Accra, Ghana
Currently building Menuraq
Muhideen
6 yrs
Writing software
40+
Surfaces shipped in Menuraq
2 yrs
Building it solo
$0
Outside capital taken
Technical founder
Software should take the shape of the business, not the other way round.
Six years writing software, the last two of them building Menuraq end to end — the operating layer that runs a food business, from the menu on the table to the money in the books.
Product architecture
Multi-tenant data models
Resilient systems
Offline-first, idempotent sync
Full-stack engineering
TypeScript, Python, Postgres
Founder-led design
One design system, six business types
What I'm building
Menuraq
It started as a menu on a phone. That took weeks. Then the menu got asked to do more — take the order, show the kitchen, tell the counter, reconcile the books.
The market sells those as five products. They're one problem with five faces, and the menu is the layer underneath all of them.
So I built it as one system, for food businesses in West Africa , priced in their currency, paid the way they actually get paid.
- 6Business types it reshapes for
- 9Operating modes
- 1Person who built all of it
Built on
- TypeScript
- Python
- Next.js
- PostgreSQL
- Supabase
- Row-level security
- Offline-first sync
- Idempotent writes
- Multi-tenant architecture
- Mobile money payments
Shipped in Menuraq — every surface built by one person
How it holds up
Four decisions the
whole thing rests on
Power cuts and dead networks aren't edge cases in this market. They're the design brief.
Selected work
Things I've shipped
Writing
Notes from the build
The trade-offs, the wrong turns, and the parts that were harder than they looked.
Mohammed Muhideen Abdul Kadir — Accra, Ghana
Who I am
I built first and started selling second — an unusual order, and a deliberate one.
Most software in this market arrives as a demo and a promise. I'd rather arrive with a system an owner can use the same afternoon.
- Is it just you?
- On the building side, yes. I designed and built the whole platform. Abdul Rahim tests it as an owner would and finds what I've stopped being able to see.
- Have you run a restaurant?
- No. I've spent two years paying attention to people who do, and built against what they told me rather than what I assumed.
- Are you funded?
- No. It's built without outside capital, which is exactly why it runs on infrastructure that costs almost nothing until there's real usage.
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