YoTop10
BuildingCommunity product
A full-stack rankings platform where communities create, share, and vote on top-10 lists — music, movies, tech, travel — rebuilt multiple times as the product vision matured.
My role: Built
Nzubechukwu Cyprian
Pharmacy student. Full-stack developer. AI builder.
I study Pharmacy at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Outside the lecture hall I build software — full-stack products, AI experiments, and open-source contributions — and I treat both like they matter, because they do.
Now
Currently building
A living product ecosystem — community products, developer tools, AI systems, fintech, media, and infrastructure. Not a graveyard of past projects; this is what's alive right now.
Moistello
BuildingFintech · Ecosystem product
Digital savings circles built around transparent, programmable financial infrastructure — modernizing rotating savings groups (Ajo, Esusu, ROSCA) with on-chain escrow and automated payouts.
My role: Built
Ceche
MaintainingDeveloper tool · Ecosystem product
A domain appraisal engine that evaluates domains across 16 dimensions and produces a dollar-value estimate — shipped as a CLI, a terminal UI, and an HTTP API.
My role: Built
MovieDB
ExploringMedia · Ecosystem product
A film discovery experience built around structured movie data — search, details, and watchlist-oriented browsing.
My role: Built
Contribution
Open source
Contribution over ownership — work done in other people's repositories, with evidence.
Drips Wave · Open-source contribution
Stellar ecosystem open source
Contributing to open-source repositories across the Stellar ecosystem through Drips Wave — recurring one-week contribution sprints where contributors earn points and rewards for merged work.
GrantFox · Open-source contribution
Stellar open-source collaboration hub
Contributing to open-source issues and bounties surfaced through GrantFox, a community-run collaboration hub connecting contributors with Web3 and open-source opportunities on the Stellar ecosystem.
The story
Pharmacy by school. Software by conviction.
Most people meet technology through a computer science department. I met it while studying Pharmacy at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka — and it stuck. The two disciplines reward the same instincts: precision, systems thinking, and respect for what happens when something fails.
Nzubechukwu Cyprian is a Pharmacy student at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and a full-stack developer who builds software, explores AI, and ships products.
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O4A INNOVATIONS
A holding company that builds, operates, and invests in businesses across technology, media, and services. My work sits inside that broader ecosystem.
Thinking
Writing
Notes on engineering, AI, products, open source, and the Pharmacy × Tech life — original, first-person, self-hosted.
AI
The model is not the product
Everyone debates which model is smartest. Almost nobody talks about the ninety other things standing between a prompt and a shipped feature.
Software engineering
Naming things is the whole job, sometimes
Most codebases don't have a naming problem — they have a thinking problem that shows up in their identifiers.
Product building
Shipping is a skill, and I practised it badly for years
Finishing things is not a personality trait — it's a practice with techniques. The ones that turned my graveyard of half-projects into shipped products.
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