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Founder projectLive since 20 October 2026
Naijacloud.
The cloud, made here.
Apps, databases, storage, email and domains in one dashboard. Billed hourly in naira from a prepaid balance, paid by bank transfer or card.
- ROLE
- Founder, product designer and engineer
- LAUNCHED
- 20 October 2026
- REGIONS
- Port Harcourt and Europe
- SURFACES
- Web dashboard, the njc CLI and SDKs
THE HEADLINE
9
Service types: web apps, static sites, cron jobs and six database engines
- ₦
- billed hourly from a prepaid balance
- 0
- downtime deploys, health-gated
- 11
- SDKs across 5 languages
$ njc launch
▸ Building … done
▸ PostgreSQL … ready
▸ Region … Port Harcourt
✓ Live → your-app.naijacloud.app
01 · The problem
Dollar card declined. Rate moved, so the bill moved.
Developers building in Nigeria pay for hosting with dollar cards. Cards get declined, and when the exchange rate moves, the bill moves with it. Naijacloud was built so the price you see is the price you pay, in naira, from money you’ve already topped up.
02 · What I built
One dashboard for everything an app needs to go live.
Managed databases
Create a database in a click and edit tables in the browser, with backups included.
Object storage
S3-compatible buckets, so existing tools and SDKs just work. A zone-aware, replicated store is being written in Rust.
Domains and email
Custom domains with automatic TLS on our own DNS, plus Naijamail for transactional email.
Argus observability
Sentry-compatible error tracking that groups errors into issues and sends alerts, with uptime and cron checks.
The njc CLI
Install from npm or Homebrew and run njc launch. Scriptable with --json, and it runs as an MCP server for AI agents.
03 · Key decisions
Pay in naira. By the hour. From a prepaid balance.
Billing people can predict
No subscription and no dollar card. Teams top up a balance, usage is metered by the hour, and deploys, domains, SSL and teammates are free.
Prices from real costs
Connectivity is the biggest cost on Nigerian nodes, so egress is metered and everything else stays cheap. The free tier covers one app, one database and unlimited static sites.
Safe by default
Environment variables are encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM, tenant containers are sandboxed, and every customer database is isolated from the others.
Never deploy the platform on itself
Naijacloud’s own services ship through GitHub Actions, so a bad release can never take down the tools needed to fix it.
04 · Stack
Under the hood.
Control plane
- NestJS
- GraphQL
- TypeORM
- PostgreSQL
- BullMQ
- Redis
- Traefik
Dashboard
- Next.js 16
- React 19
- Apollo Client
- GraphQL codegen
Nodes
- Go node agent
- Docker
- gVisor
- Tailscale
- Rust object store
05 · Results
What it added up to.
- 1,300+
- Commits across the platform in five months
- 6
- Starter apps: Next.js, Angular, Django, Vite and more
- Oct 2026
- Public launch, with a film and posts on X, LinkedIn and YouTube
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