Oluwafemi O. | SaaS Founder @FemiBuilds

The factory metaphor is exactly right. But here is what I think is missing from the conversation. The final year project was supposed to be the quality control check. The moment before graduation where a student had to prove they could identify a real problem, research it honestly, and defend their thinking under pressure. That is literally what employers say they want. Critical thinking. Problem solving. Communication. Discipline. But somewhere along the way the final year project became another box to tick. Students pay strangers to write it. Supervisors sign off without reading it. Universities celebrate completion without checking quality. The factory is producing defective products and the quality control department is asleep. I built Docuee because I believe the final year project, done properly, is one of the most powerful workforce preparation tools we already have. We just stopped using it seriously. You do not need a new curriculum. You need to make the existing process actually work the way it was designed to. That is the whole bet behind Docuee.

The number that stops me is not 2.6 billion years. It is the fact that we are still sending students into final year university projects with supervision systems designed before the internet existed. Quantum computers are solving problems in 4 minutes that would take longer than the universe has existed. Meanwhile a student in Nigeria is still chasing their supervisor on WhatsApp for feedback on a chapter they submitted 3 weeks ago. The gap between what technology can do and what our education systems actually use is the most underreported crisis of our time. That gap is what I am building Docuee to close. One final year student at a time.

@idea_flavour @winexviv No AI wrote this. I use AI as an editor sometimes — to sharpen what I already think. But the cafe, the students, leaving Abuja, 3 years of building — that is all mine. Nobody generates a story they lived.

Norway is asking exactly the right question. Not "how do we use AI in schools" but "what are schools actually for?" If the answer is learning to read, write and think — then AI that does the reading, writing and thinking for students is not a tool. It is a replacement. The problem is that banning AI does not automatically produce students who can think. It just removes one shortcut while leaving the underlying system — built around grades, compliance and completion rather than genuine thinking — completely intact. You can ban AI and still graduate students who cannot construct an original argument. The real fix is not removal. It is building systems where thinking is unavoidable — where a student cannot progress without actually engaging with the problem in front of them. That is harder than a ban. But it is the only thing that actually works. That is the whole bet behind Docuee.

This puts the whole AI era in perspective. The companies building the foundation need hundreds of billions to survive. The founders building on top of that foundation need a few thousand paying users to survive. Completely different scales. Same underlying pressure — build something people value enough to pay for, or disappear. I think about this building Docuee. The infrastructure Anthropic and others are building costs more than most countries earn in a year. I am just trying to get the next final year student to pay ₦7,000 ($5) and finish their project. But without that foundation, none of what I am building is possible. The giants need hundreds of billions. I just need my first 50 paying students. Both problems are existential at their own scale.

🇫🇷 Docuee is coming to French-speaking students very soon. We have been working on full French localization for the past few days and it is almost ready. If you know any francophone students or universities struggling with their final year projects — Docuee is about to speak their language too. Stay tuned. docuee.com

Some days you build. Some days you just hold the line. Both count.

@Pergament_F Where is the lie?

"Things won't be measured in dollars, just mass and energy." A future where currency itself becomes irrelevant compared to physics is wild to think about. Right now though, I'm still very much in the dollars-and-naira economy — trying to get one supervisor and a handful of students to see ₦7,000 of value in something I built. Different scale of problem. Same instinct to bet on something most people can't see yet.

A trillion times a trillion dollars on antimatter to reach other star systems. Meanwhile I'm trying to convince one supervisor at a time to trust a platform that costs ₦7,000. Different number of zeros. Same basic bet — that something worth building is worth pursuing long before anyone else believes it's possible.

Did my first ever radio interview a couple days ago. Was going strong, answering questions, feeling like a real founder. Then MTN said "not today" and the network just died mid-sentence. Nigeria will keep you humble. Every single time.

Elon once said — if you fall in love with what you're building, that's the signal. Don't chase what others will love; if you love it, others will. I didn't start Docuee because I researched what the market wanted. I started because I sat in a cafe watching students fail and I genuinely could not stop thinking about it. That obsession came first. Everything else — the structure, the features, the supervisors — came after. 3 years later, the love for the problem hasn't changed. The product has, many times over. That's the part nobody tells you — loving the problem has to outlast every version of the solution you build and rebuild trying to get it right.

The collaboration part is the one that gets me most. Final year students get punished for working together on a project meant to prepare them for a career where collaboration is the entire job. Meanwhile, the actual skill nobody tests — sitting with a hard problem alone long enough to understand it before you bring in help — barely gets attention at all. We built a system that punishes the wrong thing and ignores the right one. I built Docuee because I kept watching this play out with final year students — graded on memory and isolation, never on the thinking that actually matters.

@CallMe_Hamdah Thank you — appreciate you saying that. It's a quiet pain point. Nobody talks about it loudly, but almost every final year student has felt it at some point.

Just did my first ever radio interview — live on Campus Radio 89.7FM, UDUS. Talked about Docuee, leaving my job in Abuja, and the cafe where this all started 8 years ago. Got through most of it before my network dropped — MTN had other plans today. If you listened today: message me on WhatsApp saying "FM" and you'll get ₦1,000 off Docuee (₦6,000 instead of ₦7,000), plus I'll personally walk you through getting started. 3 years building this mostly alone, and today I got to say it all out loud to the people I actually built it for. This is just the beginning. docuee.com

Today at 3PM I'm live on Campus Radio 89.7FM, UDUS — talking about Docuee, building it alone for 3 years, and what it actually takes to turn an idea into something real. If you're a final year student listening — there's a discount waiting for you. docuee.com

@justsayswissben @lowkeyjohnnap Godspeed to you too, brother. Go build something good in that city.

Appreciate you, brother. Abuja gave me the job that paid the bills and the certainty that something was missing. Both mattered. Wherever you're starting from right now — give it real time before you judge whether it's working. The slow months are part of it, not a sign you're failing. Wishing you well there. You'll make it.

@elonmusk hey @grok what would Stockfish-level coding actually look like in practice?