Software developer and tinkerer.

Steve
Chikwiri

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01/Projects
265 Charades→

A charades game built for Kenya, Malawi and South Africa. One codebase, three apps, mobile-money paywall.

2025 —
AI For The Rest Of Us→

Free AI training where everyone leaves with something they built. Three sessions, fifty-plus people.

2025 —
App financials

A unit-economics warehouse for 265 Charades. LTV, CAC, payback and a 24-month cohort projector.

2026
Manyumba

Real-estate listings pulled from Malawian WhatsApp groups and cleaned by an LLM pipeline.

2024
02/Writing
Transitioning from GUI driven development to AI agent driven development→

I am handing you these tools with the premise that if you loop over them enough and in the right order, you will be able to answer any question thrown at you.

28 Jul 2026
M-Pesa vs Apple & Google Pay?→

(From a LinkedIn post I wrote)

15 Jun 2026
Will it make the boat go faster? How clear metrics are central to building successful products and teams→

My experience working on products with performance metrics at the centre and the lack of them.

4 Jun 2026
POSITIONING FOR PRODUCT MARKET FIT→

Preparing for mass market adoption after winning over early adopters

4 Feb 2026

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03/Community
AI For The Rest Of Us→

Practical AI training in Blantyre. No slides, no jargon. You build a thing.

Organiser & facilitator
Kachere AI→

A free legal-aid assistant for Malawians, delivered over WhatsApp.

Builder
Hello World Malawi

A developer community for people getting into software in Malawi.

Organiser
04/Previously

ChitChat, MoPhones, Brij Technologies, OrderPro Malawi and UNICEF Malawi.

Mobile, payments and the odd backend. Details on request.