0fee

The payment API built for Africa

Payment orchestration supporting 150+ providers across Africa. MTN MoMo, Orange Money, Wave, M-Pesa, Stripe, PayPal. Unified API, unified webhooks, AI smart routing. Fixed 0.99% fee.

FastAPI + SolidJS 150+ providers 0.99% fee

Building 0fee

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Building 8 SDKs With Zero Human Engineers

How we built 8 SDKs in 7 languages plus 3 platform plugins for 0fee.dev with zero human engineers. By Juste A. Gnimavo and Claude.

8 min Mar 27, 2026
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The Pricing Evolution: From Tiers to 0.99%

How 0fee.dev's pricing evolved from 3 tiers to a flat 0.99% fee with no monthly charges and infinite credit. By Juste A. Gnimavo.

8 min Mar 27, 2026
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Lessons From Building a Fintech Platform With AI

What worked, what was hard, and what surprised us building 0fee.dev as a CEO-AI CTO team. Advice for AI-assisted fintech. By Juste A. Gnimavo.

9 min Mar 27, 2026
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The Numbers: 86 Sessions, 70,000+ Lines of Code

The complete statistical breakdown of 0fee.dev: 86 sessions, 70,000+ lines, 90+ endpoints, 8 SDKs, and more. By Juste A. Gnimavo.

8 min Mar 27, 2026
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What No Human Engineer Would Do: 42 Files in 45 Minutes

Analyzing Session 001 of 0fee.dev: 42 files and 7,900 lines in 45 minutes. What AI does differently from human engineers. By Juste A. Gnimavo.

8 min Mar 27, 2026
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What's Next for 0fee.dev

The roadmap for 0fee.dev: subscriptions, payouts, dispute management, more African providers, and multi-currency wallets. By Juste A. Gnimavo.

9 min Mar 27, 2026
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The Big Currency Update: Source and Destination Currencies

How we redesigned 0fee.dev's currency model with source and destination currencies across 13 files. By Juste A. Gnimavo and Claude.

8 min Mar 27, 2026
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WAL Race Conditions and SQLite Lessons

The WAL mode race conditions that plagued 0fee.dev's SQLite database and ultimately pushed us to PostgreSQL. By Juste A. Gnimavo.

8 min Mar 27, 2026
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Amount Display Bugs: When 5 USD Shows as 0.05

The amount display bugs that plagued 0fee.dev: wrong divisions, integer vs float, and how we fixed them across 50+ files. By Juste A. Gnimavo.

8 min Mar 27, 2026
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Fixing Infinite Loops and 500 Errors

The infinite loops and 500 errors that struck 0fee.dev across multiple sessions, and how we traced and fixed each one. By Juste A. Gnimavo.

9 min Mar 27, 2026
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86 Sessions in 80 Days: The Complete Build Timeline

The complete build timeline of 0fee.dev: 86 sessions across 80 days, from first commit to production deployment. By Juste A. Gnimavo.

8 min Mar 27, 2026
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The December 12 Marathon: 13 Sessions in One Day

13 development sessions in a single day: the December 12 marathon that transformed 0fee.dev from prototype to platform. By Juste A. Gnimavo.

9 min Mar 27, 2026
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