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Builder Challenges
Earn execution signals on your Builder Passport and build with the community.
Africoders Launch Campaign
Learn. Build. Grow.
What do you want to learn or build in the next 10 weeks?
Week 1 of 10
Introduce Yourself + Choose Your Goal
- Week 1: Introduce Yourself + Choose Your Goal
- Week 2: Show Us What You're Building
- Week 3: Builder Pitch
- Week 4: Share a Useful Resource
- Week 5: Help Us Test Africoders
- Week 6: Teach Us in One Minute
- Week 7: Skill Swap
- Week 8: Bring One Africoder
- Week 9: Demo Day
- Week 10: Portfolio / Finished Project Showcase
One path: Choose → Plan → Learn / Build → Share → Improve → Demo → Showcase.
Learn
Pick one skill.
Build
Ship every week.
Grow
Show your proof.
Week 1: Introduce Yourself + Choose Your Goal
Share your nickname, why you joined Africoders, and one thing you want to learn or build in 10 weeks. Create a simple zero-budget/free-resource plan.
Open and upcoming
Week 1: Introduce Yourself + Choose Your Goal
Share your nickname, why you joined Africoders, and one thing you want to learn or build in 10 weeks. Create a simple zero-budget/free-resource plan.
Week 2: Show Us What You're Building
Share a project you have built, are building, or built before. Tell us the problem, what you made and what you learned.
Completed challenges
These briefs have ended. They remain here as a record of past Build work — not the current open experience.
Campus outreach sprint
Ambassadors and community builders: bring 5 new learners onto Africoders with a clear onboarding path.
Open-source contribution sprint
Make a meaningful open-source contribution — bugfix, docs, or feature — and document what you shipped.
API in a weekend
Design and ship a small public API that solves a real African-context problem (payments stub, SMS relay, market prices, etc.).
Design critique: improve one hiring screen
Redesign or critique a hiring/builder discovery screen. Share before/after and the hiring signal you improved.
Build Journal: document one shipped week
Write a public Build Journal entry covering what you shipped this week — decisions, blockers, and proof links.
Ship a 48-hour portfolio project
Pick a real problem, build a thin slice, and publish it on your Africoders Builder Passport with problem statement, outcomes, and a demo link.
Daily: explain one concept simply
Write a short public explanation of one technical concept you used this week — for a junior builder in Africa.
Closed: January shipping league
A past monthly league for builders who shipped public proof every week.