Building an Event Ticketing App for Africa and Beyond

My name is Sarpong from Ghana and it is my first time on here.

This is a story of how I created an event ticketing app,Eventdey,for Africa and Beyond.

Did I waste my time? I do not know but at least I have tried my best to solve a problem and that makes me happy.

The story.

I once wanted to attend an online seminar in Ghana and the procedure was to

- Make a payment for the Seminar - Take a screenshot of the payment - Send the screenshot to the event organiser - And when the time of the event was due, the event organiser will send a link to the event.

I felt that this was a long process and with the little programming I know, I could automate the whole process and do it in one click. I worked for 4 months to build the MVP and deployed it on the 20th December 2024

Since it went live, I have have over 1000 people visit the site with one event created on the platform.

I know that is not a lot for some of you but to me, that is a big deal. 1000 plus users on an application that I created and it didn't break? It means that I have done something right at least I am not a bad engineer .

The event that was listed on the platform has currently sold out,it was a free event, and I am really excited for this but What I do not know is how much this application can scale and how much load it can take.

I guess, I will never know until lots of people use it but I am hear on hacker news to share my story about how the young guy from Ghana who did not know anything about programming has been able to build a web application which is live on the internet that event organisers can use create an event and sell tickets online in Africa, Usa and in Europe.

I do not know who is going to read this but wherever you are in life, when you see a problem and you think you can solve it, just do it. Yes, it takes time and effort but if you really want to solve the problem go for it and do your best. Think of this, if you do not do it who is going to do it?

Will people end up using the solution you create?

Well, that is not up to you for people to use the solution you create but think of it like an Hospital, people walk pass the hospital all the time when they are not sick or a family member close to them is not ill but when these same people are ill or a family member is ill, nobody will ask them to walk into the hospital, they will go themselves.So people will not use your application if they do not need it, but if your application is solving a real problem and people need it, they will find it.

The point that I am trying to make is to do whatever you have in your mind, if it fails at least you tried. Imagine I never created Eventdey, those 1000 visitors won't have been on the site, I wouldn't even have written this text on Hackernews and the one event which has been created on there won't have been created.

Enough of me trying to be a motivational speaker because I am not. Just follow your bliss.

If you happened to have read to this point then thank you very much. Sorry for my bad english, english is not my language. I am an Akan and my language is Twi.

Medase, Sarpong