/CEO, and other accessible mentors.
- Relationship target only; no meeting or engagement is confirmed.
Apply to the app stores ASAP
- Apply for the app to be on “playstores” on Nov 18, as soon as possible. Store acceptance is an external dependency; no approval is claimed.
Prepare website mockup & Paystack application
- Write the website mockup. Apply for Paystack from Nov 23 once privacy policies are ready.
- Nov 23–27 is the hoped-for approval window; approval is an external dependency.
- On the same day as the Paystack application (currently planned from Nov 23), apply to “Nigeria Data Protection rights,” the owner’s wording for a Nigerian government agency protecting users’ data.
Open the educators’ upload-only portal
- One week before the Nov 29 pilot gives a derived Nov 22 target.
- Give Bro. Victor and other educationists a free video-upload portal; they must not see the app yet.
- Handle legal work for emails and email notifications, including the TikTok-like notification idea.
Hire marketer & prepare the campaign
- Hire Royal Prince from Nov 22; allow the stated two-week preparation window through Dec 6.
- Confirmed budget: ₦1 million.
- Goal: 10,000 registered Unilorin/JAMB or WAEC users by the end of December.
- Let Royal Prince develop and present his own plan before showing the owner’s advertisement ideas.
Harden the app & recruit the test cohort
- Write the remaining legal parts, privacy and terms notices, with refund policies first.
- Run advanced security checks, including the requested aggressive GPT 6 ASTRA checks; continue bug fixes.
- Secure 200 students to begin testing from Nov 29.
- Proposed release evidence: record findings, fixes, retests and the final legal review.
Complete the pre-pilot release gate
- Aggressively test suspected account-takeover flows: require a new password or the user’s two-factor authentication code as appropriate. These are tests to perform, not completed security evidence.
- Add rate-this-app, write-a-review, and feedback/comments about whether the app has been bad or helpful.
- Add study and message push notifications, and email notifications.
- Upload a few common past questions for everyone free: GNS111, GNS 211 and GNS 311.
- Restrict videos to 30 seconds before the 200-user release.
Verify moderation and support community moderators
- Confirm the AI moderation integration is working; source wording: “OpenAPI Moderiation AI.” Preserve the owner’s goal to avoid a “YikYak crash”; no historical cause is asserted here.
- Make SU leaders app moderators in Campus Mataz and give them gifts as encouragement.
Ship result sharing and the awards loop
- In the mock-exams tab, enable share-your-result before even the 200-user release.
- Confirmed ranking: exam scores select the top 20; likes and reposts rank those 20; the top 3 receive awards.
- People follow a result link to like and repost; app-originated reposts and likes support the entrant.
- Prizes can be data/airtime giveaways. Give ambassadors reshare codes to track their progress.
Complete competitor analysis
- Analyze Schooly, Fizz, Sidechat and Coursicle before the 200-user release. This is scheduled research, not analysis completed in this booklet.
Benchmark with 200 students
- Benchmark with 200 students and fix performance issues.
- Observe organic spread and revenue rate for the pre-seed pitch.
- Expected student test dates: Dec 13–19. Keep the Nov 29–Dec 5 benchmark followed by the Dec 6–12 launch week.
- During pilot tests, serve more notifications to encourage users to return and use more features.
Upgrade email auth and add a status page
- Move from Resend as soon as possible to better email authentication; the replacement provider is not chosen by this plan.
- After the 200-user launch, build a service-status page covering outages, maintenance and incident updates.
Launch around student tests
- Release Dec 6–12, in the week before the expected Dec 13–19 student tests.
- Measure the launch-success target from Dec 12 through Dec 31: 2,000 users with 80% daily visits on the app.
- If successful, give Bro. James the owner’s laptop.
Stabilize & build social features first
- Dec 6–31: fix launch bugs and work on Chat, Campus Mataz, 24-hour status posting and Trending.
- Marketplace (business traction) follows Campus Mataz, 24-hour status and Trending. This confirmed order supersedes the earlier December marketplace commitment; no replacement marketplace deadline was supplied.
Ask Passion & other funders for pre-seed
- First obtain the 200-user cohort evidence: organic spread, revenue rate and observed usage.
- Pitch Passion and other funders by Dec 20. Dollar-base example: $75,000 = ₦112.5 million at the planning rate.
- The original ₦100 million starting amount remains a separate reference: approximately $66,666.67 at ₦1,500/$1.
- Pursue pre-seed aggressively while in Nigeria for Nigeria/Africa expansion.
Write and publish the academic book
- Start writing on Dec 28; publish by Jan 10.
- Treat both writing and publication as major overview items, alongside app/company work.
Read the technical preparation material
- Before YC, read OneDrive/UniMata/1.Technical Personal Tutorials and the systems book from ByteByteGo.
- This records reading to do; those materials were not opened or read during this website update.
Apply for YC Spring 2027
- Apply for YC Spring 2027 by Jan 4; this replaces the earlier approximate Dec 31 application target.
- Interview must occur only after returning to the US on Jan 21.
- Jan 4 is the owner’s submission target; YC’s official deadline and interview scheduling are external dependencies.
Build LMS & Labflow online lab notebook
- January: engineer builds LMS and Labflow, the online lab notebook for users.
- Labflow and Labnote book refer to the same product. Prepare automatic integration of LMS and Labflow with UniMata.
Return to the US
- Return to the US on Jan 21. Wife continues as CEO; the owner is never the CEO.
- A marketing-oriented replacement CEO may be considered from February 2027.
YC result & immigration aspiration
- The source anticipates YC results/success and switching from F1 to O1-A.
- These are desired outcomes, not assured dates, approvals or immigration guidance.
- If YC does not come through, consider the conditional COO arrangement described in the people plan.
No matching work packages. Try a person, date or feature, or clear your search.
Suggested launch gate — added arrangement, not a claim of completion: review legal notices, resolve security findings, retest fixed bugs, and review benchmark evidence before launch. Expected student tests: Dec 13–19. Planned launch: Dec 6–12; measure success Dec 12–31.
02
Build sequence
From launch to a learning ecosystem
Confirmed product order is applied; earlier wording remains in Original notes for traceability.
Launch foundation
- First whole-app draft aims for all Coursicle features that are possible.
- UniMaze audio and video call joining.
- Privacy, cookie and terms documents alongside development; refund policy and legal notices completed in the hardening window.
- 200-student performance benchmark and ongoing security/bug fixes.
Social + marketplace
- Dec 6–31: bug fixes, Chat, Campus Mataz, 24-hour status and Trending.
- Confirmed order: Campus Mataz, 24-hour status and Trending first; then marketplace (business traction).
- More servers and databases support feature expansion. The earlier December marketplace commitment is superseded by this sequence.
Learning products
- January: engineer builds LMS and Labflow, the online lab notebook, preparing app integration.
- Also build Labflow and connect both learning products to the app automatically.
- Confirmed: Labflow and the online lab notebook are the same product.
Audience + public groups
- Develop WAEC support and market aggressively toward WAEC students.
- Enable public group creation for organizations like EducationUSA, NANS and NSBS Nigeria.
- Rollout dates for these additions are not specified.
PRE-PILOT GATEN04
Before the 200-user release
- Test forced password reset / 2FA step-up during suspected account takeover.
- Add app ratings, review requests and helpful/bad feedback with comments.
- Add push notifications for studying and messages, plus email notifications and their legal work.
- Free common past questions: GNS111, GNS 211 and GNS 311. Restrict videos to 30 seconds.
BEFORE / AFTER PILOTN04
Portal, moderation and operations
- By derived Nov 22: free upload-only video portal for Bro. Victor and other educationists, without access to the app.
- Verify the moderation AI integration (“OpenAPI Moderiation AI” in source); SU leaders moderate Campus Mataz with gifts as encouragement.
- After the 200-user release: replace Resend for email authentication ASAP and build an outage/maintenance/incident status page.
03
S17 S18 S19Capital & company structure
Fund the next stage with proof
Keep the financing ambition, the evidence gate, and the use of funds visible together.
Traction before the raise. Let 200 users use the app, then observe organic referrals/spread and revenue rate. Use that evidence to support a higher SAFE cap because the investor takes less risk. The Dec 20 outreach target depends on having that evidence. S09 S16
People to pitch
- Passion is the named first prospect. Dollar-base example: $75,000 = ₦112.5 million. The original ₦100 million starting amount is approximately $66,666.67 at the planning rate.
- Ask Passion and other funders by Dec 20. Pursue pre-seed aggressively while in Nigeria to support Nigeria-wide and Africa-wide growth.
Capital deployment
- Pay workers for 18 months.
- Recruit a very experienced technical person with connections to several centres.
- Acquire data centres and fund servers, databases and backend services. Upgrade infrastructure before aggressive marketing.
- Hire lawyers and country employees for expansion across Africa.
Leadership + outstanding commitments
- Wife is the initial CEO. A new marketing-oriented CEO, described as “like Steve Jobs,” may replace her from February 2027.
- Give Bro. James a programmer bonus and pay previous bills.
- Provide Bro. James a working Mac, paid for by the company.
- Separate earlier reward: give Bro. James the owner’s laptop if launch is successful — target: 2,000 users with 80% daily visits, measured Dec 12–31.
ASPIRATIONS / SOURCE ASSUMPTIONSS21
Market ambitions in the notes
- Africa ambition: 1 billion users. Nigeria ambition: up to 5 million active users with extremely high retention.
- Source assumptions: 3 million tertiary institution students; 2.24 million students write JAMB yearly (owner-confirmed unit); 1 million admitted yearly.
- The owner confirmed 2.24 million students. These market figures and retention expectations are supplied assumptions, not independently verified market evidence.
Confirmed funding figures
Dollar estimates are the base. Owner’s fixed planning rate: ₦1,500 = $1; this is not a live exchange-rate quote.
| Item | USD | NGN at planning rate |
|---|---|---|
| Raise goal | $1,000,000 | ₦1,500,000,000 |
| Post-money SAFE cap | $20,000,000 | ₦30,000,000,000 |
| Dollar-base example · 0.375% at cap | $75,000 | ₦112,500,000 |
| Original naira example · about 0.333333% at cap | ≈ $66,666.67 | ₦100,000,000 |
CONFIRMED TERMS + SCENARIOC03
Your $1M / $20M plan
- $1,000,000 ÷ $20,000,000 = 5% on a cap-conversion basis. The $20 million cap is post-money.
- A 97% pre-fundraising stake becomes 92.15% under only this 5% dilution; the remaining prior shareholders hold 2.85%. This is an illustrative scenario.
- A cap is not a guaranteed 5% ceiling: a lower conversion valuation may produce more ownership; later priced-round money and option-pool increases can dilute holders.
Post-money vs pre-money SAFE. Post-money includes SAFE financing in the ownership calculation; pre-money starts before it, so other SAFEs and pool terms affect the percentage. YC’s standard has been post-money since 2018. YC explanation · SAFE user guide. Education only; the signed terms determine conversion.
ADDITIONAL FUNDING INTENTIONSY01
Additional pre-seed uses — YC preparation
- Move to better servers and databases; retain key staff.
- Hire security staff and experienced technical people.
- Gradually build our own databases and servers.
- Expand into more countries. These additions complement all the funding uses above.
04
People & responsibilities
Build a team around the work
Leadership, hiring conditions and rewards are preserved as separate decisions.
CEO & company administration
- Owner’s wife serves as CEO from the Nov 15 setup and continues after Jan 21. The owner is never the CEO.
- She starts CEO/company paperwork Nov 15 and completes all paperwork by Nov 22, including employment letters and Bro. James’s letter.
- Oluwatosin handles bank and dollar-account creation. Barrister Isreal and the wife handle the owner’s 97% shareholding before fundraising.
- A marketing-oriented replacement CEO may be considered from February 2027.
Engineering & training
- James owns the first app draft and parallel policy-writing plan.
- Software engineer handles December fixes and social features; marketplace follows Campus Mataz/status/Trending. January brings LMS and Labflow. Do not assume this unnamed role is a separate confirmed hire.
- Bro. James trains Noah or an external employee.
External candidate hiring gate
- Test idea suggestions through a real exam-style assessment.
- Test fast learning ability. Source requirement: candidate must be a first-class student.
- Train the candidate on a mock app before giving the employment letter.
- Obtain three references. No hiring acceptance rubric or completed checks are supplied.
CONTINGENT · NO HIRE CONFIRMEDS23
YC fallback: conditional COO
- If YC does not come through, consider a COO.
- Proposed agreement: if the COO performs well, he closes down his company for UniMata and receives equity here.
- Owner decision: settle fallback COO employment conditions later; no terms or equity amount are committed now.
05
Distribution & future growth
Reach students. Keep them connected.
A separate space for channel ideas, incentives, audience access and expansion. Undated ideas have no invented deadlines.
Internal strategy boundary: Royal Prince must first prepare and present his own marketing plan. Do not share the owner’s ideas with him beforehand. This booklet contains those ideas and is intended for the owner’s private local use. S30
CHANNELS 01–03S29
On-campus visibility
- Billboard in every school.
- Influencers in every school.
- Video and picture advertisements on other platforms.
Creators & referral loops
- Post YouTube videos, run YouTube adverts and pay YouTube creators.
- Advertise referrals in exchange for coins.
- Keep referral/sign-in/download flow easy and show all app features.
- Sharing a subscription with 10 friends refers to UniMata’s Tutorials tab and is also an advertisement mechanism.
ACQUISITION INCENTIVES29
Food or coins — same value
- Use food to encourage account creation, or offer coins.
- If a person collects food, they receive no coins. Food and coin offers must have exactly the same value.
- Eligibility, reward value and anti-abuse rules still need definition before execution.
Royal Prince’s launch brief
- Start Nov 22. Prepare through Dec 6 for the major campaign.
- Confirmed budget: ₦1 million.
- Target: 10,000 registered Unilorin/JAMB or WAEC users by December’s end.
- Get the marketer’s independent plan first; then compare with the owner’s channel ideas.
Distribution & access policies to develop
| Audience | Source plan | Timing / open point |
|---|---|---|
| Secondary schools | LMS and Labflow (online lab notebook) are free for SS3 ONLY. | Both learning products are covered. |
| Universities | Universities pay for LMS and Labflow (online lab notebook). | University-paid learning products. |
| NYSC | Continue app access for one year after call-up upload. | Year starts on call-up upload; uploads are manually verified for now. |
| Public organizations | EducationUSA, NANS and NSBS Nigeria can create on the public group feature. | Use the public organization group creation rules already in UniMata. |
| WAEC students | Develop support, then market aggressively. | Feature readiness comes before the push; date unspecified. |
Build LMS + Labflow→Connect to UniMata automatically→Expand school access
S31 S32 · Broader sequence: prove use → raise capital → upgrade servers/databases → aggressive marketing → run ads later. Some launch marketing is already planned in November–December; reconcile the scale and spend of each phase. S07 S39 S40
Mock-exam result sharing & top-three awards
- Ready before the 200-user release. Exam scores first select 20 students; likes and reposts then rank that shortlist to select 3 award recipients.
- Students share result links; people like/repost to support them. Track reposts originating from their app.
- Awards can be data or airtime. Ambassadors have reshare codes for progress tracking.
MARKETING OPTIONN04
Alternative referral campaign
- Consider rewarding the highest 20 resharers/referrers with 10k each: 20 × 10k = 200k total in the stated units.
- This is an alternative to the coins-for-10-referrals approach, proposed as potentially cheaper. It is separate from the mock-exam top-three awards.
- During the pilot, serve more notifications to encourage app and feature use.
06
YC possible questions
Prepare for the conversation
Nine questions to rehearse: resilience, scaling, code ownership, immigration, company direction, desktop apps use of funds and spending to date.
Interview preparation, not a readiness certificate. All nine supplied questions are here. Proposed answers remain attributed to you; unanswered items are marked for preparation. Evidence prompts are added planning suggestions.
Answer to prepareY01
01. Database crash readiness
- Are you ready for a database crash?
- Suggested evidence to gather: backup and restore drill results, recovery steps and ownership. No readiness result is claimed.
Answer to prepareY01
02. Scale to millions
- How will you scale the app to millions of users without a database or server crash?
- Suggested evidence to gather: load-test results, bottlenecks, capacity limits, monitoring and a scaling plan. These are preparation prompts, not implemented capabilities.
Your proposed answer — verify before usingY01
03. Read and verify AI-written code
- Can you read your AI-written code, including the Paystack and privacy-related code?
- We’ve devoted time to read all of it, verify all of it, and correct any bugs.
- This is the owner’s proposed interview answer, not a verified audit finding. Prepare code-review records, tests and bug-fix evidence before presenting it as completed work.
Answer to prepareY01
04. F1 visa and involvement
- How will you handle your F1 visa alongside involvement in the company?
- The owner is never the CEO; his wife is the planned CEO.
- Prepare an answer based on qualified immigration advice and the actual permitted role and activities. CEO title alone does not establish immigration compliance; no legal conclusion is recorded here.
Answer to prepareY01
05. AI API failures
- Are you ready for AI API failures?
- Suggested evidence to gather: outage simulations, user-facing recovery messages, fallback behavior, retry limits and monitoring. No tested resilience is claimed.
Answer to prepareY01
06. Company direction: up to ten years
- What are the next plans for the company? Do you currently have a plan covering up to ten years?
- The existing roadmap covers launch, social/marketplace development, LMS/Labflow and longer-term expansion ambitions.
- A detailed ten-year plan has not been supplied. Prepare one; do not describe the current booklet as a completed ten-year roadmap.
Your proposed approachY01
07. Laptop apps: Mac, Windows and Linux
- Will you build laptop apps for Mac, Windows and Linux, and how easy will it be?
- Your draft answer: easy, because we would use a cross-platform approach, for example Electron.
- Preserve this as a proposed approach. Desktop feasibility, reuse, packaging, security, updates and platform testing have not been evaluated in this planning task.
Your funding intentionsY01
08. What the money will fund
- What would you use the money to do?
- Move to better servers and databases; retain key staff; hire security staff and experienced technical people.
- Gradually build our own databases and servers, and expand into more countries.
- Also retain the existing funding uses: 18 months of worker pay, a connected technical hire, data centres/backend services, lawyers/country employees, a marketing-oriented CEO, previous bills, Bro. James’s bonus and a company-funded working Mac.
Answer to prepareN06
09. Spending to date
- How much have you spent so far, and what did you spend it on?
- Prepare the actual total spent to date and an itemized breakdown of amounts and what each amount paid for.
- Keep the currency and reporting date clear, with supporting invoices or receipts where available. No spending amounts have been supplied or invented here.
Review the full pre-seed uses → · Read the original YC notes →
TECHNICAL PREPARATIONN04
Before the YC application
- Read OneDrive/UniMata/1.Technical Personal Tutorials and the systems book from ByteByteGo before applying by Jan 4.
- Reading is a scheduled preparation action; the materials were not accessed during this website update.
07
Preservation & traceability
Every original detail, kept.
The organized chapters are a reading layer. This appendix is the complete supplied message, in order, including the initial booklet brief.
Follow-up clarification (Nov 13, 2026): Confirmed by the owner: “and send me out” means the owner is never the CEO. The owner’s wife is the planned CEO. Dates confirmed: November–December 2026 and January 2027. Wife starts CEO/company paperwork on Nov 15 and is to complete all paperwork. Royal Prince’s budget is ₦1 million. December target: 10,000 registered users. Launch success target: 2,000 users with 80% daily visits, measured Dec 12–31. The JAMB figure means 2.24 million students yearly. Additional owner answers: CEO paperwork due Nov 22; 97% ownership before fundraising; marketing-oriented CEO possible from February 2027. Launch success measured Dec 12–31; expected tests Dec 13–19. Marketplace follows Campus Mataz, 24-hour status and Trending. Labflow is the online lab notebook. Aim for all possible Coursicle features. Planning FX: ₦1,500/$1; $20M post-money SAFE cap. Universities pay for LMS/Labflow; both free for SS3. Ten-friend subscription refers to Tutorials. NYSC year starts at call-up upload, manually verified. Public group creation follows existing UniMata rules. YC apply by Jan 4. COO conditions deferred.
Name of this project is "NockBlue Plans". It is for UniMata app.
You will create a booklet (but hosted locally) like a html file for me to scroll through and see the plans for the company.
I need a summary always at the beigning like a timeline (line drawn horizontally, and vertical lines up and down to show expected major milestones).
there could be other spaces for plans, like future growth, advertisement plans etc. (some have timelines, some are just lists) etc. Just arrange it in the best way.
if I confuse you at all, just let me know.
Then I need an advanced arrangement of all these tasks, with everything I've written here underneath there. No details must be lost.
Nov 15 - Bank must be created and dollar account too (by Oluwatosin). Set up my wife as CEO too here for now. She should handle all employment letters, and give one to Bro. james, and send me out as Nov 13 to Nov 24 - finish writing first draft of the whole app; and writing privacy policies, cookies and terms of service at the same time. (James). (Add coursicle feautures too, and UniMaze joining audio and video calls.). Nov 20 - Nov 23 - Write Mockup of the website and apply for paystack from Nov 23 (once the privacy policies.. Approval comes from Nov 23 to Nov 27. Nov 25 to Nov 28 - Write more legal parts of the app, privacy and terms of service notices, the refund policies first . etc.; and do advanced security checks on the app. And keep fixing bugs on the app. Secure 200 students for test of the app from Nov 29. Hire Royal Prince from Nov 22. So he has Nov 22 - Dec 6 (2 weeks) to prepare massive invasion. Fund for him is 1M, and goal is 10,000 Unilorin/JAMB or WAEC users by the end of December. Nov 29 to Dec 5 - Benchmark with 200 students and fix performance issues. Dec 6 to Dec 12 - Release the app as they do test or prepare for test.
From Nov 15 till Dec 31 - Connect with Paystack founder/CEO (Shola) and any other accessible mentor.
By Dec 20- Ask Passion and other funders for pre-seed funding.
Between Dec 31st.. Apply for Y Combinator Spring 2027 ( The interview must come only after you return to the US).
Nov 15 - Dec 1: With barrister isreal, Tell my wife to make my shares 97 percent.
Form Dec 6 of launching till Dec 31: software engineer will fix bugs, write the Chat and status aspect of the app; write the marketplace feature of the app.
Then In Jan: Software enginerr will write LMS, and Labnote book for users. and get ready to connect it to the app.
Jan 21 - Return to the US, and my wife continues as CEO.
Jan ending- Y combinator results and sucess, and I switch from F1 to O1-A visa.
Pre seed comes after 200 users have used our app and we see how well they spread it by themselves and our revenue rate etc. Then we use that to do our pre-seed so that we can push the SAFE cap very high since they are taking less risk.
*Total Pre-seed funding goal*: $1 million dollars. Ie 1.5 billion naira.
SAFE Cap: $20 million dollars.
We are selling max 5% of our shares with this...
*100 million naira is 75k dollars. Ie 0.375 percent.*
*Aim*: * enough to pay workers for 18 months. * enought to acquire a very experienced tech person (with connections) to help us connect with several centres. * enough to acquire data centres and pay for servers and backend services. * enough to employ lawyers and other country employees so as to spread at least across Africa... Ie 1 billion users... Nigeria has a total of 3 million tert institution students.... 2.24 write JAMB yearly. And 1 million are admitted yearly.... *So we can capture up to 5 million active users actually in Nigeria*... Where retention rate is extremely high.
*People to pitch it to* 1. Passion ( even if we can get 100 million naira.. That's very good for a start).
........ If no Y-combinator comes in, we can get COO with agreement that If he performs well, he will close down his company for ours and we will give him shares here..
Bro. James trainers Noah or external employee.
External employee must be really tested for ideas suggestion like real exam. And ability to learn fast... And must be a first class studetns...
Then given training on a mock app before given employment letter.
3 reference needed.
Company growth strategies.
Advertisement plans. *Advertisement strategies* 1. Billboard in every school 1. video and pics adverts on other platforms 2. Refferal for coins advert 3. YouTube video posting adverts and giving YouTube creators money. 4. influncers in every school. 5. using food to create account.. Food or coin.. No coin if you collect food. Exact same value. Refer will be easy, with sign in like to download app.. And it will show all the features of the app.
But don't tell royal prince this first (ie the markerter. let him soirt out his own plan first and tell us). 6. People wanting to pay for subscription with 10 friends so as to share the money. That's a form of advert too.
Then you build your LMS.
And you build your labflow.. And connect all to the app automatically..
Give secondary schools for free for thier SS3 ONLY.
May University pay.
For NYSC, only make them continue on the app for 1 year once they upload their call up. That's it. People like EducationUSA, NANS, NSBS Nigeria should be able to create on the public group feature.
*Plans*
* complete all legal check.. And aggressive GPT 6 ASTRA security checks. * 200 users test by1 weeks before test. * lauch it 1 week before test or test week. * if successful, give Bro James your laptop. * then wheile you are in Nigeria, aggressively get pre-seed funding to send it to all of Nigeria and Africa. * develop it to include Waec studetns too. Then aggressively marketing towards them.
More servers and databases would help us add more features like campus Mataz first (and 24 hours status posting , and Trending.....The later, marketplace .
Pre-seed funding is to get a CEO (more marketing based,like Steve jobs), switch our servers and database to more advanced ones before aggressive marketing, get a very experienced technician, and give bonus to the programmer (Bro. James) and pay all previous bills.and for me to give Bro. James a working Mac which the company would pay for.
Then later we run ads etc.
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YC possible questions. 1. Ready for database crash 2. How to scale the app to millions of users with out database crash or server crash 3. Can you read your AI codes, eg Paystack or privacy ones (ans: we've devoted time to read all and verify all and correct any bugs). 4. How to handle F1 visa with it 5. Ready for AI API failures 6. NExt plans for the company . Do you have up to a 10 year plan at the moment? 7. Will you build laptop app (Mac and Windows and Linux- and how easy?) easy since we would use a cross platform eg. Electron. 8. What woukd you use the money to do? (move to a better server and database, retain key staffs, hire security staffs, hire experienced tech people, build our own databases and servers gradually, expand into countries). I think I've written this in some place in the website too, so just add that to it too .Original YC notes file
Owner answers — November 13, 2026 CEO paperwork: she should be done by Nov 22. 97% ownership is before fundraising. CEO is my wife. Later we can change to a new CEO ie from feb 2027 that will now be marketinc oriented. Launch success: That is measured from Dec 12 to Dec 31. Test dates are expected to be Dec13 to Dec 19. Product order: marketplace (ie the business traction_ comes after campus mataz, 24 hours status and Traneindg. Labflow is the same as a online lab notebook. We need all the features in Coursicles possible. Funding: use 1500 naira is 1 dollar.. But my estimates are in dollars, so convert to naira... $20 million SAFE is post-money.... so in that way $1M raise is just 5 percent of the company. Or I'm wring? meaning of post-money SAFE and pre-money SAFE and which is common Access: universities pay for LMS and Labnotebook.... Lab notebook is free for SS3 and LMS too is free for Ss3... Subscruption with 10 friends is the tutorials tab of the UNinata app. NYSC one year starts on call-up upload. upload will be verified manually for now. Pubic organizeation group creation has its own rules in UniMata already. YC: App target plans to apply by Jan 4. fallback COO emploument conditions will be settled alter.Confirmed owner answers file
Nov 13- Apply for DUNS. Before 200 uesrs relase, do aggressive tests that force users to create new password is someone is trying to hack their account. (or type in their 2 factor authentication code). Also, add the rate this app, notifications push for studying and for messages, and that write us a review. and tell us how the app has been, bad or helpful and comment. Upload common past questions for everyone to have for free. (just few ones like GNS111, GNS 211 and GNS 311). 1 week before 200 pulot test, give people like Bro. victor and other educationist ability to upload videos for free. just a portal. They won't even see the app yet. handle legal works for emails too, and email notifications too like tiktok. Same day you apply to Paystack, apply to Nigeria Data Protection rights. Nov 18 - Apply for your app to be on playstores asap. During pilot tests, seve more notifications to ensure users use the app more and its features. Things needed after 200 users. Change from Resend asap to better email auth. After 200 users launch, build service-status page for outagees, maintanance, incident updates. Confirm OpenAPI Moderiation AI is working fine: Avoid the YikYak crash. Make SU leaders moderators of the app and give them gifts as encouragement (ie in Campus mataz). *For maock exams tab (ie before lauch for even 200 uesrs), implement share your result (and that top scoring 3 students with likes and support are given awards. (ie good advert strategy). ie people click their link to like it, and repost for them. The more repost from their app, and more likes wins. Wins can be data/airtime giveaways, ... Also ambassadors have reshare codes to track their progress. Marketing stragey also: you can instead also give top reshare and referrals eg. highest 20 10k each. that may be cheaper than 10 referrals for coins.. Add it to the marketing strategy. BEfore 200 users lauch, do competitor analysizs (Schooly, Fizz, Sidechat, and Coursicle). Write academic book from Dec 28 too. And publish it out by Jan 10. (it should be part of the major milestones expected and major work in that summar to do). Before 200 users lauch, restrict videos to 30s. BEfore YC combinator read OneDrive/UniMata/1.Technical Personal Tutorials and systems book from ByteByteGo.Original launch additions
Overview: divide into Actions needed and Milestones expected. Nigeria Data Protection rights: keep that wording; a government agency in Nigeria to protect users data. Mock-exam competition: exam scores select the top 20; likes and reposts rank those 20 to determine the top 3; top 3 get awards.
add to the YC questuons to read ahead that "What is the cost you have spent now?" ane how much and on what things did you spend it on