🇳🇬  Founder & Developer

Hussein
Yahaya

Building software that builds businesses. Founder of ForgeGrowth — the WhatsApp Growth System turning Nigerian businesses into 24/7 sales machines. Shipping real products from Nigeria where every line of code has to count.

Hussein Yahaya
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// The person behind the code

About me

I'm Hussein — a full-stack developer and founder based in Nigeria. I started writing code because I wanted to build things. I started a company because I wanted those things to matter.

At ForgeGrowth, I build the system that turns Nigerian businesses' WhatsApp into a 24/7 sales machine — capturing leads, replying instantly with AI, following up automatically, and closing customers while the owner sleeps. I wear every hat: architecture, TypeScript, client systems, and business strategy at 2am.

I also build in the open. Lodenix gives AI tools real-world signal via a single API call. NaijaMind is a fine-tuned LLM that finally understands Nigerian Pidgin, business context, and culture. Both Apache 2.0 — built to be used, not gatekept.

I work in NeoVim + Ghostty because your tools shape how you think. Deep in TypeScript daily, picking up Go for systems work, learning Rust because some problems deserve the right tool.

600+
GitHub contributions
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Years building products
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Live products shipped
Things left to build

Forge Growth

Forge Growth

ForgeGrowth is a WhatsApp Growth System for Nigerian businesses. Not a website agency. We build and manage the system that turns a business's WhatsApp into a 24/7 sales machine — capturing leads, replying instantly, following up automatically, and closing customers while the owner focuses on running their business.

Nigeria has 52 million+ WhatsApp Business downloads. 95% of Nigeria's digital population uses WhatsApp. Yet most Nigerian SMBs manage it manually — losing leads to slow replies, forgotten follow-ups, and zero automation. We fix the system. One closed deal from WhatsApp covers the entire monthly fee.

Starter
Get Started
Setup: ₦75,000
Monthly: ₦25,000
Premium
Full System
Setup: ₦250,000
Monthly: ₦75,000
Visit forgegrowth.ng → LinkedIn Instagram

// Built in the open

Open Source

Open Source · Live
Lodenix

The intelligence layer for AI tools. One API call feeds your models real-world signal — curated, scored, and served by domain. Sales tactics, trading signals, viral hooks, ad copy angles — all auto-refreshed and prompt-ready. No vector DB, no scraping pipeline, no RAG infrastructure to build. Built for developers shipping AI products who can't afford to hallucinate.

REST APIRAGTypeScript AI / LLMApache 2.0github.com/Forge-Growth/lodenix
Open Source · In Dev
NaijaMind

An AI that actually speaks Nigerian. Fine-tuned on Qwen 3 to understand Pidgin, local business context, and how people here really communicate. Knows “abeg”, “wahala”, Paystack, USSD flows, and ₦500 buying power. Open weights, Apache 2.0 — AI that finally sounds like home and is free for anyone to use or build on.

Fine-tuningQwen 3Pidgin NLP Apache 2.0Open Weightsgithub.com/Forge-Growth/naijamind

// How I build

The stack

TypeScript
primary
React
primary
Next.js
primary
Node.js
primary
AWS / GCP
infra
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PostgreSQL
database
Go
learning
Rust
learning
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Tailwind
styling
NeoVim
editor
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Python
scripting
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Lua
config

Connect

Whether you want to talk business, collaborate on open source, or just geek out on tech and the Nigerian builder scene — reach out.