this phase was driven by the quest: “get people to pay for real-world services”
it was important that it was in the “real-world” to take me out of my comfort zone building digital products.
next question was “what were the hardest low-barrier things I could run in 6 months to compress my learning.” ended up with:
food delivery for offices. because: low margins and high (perceived) value. plus, running last-mile logistics for perishables on the streets of lagos had to be fun.
teaching kids to code, at home. because: home-tutoring is as high-trust as it gets so it had to be a worthy operations and marketing challenge trying to grow in the market.
ran both simultaneously with amazing people for half a year.
the home tutoring business still runs today without me.