ObaisHim retweeted
Jun 14
PaperStack update…
So I finally started sharing the link in school groups today and I think I got one of the earliest builder lessons possible.
someone reacted with a laugh emoji. still not sure what was funny but okay. 😹
One guy immediately said the site wasn’t even moving from the homepage and then followed it up with “na only 100L you go send this one for”.
The funny thing is bro never signed up.
He didn’t check what courses were there.
Didn’t check what departments were there.
Didn’t even try the thing
Meanwhile another person immediately replied him and basically said “make una rest first check am” and reminded everyone that from 100L to 400L everybody uses past questions.
And that’s when I realized something.
When you put something you’ve built in front of people, they’re not always reacting to the product.
Sometimes they’re just revealing themselves.
Some people are naturally curious.
Some people are naturally supportive.
Some people have already decided what they think before they even click the link.
As for me, I’m only interested in feedback.
Tell me a feature is confusing.
Tell me a page is broken.
Tell me a department is missing papers.
Those are things I can actually improve.
But if somebody has already concluded before even trying it, there’s really nothing for me to do there
Well the best part though…
Two new users signed up today.
Now if you’re a builder you’ll understand why that’s funny.
To some people, 2 users sounds small.
To me that’s 2 actual human beings that saw something I built, thought it was useful enough to create an account and check it out.
Not bad for something that was just an idea sitting in my head some months ago.
Anyway, we keep building. More papers to upload. More departments to add. More bugs to fix.
And apparently more opinions to collect too
Jun 13
I’ve built products for clients and companies behind the scenes.
I was the chef in the kitchen. nobody saw me. the restaurant got the credit. and I was fine with that.
this time it’s different.
PaperStack is mine. which means people around me, in school and in my circles, will know I built it.
and somehow that scares me more than the technical problems did 😭
it’s not even my first product with my name on it. but this one feels different because I poured a lot into it.
I didn’t just build the app. I had to go out, source past questions, scan papers, clean them up, organize them and make the whole thing useful.
the more of yourself you put into something, the scarier it feels to release it.
I kept overthinking small things that most users probably won’t even care about.
then someone reminded me of something.
I’ve been building in public on X this whole time. sharing updates. sharing wins. sharing bugs. talking to strangers on the internet about my work.
she said, “a moving man always finds his luck.”
shoutout to @AAkamerenkeya. sometimes you don’t need advice, you just need someone to reflect back what you’ve already been doing. appreciate you fr 🙏
so yeah, I’m done overthinking.
PaperStack is going to the school groups.
I’ll tell people about it. I’ll take feedback. I’ll take criticism. I’ll improve it like a builder.
I’ll update y’all on how it goes.
if you’re hiding behind client work and scared to launch your own thing…I see you.
just do it 🤝
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Jun 13
I’ve built products for clients and companies behind the scenes.
I was the chef in the kitchen. nobody saw me. the restaurant got the credit. and I was fine with that.
this time it’s different.
PaperStack is mine. which means people around me, in school and in my circles, will know I built it.
and somehow that scares me more than the technical problems did 😭
it’s not even my first product with my name on it. but this one feels different because I poured a lot into it.
I didn’t just build the app. I had to go out, source past questions, scan papers, clean them up, organize them and make the whole thing useful.
the more of yourself you put into something, the scarier it feels to release it.
I kept overthinking small things that most users probably won’t even care about.
then someone reminded me of something.
I’ve been building in public on X this whole time. sharing updates. sharing wins. sharing bugs. talking to strangers on the internet about my work.
she said, “a moving man always finds his luck.”
shoutout to @AAkamerenkeya. sometimes you don’t need advice, you just need someone to reflect back what you’ve already been doing. appreciate you fr 🙏
so yeah, I’m done overthinking.
PaperStack is going to the school groups.
I’ll tell people about it. I’ll take feedback. I’ll take criticism. I’ll improve it like a builder.
I’ll update y’all on how it goes.
if you’re hiding behind client work and scared to launch your own thing…I see you.
just do it 🤝
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Jun 8
My name is Samuel Babalola.
A frontend engineer and product builder.
Most people see websites and apps.
I spend most of my time thinking about the systems, experiences and problems behind them.
I build web applications, PWAs and digital products that help businesses and people solve real problems.
From idea and design to development, deployment and scaling, I enjoy turning concepts into products people can actually use.
Recently I’ve been building products like CalebDeck, PaperStack and CalebNet while helping grow a startup from the ground up.
If you’re building something interesting, need a developer, or just enjoy talking about products, startups and technology, let’s connect 🤝
Jun 8
My name Benjamin Olamide.
A lifecycle and Email marketing specialist.
Most marketers focus on getting leads.
I focus on what happens after the click.
I help businesses turn interest into revenue through lifecycle marketing, CRM automation, email marketing, customer journey mapping, segmentation, and data-driven growth strategies.
From onboarding and activation to retention and re-engagement, I build systems that help companies create better customer experiences and generate more value from every customer relationship.
If you're looking to improve customer retention, automate your marketing, or build a stronger lifecycle strategy, let's connect.
Quote and tell us what you do.
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Jun 7
this kinda hits me differently cause of my experience…
for years I wanted to code. but my friends had laptops in secondary school. I didn't.
I'd watch YouTube tutorials and write notes with nowhere to practice. just notes.
I wanted to go to NIIT. The fees were a problem. the laptop requirement was another problem entirely.
Told my friend about NIIT, his parents paid for his lessons and got him a laptop…just the week after i told him. sometimes after my daily hustle (gadgets repair) at Ikorodu garage I'd go to his place to learn what he was taught in class and practice on his laptop before heading home.
My other friends had laptops sitting idle. I begged. of course they couldn't give me. even if it wasn't useful to them, it was still theirs.
then my sister got a teaching job. company laptop came with it. that became my opportunity. not the best machine. but I built on it consistently until it developed issues and she left the job.
I went back to writing notes.
later i was gifted a computer set after asking for help to support my tech journey. but light in my school area meant everything stopped the moment NEPA took light (made the computer almost useless to me). if I saw light, would put my phone on DND, build like my life depended on it. because it did. they could take it back and another month would pass before there's light again.
I doubted myself so many times. I had every excuse to quit. the passion kept me going.
Just last year on my birthday I saved up, asked for help, and got my own laptop for the first time.
the speed after that was mad. times 2 of everything I built before. CalebDeck. Paperstack. AuraTab. products that real people use today.
right now my charger is spoilt and I feel completely tied again. reminds me of back then. my laptop is my everything.
so no. a laptop doesn't guarantee success.
but if the hunger is already there…it removes the wall between you and your output.
and sometimes that wall is the only difference between building and just dreaming about it.
this is why I can't relax. when you've spent years wanting the tool and now you have it, resting feels suspicious. like you're ignoring a responsibility.
so I keep working.
Jun 7
What a weird way to look at it. Manner don't drop from heaven again.
A lady on Twitter bought me a good laptop 2 years ago, and I used that laptop to make over $20k( this my 2nd year in the tech space) and currently still using it. I was too broke to afford it.
After experiencing the opportunity a good laptop gives you.
That's why I bought 2 laptops for random people here on X lasted year and hopefully I can do that this year.
Not because a laptop guarantees success, but because it removes a major barrier and prepares you for opportunities when they come.
Nobody is saying a laptop guarantees a job. A laptop doesn't automatically create opportunities. What it does is put you in a better position to access them.
The difference between trying to build a career on a phone and on a laptop is huge. When my laptop got damaged, I panicked because I was broke and had to rely only on my phone. I quickly realized that "locking in" on a phone is completely different from locking in on a laptop.
With a laptop, you can apply for jobs faster, learn more effectively, attend interviews professionally, work on multiple tasks at once, use tools that simply don't work well on mobile, organize your workflow better, and reduce distractions. It helps you show up consistently.
A laptop is not the destination. It's a tool. But for many people trying to break into tech or remote work, it's one of the most important tools they can have.
And you people should stop acting like manner will drop from heaven.
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May 31
May dump 😭
we launched CalebDeck Mart, finished CalebNet, published the JUPEB Key Points and built the company’s website…and uploaded more past questions to PaperStack than I can count
somewhere in between, I fixed more bugs than I can count and slept less than I should have 💀
oh and apparently I came to this world yesterday too 😭
in one word… work.
May 31
May dump in 4 slide.
I celebrated my birthday in Grand style.
Went to the beach for the first time.
Overnight stay at the resort too.
Chinese restaurant for the first time.
Did the most romantic thing ever. Iykyk
Played some team games with friends.
Aura up by 1000.
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May 27
while everyone is outside enjoying Eid 😭💔
I woke up debugging one of the most annoying bugs I’ve faced in PaperStack so far
PDFs were loading perfectly on my laptop and my iPhone 13, so I thought everything was stable
then I sent the app to more people…
and suddenly some phones (including my other iPhone) were only showing blank white rectangles instead of past questions 💀
the confusing part was:
it still worked perfectly on MY devices
so at first I thought maybe:
-Firebase
-caching
- Vercel
- network
- corrupted PDFs
until I finally tested on an older iPhone and saw the actual error:
“Promise.withResolvers is not a function”
turns out the problem wasn’t the PDFs
it was browser compatibility 😭
the modern pdf.js build I was using depends on newer JavaScript features older iPhones don’t support yet
and because Chrome on iPhone still uses Apple WebKit underneath, both Safari and Chrome failed the same way
the fix ended up being switching PaperStack from the modern pdf.js build to the legacy browser build instead
wildest part is…
this bug stayed hidden because everything worked perfectly on my own devices 😭
lowkey reminded me that testing only on “my laptop and my phone” is one of the easiest ways to fool yourself as a developer 💀
anyway… Eid Mubarak guysss 🤝😭
Before ———————-> After
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May 17
good morning and happy sunday guysss 🤝🥺
damn… it’s been like 2 days since I last posted here, the algorithm probably thinks I abandoned X 😭
truth is I’ve just been extremely busy lately
been going around sourcing past questions, scanning and uploading papers to PaperStack, while also building the company portfolio site and working on CalebNet too
the coding part for CalebNet is actually done 😭 now we’re taking our time researching and curating affordable data plans carefully before launch, because we genuinely want it to be among the best and cheapest options students can use
these past few days have honestly been hectic, so if I’ve been breezing in and out, this is why 😭
I really miss being here fully and engaging my mutuals normally, but for now we just have to keep building
hope everyone’s doing okay though 🫂
I miss y’all fr
May 13
the hardest part isn’t even the coding 😭
I’ve been designing and building the UI/UX and backend for PaperStack for a while now… thinking that was the hard part
meanwhile the real work started after that
for days now I’ve been sourcing past questions from everywhere I can find, scanning rough/stained papers, converting them to PDFs with OCR, then still using GPT/Claude carefully to help clean things up while making sure the actual content doesn’t change
and trust me… that process is NOT easy 😭 especially when you’re naturally the quiet type outside
coupled with ongoing work on Calebdeck and CalebNet too… these past few days have honestly been choking
I lowkey miss being on X all day just engaging my mutuals 😭 but at the same time… we gotta build
still going through hundreds of papers right now and sometimes I genuinely ask myself:
“can I really pull this off?”
guess we’ll find out soon 🤝
but one thing I know is…
it’s too early and too late to give up
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May 13
the hardest part isn’t even the coding 😭
I’ve been designing and building the UI/UX and backend for PaperStack for a while now… thinking that was the hard part
meanwhile the real work started after that
for days now I’ve been sourcing past questions from everywhere I can find, scanning rough/stained papers, converting them to PDFs with OCR, then still using GPT/Claude carefully to help clean things up while making sure the actual content doesn’t change
and trust me… that process is NOT easy 😭 especially when you’re naturally the quiet type outside
coupled with ongoing work on Calebdeck and CalebNet too… these past few days have honestly been choking
I lowkey miss being on X all day just engaging my mutuals 😭 but at the same time… we gotta build
still going through hundreds of papers right now and sometimes I genuinely ask myself:
“can I really pull this off?”
guess we’ll find out soon 🤝
but one thing I know is…
it’s too early and too late to give up
Feb 13
So I decided to build something.
Paperstack.
A structured platform where students can:
•Find past questions by department & course
•Preview before downloading
•Bookmark papers
•Actually prepare without the chaos
Still building. But this one feels different.
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May 8
I been quiet cause i been building.
Anyway…i ran a scalability audit on Paperstack before launch…
Then Firebase hit me with this:
“Quota Exceeded.”
52,000 reads in one day.
with barely any users.
i just stared at my screen like 🧍🏾
here’s what was silently draining it
and how i fixed it without touching a single feature.
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May 8
good morninggggg friends
damn…being busy really made me miss a lot in the tech space😭.
Some days ago i missed the jumia recreation saga and now moniepoint own too😭
while all that was going on, I’ve just been locked in building
working on Calebdeck, Paperstack, CalebNet… and a lot behind the scenes
just checking in on my people before I go back to work
have a great friday, enjoy your weekend in advance…
as for me, I won’t be touching grass anytime soon 💀😹
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Apr 30
I built Paperstack entirely within the Codex app by prompting it to generate the ingestion pipelines that pull raw data from US and European archive APIs straight into a Cloudflare database. From there, I used Codex to write the Cloudflare API layer and code the custom Three.js frontend, relying on the AI to handle the heavy lifting of connecting the full stack.
paperstack.yrasool.workers.d…
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Apr 25
Guys😭i know i haven't been around much lately and it's intentional.
I been really busy building. Caleb Deck just got a major expansion…Caleb Deck Mart is coming live soon.
also putting time into Paperstack on the side.
I'm not disappearing. I'm just in the part of the process that doesn't allow for much noise. (I am bad at focusing on to many things at once, i respect yall that can do that honestly)
if I'm not engaging like before, just know it's not love lost or pride as i usually say. I'm just locked in.
I'll breeze in when I can. And I'll update you all when things ship.
this is how my weekend is going. while others are touching grass, I'm working.
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Mar 9
Builders roll call.
Quote this with:
Name
What you’re building
Tech stack
I’ll start.
I’m Oba, building Paperstack, a platform that organizes past exam questions and study materials so students stop chasing people for them.
Stack: Next.js, React, Tailwind, Firebase
Mar 9
Elon Musk is on this app every day promoting his work and building in public.
Meanwhile some of you are hiding your projects because you’re “shy”… while poverty is literally hovering over your head
Quote this with who you are and what you do. Let’s see the builders on here
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Mar 5
npm run dev time.
Life’s been busy so I haven’t shared updates, but Paperstack MVP just got push notifications.
Built it as a PWA and used FCM to handle it.
iOS made it stressful because PWA life, but we figured it out.
Redesigned the welcome page too.
MVP is done.
We build.
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Sure, we got spaces open, quarters are free in ....*checks paperstack....checks another paperstack* building 4, left side of the corridor when you enter are the male rooms, pick one with no name on it, we don't want a run in like last time... And yeah, welcome to Bravo Base
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