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The Agentic Loop: 24 AI Tools in a Single Chat
Up to 10 iterations of LLM calls, 24 tools from file generation to code execution, background jobs for 30-minute tasks. The agentic heart of Deblo.ai.
Monitoring and Alerts: Email, Slack, Discord, Telegram, Webhooks
Building a monitoring system with periodic Docker stats collection, threshold-based alert evaluation, and multi-channel dispatch to Email, Slack, Discord, Telegram, and webhooks.
Credits, FCFA, and 6 African Payment Gateways
USD-cent pricing, 13 currencies, Orange Money and M-Pesa, 3 payment gateways, webhook-driven confirmation, and a background poller. Monetizing an African SaaS.
Cron Jobs and Preview Environments: Two Features, Zero Downtime
How we built cron job scheduling with timeout enforcement and preview environments with PR webhook integration -- developed in parallel using git worktree isolation.
14 Days, 105 Sessions, 1 AI CTO: The Complete Story of Building sh0.dev
The complete story of building sh0.dev -- a production-grade PaaS with 488 tests, 119 templates, 25 MCP tools, and an AI assistant -- in 14 days from Abidjan with zero human engineers.
Organizations: Families, Schools, and Companies on One Platform
Multi-tenant organizations with shared credit pools, join codes, access codes for phoneless students, and role-based membership for families, schools, and companies.
Six Languages, One Platform: i18n for Africa
French, English, Arabic (with RTL), Swahili, Portuguese, Spanish. How we built internationalization for a continent with hundreds of languages.
Tasks, Goals, and Recurring Reminders
The AI creates tasks from conversation context. Recurrence engine, due-date notifications, org-scoped visibility, and threaded comments on homework assignments.
#018 -- 10 Sessions: From Zero to a Working Compiler
Building a programming language compiler in 10 sessions: lexer, parser, type checker, codegen, and VM in two days.
#019 -- Error Diagnostics That Actually Help
How FLIN's error diagnostics help developers: source locations, colored output, and human-readable messages.
101 AI Advisors: Professional Intelligence for Africa
60+ specialized AI advisors across 14 categories: SYSCOHADA accountants, OHADA lawyers, tax specialists. How we built professional intelligence for Africa.
#004 -- Five Design Principles That Shape Every Line of FLIN
The five design principles behind FLIN: simple, zero-config, reactive, intent-native, and memory-native.