Tobiloba Sulaimon (AuTrans) Transcribing Video/Audio For African Languages

Jeremy Rivera sits down with Tobiloba Sulaimon, a self-taught software developer from Lagos, Nigeria, who built AllTrans — an audio-transcription SaaS that actually understands African languages like Yoruba and Igbo, where tools like Otter and Fireflies drop them as "noise." It's a candid founder story: solving your own problem, staying "African first," and resisting scope creep on the road from a weekend side project to a real product with its first paying customers.
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▎ ⏱️ Chapters
▎ 00:00 Meet Tobiloba & AllTrans
▎ 00:22 Transcription that understands African languages (Yoruba, Igbo)
▎ 02:07 The "secret recipe" engine — keeping every language as-spoken
▎ 03:39 Why so much of the ML world flows through English
▎ 05:54 The origin story: a meeting the tools couldn't transcribe
▎ 08:00 From personal tool to public SaaS — "African first"
▎ 10:49 The scope-creep trap: horizon
▎ 12:15 Jeremy's Raven Tools cautionary tale
▎ 14:37 Self-taught from Lagos: HTML/
▎ 17:00 Mentorship, X exposure & his first client gig
▎ 20:40 First dev role at a game stud
▎ 23:39 Building AllTrans in a weekend; launching Nov 10
▎ 24:57 ~100 users and the first payi
▎ 25:43 Selling a real cure for a real pain point
▎ 27:19 The roadmap: mobile apps, mor
▎ 31:35 Wrap-up
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▎ In this episode
▎ • Why mainstream transcription tool
▎ • Choosing a narrow vertical (one country's languages) before expanding
▎ • Avoiding scope creep with a smallp
▎ • Going from self-taught to shipping a SaaS in ~2 years
▎ • What's next: Android/iOS apps, ~1
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▎ AllTrans
▎ Website: https://alltrends.online ⟵ verify exact URL/spelling before publishing
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