As developers/hackers, we usually pay a lot of attention to writing and optimizing our code. We also have plenty of side projects that we contribute to in our spare time, but not many of them grow to become valuable startups solving customer problems across different markets at scale. This talk explores how African developers can transition from building random side projects, to building potential startups that can scale in the market. This practice is something that has greatly contributed to Silicon Valley, and we can replicate it in Africa. How to build build something people want, and go from code to market.