I couldn’t really mean that, if I had known. But we should learn the habit of encouraging folks already in the circuit. Any perplexing thing can happen, you know. Although, I have always doubted Prayerbox; but the point still remains.
Prayer Box is a valid idea. Nigerians are crazy about religion. All it needs is the right strategy and execution. If people can pay ten percent of their monthly income to different characters to intercede with God that is everywhere then why should a prayer platform be so far fetched?
This is religion, all you need is faith 
logic be damned.
Edit: I just went to Prayerbox.co just now and I saw a suspended page. I guess the backers are men/women/elders/otunbas of little faith. The Nigerian market has a way of disbelieving people. I swear!. Forget all grand dreams and Ideas. Just copy what others have successfully executed. Open yet another gossip/tech site or payment startup (currently hot), be holier than thou about copy & paste and irrational adverts then eventually, when owu (Deep hunger and want) stares you in the face and/or your backers start demanding for ROI, join the band wagon or just simply give up like so many before you.
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Radar. Never change.
I’m not sure how easy it is to set up a payment startup like you are making it seem. If you don’t understand a business, and you just want to jump, well, you are on some long thing, just played yourself.
Nothing is easy. Even opening a tech/gossip site and running it is not easy. If you doubt it, try and open one. I will wait to hear your tales.
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I have never commented on anything being easy. Oga, na you I dey respond wey make am be like that. Abi are we on “easy, easier, easiest” here?
Err… Did anyone note the dig at Radar/Techcabal?
Correction: ease, easso, eassest. 
At least that’s the English awon Falz are teaching us
Prayerbox was not offering religion. It was offering a place to dump your prayers and testimonies. Unless you can guarantee that you have an MOU with God to answer any prayer posted on Prayerbox, then there is no valid point to post my prayers there.
People go to church because, amongst many other things, there is someone there who they believe God listens to and answers his/her prayers, and there are miracles and testimonies to validate that. So unless Ozombo can perform miracles, Prayerbox was never a valid idea.
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Oga. Nobody was offering religion. It has to do with religion. Simple. I am equally baffled as to why rational humans will drop their January salaries as first fruits after suffering through December. To me, it’s an incredibly stupid idea but it’s valid to a lot of people. Anything that has to do with religion is valid.
If prayer box is serious, they will look for valid influencers to push the product to their congregation, they don’t need many. Just five of the jet setting, minor slapping, my God is not a poor God, miracle touting crowd will do the trick. You do be amazed. You can also throw around stories of how people’s prayers got answered after they joined the platform
Note: I am not a prayer box member, user or backer. Anything is possible, this is business…err…sorry. Religion.
Final Tots. Is it your money? Who you epp?
Lol. MoU with God.
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dude prayer box was never a valid idea and i don’t know why you trying to validate it as a good enough idea, why would i want to go dump my prayer request on some sites. and i checked the site just now, found out its dead. what happened really?
Oga. you can’t rationalize religion related matters into good ideas/bad ideas. If your premise was true, we would have very broke pastors/leaders/ Daddy GO’s.
Execution and determination to take risk were not on point. That is why its (prayerbox) dead. No promotion. If you were not on the tech scene, you nor for know wetin e be.
Why do we have so many copy and paste bloggers now? Because a copy and paste blogger has copied and pasted her way to banana island. “The mansion that launched a trillion blogs”
Na una type for laugh snapchat out of una investment meeting until them hammer. It’s never a valid idea until someone starts to profit. The turn this conversation is taking…
Dem reject una pitch for 440.ng? I detect under g painment.
first of all i am not the type of guy that laugh at peoples idea …
But then your pastors/leaders/Daddy Go’s don’t run a startup/business so you shouldn’t be comparing the two
I don’t think Execution and Determination was the problem, we have a whole lot of churches already where people can go and pray(thats if they dont want to pray silently in their office/house/‘anywhere they want’) and last time i checked @ozombo isn’t even a pastor or a catholic priest, except he has an “MOU with God to answer prayers posted on Prayerbox” as @Obi_Ik said earlier . The problem was the idea.
So you think once you slam religion on anything it automatically sells? So you think there are no broke pastors? So you think?
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Bro.
- Your daddy Go’s and daddy in the lord run businesses. Apart from the regular businesses they run, church is big business
- We have a whole lot of shops where people can buy stuff. It doesn’t stop people from buying stuff online
- We have a whole log of human beings around us that we can just walk up to and toast. Yet there is online dating
D0 you even know the USP of prayerbox? or your mind just saw prayer and you lost it? Let me help you research
Nigerian-born software developer Adebambo Oyekan Oyelaja is the founder of Prayerbox, a social networking service that allows users to share prayer points, testimonies and religious activities with friends and people from around the world. http://www.forbes.com/sites/mfonobongnsehe/2015/05/10/here-is-a-nigerian-social-network-that-allows-you-share-prayers-with-friends-and-strangers/#15af0b8c61f5
Now imagine you are a woman trying to conceive, or you are a jobless graduate looking for job for the past ten years. You can go to prayerbox to tap into the blessings that others have received in your special category of needs. You can make comments like.
- I bless the lord for you.
- I claim this as my portion and other religious jargons.
It can be a fortress of hope, a catalog of the miracles of God that you can use in arguing against that stupid atheist uncle that is destined to hellfire. e.g. Uncle kunle, see, how can you say God doesn’t exist…see how many barren etc etc etc people he is helping on prayerbox.
You can also see the nearest crusades in town. You can have fun with a geolocation module, you don’t have to get religious fliers tossed at you in traffic to know where the next miracle will be peddled. You can just go to prayer box. It most likely won’t have snapchat like growth and blow immediately just like the way linda ikeji didn’t just blow after opening a blogger profile. Imagination people! Imagination.
sample http://www.stelladimokokorkus.com/2016/10/testimony-94-from-ttc-post.html. This is episode 94 Gad dammit. See the potential? This was 5 hours ago. and it involved a simple prayer and people tapping into blessings and congratulating
Nna. I wish I can just straight out yab people sometimes. These your points get as e be. What’s this conversation about sef? Let me go and take my meds.
PS: prayerbox.co goons. I can be a chief evangelist ninja for your product if you need one. I am also a grand ui/ux master. Purple belt. 
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This guy u been dey work with Ozombo, if the idea was as valid as you say it was , it wont die no??
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Ideas die, valid or not. Execution is what he has been on about since. Read up.
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Says u…Bad ideas that turn out to be Bad Products die, even if you execute beautifully and you have a shitty product that has zero value you wont grow, end of story.
All Ozombo needs is network with one of them Daddy G.Os, make it easier for people to pay tithes directly to the church and the Pastor in turn blesses your Prayer box with anointing.
By this time next two years, Ozombo should be planning how to purchase his own Jet.
Na joke I dey oo
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