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Terminal: whoami prints Richard Nii Lante Lawson, co-founder of TypeRes, Varelynt, SoloArena, AiMlCamp and withNiiLante, Accra, Ghana

hi, I'm Richard.

I'm a technical founder in Accra, and a co-founder of TypeRes, Varelynt, SoloArena, AiMlCamp and withNiiLante. I'm also in Ghana NLP, on open language technology for Twi, Ewe, Ga and Dagbani.

Most of what I ship lives behind a login where nobody can see it, so this page is the receipt: what exists, what it does, and what I haven't proven yet.

typeres.com  ·  LinkedIn  ·  Codementor


TypeRes: event, print and business essentials marketplace — everything you need to make it happen

TypeRes is the one I'm closest to: Ghana's marketplace for event, print and business essentials. Three collections — Events, Print & Brand, Business — because the same person buying canopies for a wedding is buying shirts for a team and bottles for a shop, and in Ghana that usually means three different WhatsApp threads and three different prices. The marketplace is built. The pilot is Kumasi. Everything below is what I insist on before it goes live. typeres.com


The other things I co-founded

Varelynt: creator campaigns with proof built in — terms, delivery, performance and payout in one record SoloArena: one-on-one basketball in Ghana, with verified player data and tournaments

AiMlCamp: a community of AI and ML builders in Ghana withNiiLante: TikTok and the other social channels where the work gets explained


How the work gets checked

I don't trust a green test run I haven't watched fail first. Every piece of work I run ends with a numbered ticket, a stated verdict and an explicit list of what was not verified — on a client's system exactly as on my own product. It is slower, and it's the only way I can say "done" without guessing.

Four rules I ship under: the test comes first, hash before and after, every pass ends in a verdict, say what you did not verify

What I actually reach for

Laravel and Livewire do most of the work. Everything else shows up when the job needs it, not because it was new that month.

Stack: PHP, Laravel, Livewire, MySQL, Blade and TypeScript daily; Node, Python, Docker, Nginx, Cloudflare and Linux when needed; Vue, Java, Spring, SQL and Git from school

This year, itemised

Nearly every contribution I make lands in a private repository — a product, its tests, its tickets, five ventures. The public commit count has never been the interesting number.

This year itemised: 642 contributions, 632 of them in private repos, 2,285 public repos, 72 originals, on GitHub since 2015


Accra, Ghana · GMT · every graphic here is a hand-drawn SVG, drawn and refreshed by one Node script with no dependencies.

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  1. kasa kasa Public

    Forked from GhanaNLP/kasa

    English to Twi translation system being put together by the GhanaNLP team

    Jupyter Notebook 1

  2. data-science data-science Public

    Forked from ossu/data-science

    📊 Path to a free self-taught education in Data Science!

    1 1

  3. Faker Faker Public

    Forked from fzaninotto/Faker

    Faker is a PHP library that generates fake data for you

    PHP 1

  4. feathericon feathericon Public

    Forked from feathericon/feathericon

    [ Icons ] Simple, scalable vector icon font for websites, apps.

    HTML 1

  5. ghana-cities ghana-cities Public

    Forked from oliverboamah/ghana-cities

    Regions and their corresponding cities in Ghana

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