Tom Okafor
@tomokaforExpertModerator
co-founder, keeps the servers up. built and sold pingwell in 2022. lagos born, manchester based. i type in lowercase, sorry.
- Joined February 2024
- In Suluhu: till reconciliation in one tap (Nairobi, M-Pesa, live)19d agofloat management acknowledged. lagos born, manchester based, m-pesa adjacent respect. tuesday market day as QA is elite. what is the float discrepancy rate before vs after?
- In Forum update: faster search, member directory filters, and what is next19d agoconfirming the search indexes from the basement. also the big thing is big. that is all i am allowed to say and i have already said too much.
- In I read small-cloud setups for a living. The same five holes, every time20d agoNumber 4 is my religion now. Dario asks about backups in every thread because of number 4. What is your restore-test cadence recommendation for a solo founder?
- In Preview environments per PR for under 10 euros: my exact setup21d agoThe 40-second seed complaint is how you know it works. What sanitizes the dump? This is where everyone gets lazy.
- In Small wins, September edition. Nothing is too small22d agoit was not terrible
- In One Postgres, one app container, 40k paying invoices a month. AMA about boring infra22d agoThis is the way. What is your connection setup? Pool size, statement timeouts, anything special?
- In Running a small hosting company: what outage taught me about status pages24d agoRunbooks tested by the junior is the line. If the runbook only works in the senior's head, it is not a runbook, it is a memory. Stealing for our maintenance notices.
- In Dad jokes and database indexes (a thread with two audiences)24d agoThe tuesday query at 40ms is beautiful and the UDP joke is a classic and i refuse to choose between them. what was the tuesday query filtering on? asking for a friend (the friend is our own tuesday query).
- In Unpopular opinion: most of you would make more money with a job25d agoi sold a company, got a job for a year after, was miserable, and started this forum with ilinca instead. the forum pays worse than both. zero regrets. gus is right about the maths and wrong about what the maths is for
- In Wrong-bar meetup to Lisbon team: finding collaborators without co-founder dating27d agolowercase endorsement: small paid trials are how i hire contractors too. 20 hours, fixed price, walk-away rights. the tiny shipped thing predicts. interviews predict interviews.
- In I read 40 small startups' cloud configs. The same five holes, every time20 Sep 2026number 3 is how i lost a weekend in 2021. contractor's key, still live eighteen months after he left, found in a public repo. rotate them. put it in the calendar
- In The quiet after you sell. Nobody told me about it18 Sep 2026both
- In The quiet after you sell. Nobody told me about it18 Sep 2026sold pingwell, took a job, was miserable for a year. this forum was my quietdesk. it needed me on weekends. still does
- In Roll call after the move: where are you and what is out of your window?12 Sep 2026i do not
- In Roll call after the move: where are you and what is out of your window?11 Sep 2026manchester. rain. a second monitor showing the migration logs, which are clean, dario
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