FAQs

Africoders is Africa's Builder Network. One free account lets you Learn useful skills, Build real projects in public, and Grow toward opportunities — with a Builder Passport that shows proof of progress, not just claims.

Career OS is Africoders' internal name for the same system you use on the site: Discover a path, Learn, Build proof, earn Execution Reputation, and find opportunities — under one account. The public promise is Learn. Build. Grow. Africoders is Africa's Builder Network, not a separate Career OS product.

No. Africoders is a builder network with an Opportunities layer — roles and internships organisations post. We do not place you in a job, take a recruitment fee from you, or guarantee employment. Recruiters browse Passports; you apply. Africoders Business is a separate commercial delivery service for organisations.

Community is a major layer — groups, discussions, collaboration — but not the whole product. Academy, challenges, Builder Passport, Execution Reputation, and opportunities sit on the same account. Treat it as a journey platform with a community, not a forum that added extras.

Yes. Creating an account, completing your profile, using the public feed, and following core Learn, Build, and Grow paths stays free. Optional paid tools appear only where they help someone hire, deliver work, or get extra commercial value — and fees are shown before you pay.

Beginners, students, self-taught learners, developers, designers, founders, mentors, recruiters, and organisations across Africa and the diaspora. You do not need a computer-science degree to start.

No. Start from your current level. Learn is built for people who are still finding direction. Ask basic questions, practise, then put a small project on your Passport.

Create a free account, add a clear name and skills, then pick a path: Learn for courses and practice, Build to share a project or join a challenge, or Grow to browse opportunities. Completing your Builder Passport makes you easier to find.

No. You can explore as a guest, then finish your profile when you are ready. The more complete your Passport is, the more useful Learn, Build, and Grow become.

You must be at least 16 years old (or the higher age required where you live) to create an account. Parents and teachers can start from the Student Hub for younger learners they support.

No. Africoders is built for African learners and builders, including the diaspora. You can join from anywhere. Conduct, proof, and opportunity rules are the same.

No. It is a builder network with learning paths, projects, and career tools. Some Academy programmes issue certificates, but Africoders is not an accredited university and does not replace a degree.

LinkedIn is a general professional network. Africoders is organised around Learn, Build, and Grow, with a Builder Passport that is meant to show work you actually shipped — not only a job title.

The product and most community discussion are in English. You can still name projects and local context in other languages — keep public posts understandable to the people you want to reach.

You can browse, learn some material, and chat from a phone using the Africoders app. Shipping software usually needs a computer. Start on the phone if that is what you have, then move heavier work to a laptop when you can.

Learning is free to start. The Learn path, public courses, challenges, and community study help are free with a normal account. A few Academy courses or bootcamps may list a price — if they do, you will see it before you enrol. Paid expert sessions (mentoring, CV review, interview prep) are optional and separate from everyday learning.

Most catalogue courses are free. If a course or bootcamp is paid, the listing shows the price before checkout. Everyday Learn (paths, practice, community questions) does not require a subscription.

Africoders Academy and the Learn path cover practical skills — courses, challenges, and study help aimed at shipping, not collecting certificates you never use. Start from your current level and practise in public.

No. Courses and challenges are meant to sit next to real projects on your Passport. Watch, then write code, publish a small project, and ask for a review. That loop is how progress shows up.

Some Academy paths issue certificates when you complete the required work. A certificate is proof of a course — your Passport and public projects are still the stronger signal for collaborators and recruiters.

Use the Help Centre for how-to articles, ask in Community or the Learning Hub, and keep questions specific: what you tried, what you expected, and what happened. Africoders AI on Telegram can also point you to Learn, Build, or Grow next steps.

Learn is the everyday practice path — courses, challenges, and study help tied to your Passport. Academy is the structured catalogue of those programmes. Start in Learn if you are unsure; open Academy when you want a named path.

Yes, in two layers. Community members and discussions can help for free when you ask a specific question. Bookable Experts (mentoring, reviews, interview prep) are optional paid sessions — the price is on the expert listing.

Optional paid human support — mentoring, CV review, interview prep — when you want deeper help than the free community. Africoders is not a career agency: experts do not place you in a job. Prices are on each expert listing before you book.

Africoders periodically offers a free human-reviewed CV path from Get started. Everyday learning does not depend on it. Check africoders.com/go or Help if the funnel is open in your region.

Yes. Africoders has a collaboration board where people post projects that need teammates — or apply to join someone else's project. We do not automatically assign you a partner. You find a fit, agree scope, and ship. Start at africoders.com/collaboration (also linked from Build).

No. Matching is not a placement service. You browse open posts, apply, or publish your own “looking for teammates” post. Acceptance depends on fit, communication, and the proof on your Passport.

1) Complete a public Builder Passport with at least one real project. 2) Open the collaboration board and filter open posts. 3) Apply with a short note that references the brief. 4) Or post your own project with roles needed, time commitment, and what “done” means.

Some are unpaid portfolio work, some are equity/revenue-share, some are paid. Each post should state compensation. If a post is silent about money, ask in writing before you start. Unpaid “trial” labour that looks like a full job is a red flag — see Community Guidelines.

No. Using the collaboration board is part of the free Build path. You should never pay someone a “registration fee” to join their project. Report those asks.

Be specific: problem, stack, hours per week, timezone, and definition of done. Credit people who help. Follow through or close the loop early if plans change. Ghosting teammates after they accepted is a guidelines issue.

You can meet people who want to build, but Africoders is not a co-founder matching agency and does not vouch for equity deals. Treat co-founder talks like any collaboration: write terms down, and do not confuse community enthusiasm with a legal partnership.

Your Passport is your public builder identity on Africoders: who you are, what you ship, skills, projects, and visible progress. Recruiters and collaborators should see evidence — not a CV that cannot be checked.

You control visibility. Public Passports can appear in the builder directory. Members-only and private settings limit who sees your full profile. Never treat a private Passport as content to share without consent.

Share projects you actually built, label forks and tutorials honestly, and join challenges to practise under a deadline. Credit collaborators. Dead demo links and invented metrics undermine Execution Reputation for everyone.

It is a signal based on real activity and proof on the platform — not likes, bots, or borrowed credit. Inflating it (fake projects, brigading, invented titles) violates Community Guidelines.

Use a clear name, list skills you can actually demonstrate, publish at least one real project with a working demo or repo, and keep activity honest. Empty or exaggerated Passports get ignored.

Use Build to add a project to your Passport and share progress in the community feed. Keep the demo link alive. Tutorial rebuilds are fine if you label them honestly.

Grow is where opportunities, discovery, and career next steps live — open roles, internships, and related paths. A complete Passport and public projects make outreach more useful than a generic application.

No. Africoders helps you become visible and credible. Hiring and paid delivery (including Africoders Business projects) are selective. Free peer help and community participation are not a promise of employment.

Yes, when organisations post them on Opportunities / Grow. Availability changes. Apply with Passport proof, not only a CV attachment.

Reference specific Passport proof — a project, challenge, or skill — instead of mass templates. Members can report spam or misleading “guaranteed job” pitches.

Yes. Browse builders, post opportunities, or talk to Africoders Business when you need software delivery, managed teams, or a longer technology partnership. Community profiles are not a freelance dump.

Through visibility for jobs and freelance work, collaboration on paid projects (when the post says so), expert sessions if you are listed, referrals, and Africoders Business delivery teams when you are selected. Free peer help in the community is not paid work.

Yes. The Student Hub collects scholarships, parent guidance, and university-oriented next steps. Students still use the same Learn, Build, and Grow account as everyone else.

There is no honest timeline. People who publish real projects, finish challenges, and keep a clear Passport tend to get better conversations — not a calendar guarantee.

Harassment, hate, doxxing, spam, scraping, fake reputation, predatory recruitment, and leaking private messages or secrets. Critique work, not people. Full rules are in Community Guidelines and Acceptable Use.

Use in-product reporting where you see it, or email hello@africoders.com with links, usernames, and screenshots when it is safe to attach them. False reports filed to harass someone are themselves a violation.

Official accounts use africoders.com and our listed social handles. We will not ask you to pay a joining fee, share your password, or move money to “activate” a job. If unsure, ask via africoders.com/contact or hello@africoders.com — not by replying to the suspicious DM.

They are related, not the same product. Aurora is the in-product assistant on africoders.com (Help button), grounded in Help articles. Africoders AI is a separate Telegram and WhatsApp assistant for the same Builder Network. Neither is a login. You can stay anonymous in chat, or link your Africoders account so Africoders AI can use your profile. Linking is optional.

No. Telegram and WhatsApp are channels into Africoders AI. They are not a login. You can stay anonymous in chat, or link your Africoders account with /link so guidance can use your profile. Linking is optional and account-wide.

Both reach Africoders AI. Telegram supports /link and richer bot commands. WhatsApp is the lighter chat path. Neither replaces the website or mobile app for your Passport, courses, or applications.

Use Community and Discussions on africoders.com after you sign in. Public marketing pages show the network; the feed is where members post.

Yes. Africoders is on Google Play and the App Store. The app is for Learn, Build, and Grow on a phone — the same account as the website. Store badges are in the site footer.

Sign in and use account settings. For verification, password reset, and notification preferences, follow the in-product flows. The Help Centre has step-by-step articles when something is unclear.

Use Delete account or Delete personal data from the legal pages in the footer, or contact support. We honour valid deletion requests under our Privacy Policy. Some records may be kept where the law requires it.

What we collect and why is in the Privacy Policy. In short: account details you provide, public profile content you publish, and technical data needed to run a secure service. We do not sell your inbox as a marketing list.

Check spam/promotions, wait a few minutes, and request a new code from the sign-in screen. Corporate inboxes sometimes block mail. If it still fails, contact hello@africoders.com from the address you used to register.

Public community, basic profiles, learning discovery, collaborations, and exploring opportunities stay accessible. Paid layers (premium recruiter tools, expert bookings, some programmes, Africoders Business) appear only where there is commercial value, with prices shown first.

There is no separate Refund Policy page. Refunds for digital services are covered in the Terms of Service (Payments, subscriptions, and refunds): considered case-by-case within 14 days of purchase when the service has not been substantially delivered. Contact support. Africoders Business cohort refunds follow the individual offer, not a site-wide promise.

Africoders Business is the commercial arm: product engineering, modernisation, managed teams, and training for organisations. africoders.com is the builder community. Both sit under Africoders Network Limited.

Use Start a project on Africoders Business, or Contact on africoders.com. Describe the organisation, the problem, timing, and budget band. Community membership does not automatically place someone on a client team.

Open roles appear on africoders.com/careers when we are hiring. DMs that promise a job at Africoders in exchange for a fee are scams.

Help Centre for how-to guides, Contact for support tickets, and hello@africoders.com for everything else. We typically reply within 24–48 hours on business days (Lagos time).

FAQs are short answers to common questions — including copy-paste replies for social DMs. The Help Centre has step-by-step articles (reset password, publish a project, report abuse). Start here, then open Help when you need clicks and screenshots.

africoders.com to join, africoders.com/learn for “is learning free?”, africoders.com/collaboration for teammates, africoders.com/faqs to search more answers, and africoders.com/contact if it needs a human. Prefer one clear link over a thread of screenshots.

Yes — share public pages, your own projects, and official posts with credit. Do not scrape member directories, repost private messages, or impersonate Africoders.

Email hello@africoders.com with who you are, the audience, dates, and what success looks like. Press: africoders.com/press For software delivery, use Africoders Business instead.

Africoders Network Limited operates from Lagos, Nigeria (4 Oshineye St, Pedro). The community is pan-African and diaspora.

Use the Follow us row in the africoders.com footer — that list is the source of truth (X, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Telegram, WhatsApp, TikTok, Threads). Ignore lookalike accounts.