Afro Dev 🇪🇹🧑💻
Bilal Shemsu ships practical software, then opens the hood: AI gateways, Go tools, student platforms, and a Markdown editor that went from v1.0 to a proper Windows installer.
PHP/Laraevl + Next.Js + Experment on Golang Share coding skills, AI breakthroughs, and practical solutions to real-world problems. Lets colab: @bilalshemsu Who am I: bilalshemsu.pro.et BUILDR-Z5CARA
Bilal Shemsu runs a fast-moving builder channel across PHP/Laravel, Go, TypeScript, and AI. Afro Dev mixes launches with useful experiments: a multi-provider AI Gateway, a local Amharic speech-to-text test, an offline Telegram agent, and education tools such as Addis Entrance Hub.
Bilal builds in public across PHP/Laravel, Go, TypeScript, and AI. They favour small releases, real production tests, open-source repositories, and quick follow-up iterations: AI Gateway received compatibility, security, documentation, and model-list updates, while Markit gained a proper Windows installer.
- The channel has collected 496 posts so far.
- The current posting streak is 31 weeks.
- There are 15 projects mentioned, with 13 marked as shipped.
- English makes up 85% of text posts.
The journey.
- Apr – May 2026
- Jun – Jul 2026
- Aug – Sep 2026
Agents, Platforms, and Campus Maps
The projects became more ambitious and more local: AI Gateway gained OpenAI compatibility and model discovery, TG-Echo was rebuilt as a local Telegram agent, and ASTU Map began digitizing campus paths. The channel also shipped wappajs for WhatsApp-based LLM agents.
Sources#1102#1143#1158#1212 - Oct 2026
Building now.
ASTU Map
BuildingASTU Map is being built around the campus’s real walkways and shortcuts, with routing still being improved.
DevDrill
BuildingDevDrill is coming as an offline desktop app for LeetCode and coding interview practice on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
- MD Editor
A fast, distraction-free Markdown editor for Windows built with JS, Go, and Wails.
Launched13 postsJun 2026Visit - Markit
A product for reading or managing Markdown files.
Launched11 postsJun 2026 – Oct 2026Visit - Addis Entrance Hub
An education platform for students in Ethiopia featuring an AI tutor.
Launched11 postsJun 2026 – Oct 2026Visit - TeleAds
An advertising platform for Telegram with a simplified checkout flow.
Launched8 postsOct 2026– - AI Gateway
A single API gateway providing access to multiple AI providers to manage token costs.
Launched7 postsJul 2026 – Sep 2026Visit - PharmaSys
A pharmacy management system designed to handle medicine suppliers and transformations.
Launched5 postsMay 2026 – Jun 2026– - WegChat
A chat application built with TypeScript.
Launched3 postsJul 2026Visit - promo-video-remotion
A video editing skill/tool built using Remotion.
Launched3 postsOct 2026Visit - TG-Echo
A personalized Telegram AI agent that mimics the user's communication style using RAG.
Launched3 postsAug 2026Visit - Exam Hub
An educational resource platform for exams.
Launched2 postsAug 2026Visit - wappajs
An open-source TypeScript framework for creating LLM agents on WhatsApp.
Launched1 postsSep 2026Visit - Check.et
A payment gateway integration service to simplify checkout flows for developers.
Launched1 postsJun 2026Visit - PAAS
Profile As A Software.
Launched1 postsMay 2026–
Start here.
- 01
The clearest example of turning a recurring developer problem into an open-source tool.
Tired of this? 😩 ❌ Gemini: "Quota exceeded" ❌ OpenRouter: "Rate limit" ❌ Mistral: "Timeout" ❌ OpenCodeZen: "Error" Switching between 5 APIs all day... So...
Jul 10, 2026680 views - 02
The first MD Editor release, with the stack, features, and reason for building it.
🚀 MD Editor v1.0.0 First Release I built a fast, distraction-free Markdown editor for Windows using JS + Go + Wails. Simple, native, and actually usable for...
Jun 26, 20261.1K views - 03
An unusually honest rebuild story about making TG-Echo local and technically sound.
🚀 TG-Echo is now open source A while back I posted about building a Telegram AI that feels more like me: deep personalization, RAG on my own chat history, try...
Aug 18, 2026651 views - 04
The origin of ASTU Map and the real navigation problem it is designed to solve.
Starting university can be confusing. New buildings, unfamiliar roads, and a large campus make it easy to get lost. 🥵 You may be told to go to the registrar’s...
Sep 12, 2026927 views - 05
A sharp product iteration: TeleAds cuts campaign creation from about eight minutes to under 30 seconds.
❗️Update. We removed the checkout page from TeleAds. Our first version worked like typical SaaS: register, browse packages, fill creative forms, pay by bank...
Oct 24, 202643 views
In their own words.
Coming from a PHP/Laravel background, learning Go!
the TypeScript generator is officially completed ✅
Fresh from the channel.
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I continued experimenting with the skill I built on top of Remotion, and the results amazed me every time. https://github.com/bilalshemsu1/promo-video-remotion 🔥Anyone try it?
😳Its looks AI models start challenging human intelligence.
Bilal Shemsu on Buildr @AfroCoders
Afro Dev 🇪🇹🧑💻 pinned «Last night I was struggling to edit a promo video, and I got annoyed enough to try a different idea. What if, instead of editing it myself, I give the AI what it needs? So I built a video editing skill, a set of my...
🔥 oh. i didn't even expect this... 🥶 Skill: https://github.com/bilalshemsu1/promo-video-remotion @AfroDevs