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I think this not only looks like a great app but also really hope to see more startups focusing on the needs in developing countries. How did you end up going

I think this not only looks like a great app but also really hope to see more startups focusing on the needs in developing countries. How did you end up going there and building this? Was it sort of a by-product of working with an NGO or did you specifically go to Rwanda to do a mobile startup in a developing country?

nicpottier 13y ago
That's kind of a subject for a blog post which I've been meaning to write.. but ya, Eric and I ended up Rwanda just because we wanted to do something different with our software skills. So we moved here, started a company, hired on some brilliant devs and started working with various NGOs which introduced us to how SMS is a really useful tool. Eventually we decided we wanted to do something better than the current tools available, something that could be used easily by NGOs large and small and that's where TextIt came in. Lots of twists and turns in that story of course, but that's the cliff notes.