Hey E, I've lurked on HN for how many years without posting? But felt compelled to give kudos to someone doing something that has been a pain point for folks like me doing tech startups in Africa - how to get paid.
I remember when we first started Topup Genie in 2009. We had to pay GTBank/Interswitch N150,000 of which we were able to get N75,000 waived just to begin to accept payments AND pay them a percentage of our income.
5 years ago in 2011, we built the payment piece of Topup Genie out as a service so other people didn't need to pay the N150,000 to integrate, but rather could just ride on ours for a flat N5 fee per transaction.
What Flutterwave is doing might seem so basic in the US or Europe, but I know how many of us have had to pave the way for a Flutterwave to emerge.
What are the plans for rolling out pan-Africa?