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← AFRICODERS BUILD CHALLENGE #1

Results

Staff placed 1st, 2nd and 3rd. Community Choice is a separate member vote.

Community Choice finalists

1st Place · ₦200,000

Finora (AI-Powered Personal Finance for Nigerians)

Abdulfatai @abdulfatai · Ilorin

The problem

Many people manage their finances across different places such as bank apps, POS transactions, cash, receipts, notes, and spreadsheets. This makes it difficult to get a clear picture of how much they spend, where their money goes, and how much they are saving. Students, workers, freelancers, and other people with regular or irregular income may know their transactions but still struggle to understand their overall spending habits.

What they built

Finora is an AI-powered personal finance platform that helps people track, manage, and understand their money in one place. It is designed for students, young professionals, freelancers, NYSC corps members, small business owners, and anyone who wants better control over their finances. Users can record income and expenses, scan receipts with AI, view spending patterns, receive personalized financial insights, and generate financial reports.

Technologies

React.js TypeScript Node.js Express.js MongoDB Tailwind CSS Redux Toolkit Google Gemini Cloudinary Resend

2nd Place · ₦120,000

Storyloom

Vestor @kingdomvestor · Lagos

The problem

The hardest part of social storytelling is not the idea — it is the conversion. Smart founders, marketers, and creators already have the insight, but most of their content never turns into polished visuals because the process is fragmented, slow, and design-heavy. Existing tools either require a blank-canvas workflow or produce generic outputs that do not match a brand’s voice, tone, or style. Storyloom solves this by collapsing the full content-to-visual workflow into a single product: content input, structured generation, visual editing, brand control, and export — all in one place.

What they built

Storyloom is an AI-powered content-to-carousel studio that turns a single idea, article, or web link into a polished, brand-aware 4:5 carousel in minutes. Instead of forcing creators to start from a blank canvas, Storyloom structures their thinking into editable slides, maintains visual consistency, and exports production-ready assets for LinkedIn and Instagram. It is built for founders, marketers, solo creators, and teams who need to turn insight into social content quickly without hiring a designer or spending hours manually formatting slides. The experience is simple: paste text, generate a deck, refine the content, apply branding, and export polished PNG/PDF/ZIP assets.

Technologies

Node.js Express JavaScript Supabase Render PostgreSQL Gemini API Puppeteer HTML/CSS

3rd Place · ₦50,000

The Call Assistant — v0.0.1 MVP

Cassandra @cassandra · lagos

The problem

During calls and meetings, it’s easy to miss important details while trying to listen, take notes and keep track of action points at the same time.

What they built

You know how you randomly get work/business calls on WhatsApp and have to pick up immediately, and then you’re just there trying to remember everything that was said?...What if you can record transcribe and get a meeting note for these calls?

Technologies

Python FastAPI React