I think we are talking about two things here:
- Gidiapps want to create a directory of local apps “to help discovery”
- @lordbanks is asking if there are good Nigerian apps out there/Nigerian apps people use (to make the experiment worth it?)
1, I see nothing wrong with the experiment really. Honestly, app discovery currently sucks. A place where I can go and discover “Nigerian apps” is not a bad idea.
2, The question of Nigerian apps brings back the question of “decent”. I think decent is relative. Decent can mean being useful and not just good UX. For example, I don’t find the GTBank mobile app aesthetic. It is slow and buggy. But I use it always because I have no other option.
Where I am driving at is that if we judge decent by use and not by that perfect mix of aesthetics and relevance, then there are lots of “Nigerian apps” people use. I’ve met someone who told me the Amebo app is a part of his everyday life. This is just as Uber is to @lordbanks - same Uber I have never used. None of us probably have the Channels TV app installed but it has 500k - 1m downloads in Play store. That this apps are poorly designed or we don’t use them doesn’t mean others don’t. But then, if we are talking decent in terms of wide appeal, relevance and aesthetics, yes, there is not a lot of that.