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Financial Compliance: OHADA 10-Year Retention Rules

How OHADA's 10-year document retention rules shaped 0fee.dev's deletion policy and archive system. By Juste A. Gnimavo and Claude.

10 min Mar 27, 2026
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Merging the Marketing Website Into the Frontend

How we merged 0fee.dev's separate marketing website into the frontend app, going from 3 services to 2 with 3-layout routing.

8 min Mar 27, 2026
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WHMCS, WordPress, and WooCommerce Plugins

How we built 3 platform plugins for 0fee.dev -- WHMCS, WordPress, and WooCommerce -- plus downloadable code samples in 5 languages. By Juste A. Gnimavo.

12 min Mar 27, 2026
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Security Audit: What We Found and How We Fixed It

A transparent look at the security weaknesses we found in 0fee.dev and the systematic fixes we applied. By Juste A. Gnimavo and Claude.

10 min Mar 27, 2026
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Building 8 SDKs With Zero Human Engineers

How we built 8 SDKs in 7 languages plus 3 platform plugins for 0fee.dev with zero human engineers. By Juste A. Gnimavo and Claude.

8 min Mar 27, 2026
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The Pricing Evolution: From Tiers to 0.99%

How 0fee.dev's pricing evolved from 3 tiers to a flat 0.99% fee with no monthly charges and infinite credit. By Juste A. Gnimavo.

8 min Mar 27, 2026
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What's Next for 0fee.dev

The roadmap for 0fee.dev: subscriptions, payouts, dispute management, more African providers, and multi-currency wallets. By Juste A. Gnimavo.

9 min Mar 27, 2026
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Seven SDKs in Seven Languages

How we built 7 SDKs for 0fee.dev in TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, PHP, Java, and C# across two sessions. By Juste A. Gnimavo and Claude.

8 min Mar 27, 2026
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WAL Race Conditions and SQLite Lessons

The WAL mode race conditions that plagued 0fee.dev's SQLite database and ultimately pushed us to PostgreSQL. By Juste A. Gnimavo.

8 min Mar 27, 2026
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Amount Display Bugs: When 5 USD Shows as 0.05

The amount display bugs that plagued 0fee.dev: wrong divisions, integer vs float, and how we fixed them across 50+ files. By Juste A. Gnimavo.

8 min Mar 27, 2026
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16 Commands in One Day: The Complete CLI Story

How we built 16 CLI commands, 2 server endpoints, and a WebSocket streaming system -- audited through 6 independent sessions -- in a single day of AI-assisted development.

10 min Mar 27, 2026
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PawaPay: Pan-African Mobile Money for 21+ Countries

How 0fee.dev integrates PawaPay's hosted payment page for mobile money across 21+ African countries with correspondent codes.

9 min Mar 27, 2026
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