This past weekend, Q-munity hosted our first-ever Hack-Q-Thon. But, the Hack-Q-Thon has been in the works from November 2019. 

Originally, Q-munity was meant to be an annual hackathon for high school students to learn quantum computing. Unfortunately, our original event was cancelled due to the sudden breakout of COVID-19. 

Luckily, we decided to do workshops to replace the Hack-Q-Thon and after seeing the support we got, we made Q-munity a company.

The piece of paper above was the plan we wrote out for it at the back table of a quantum computing conference. It's crazy to see how far we've grown the community since then. 

For several months now, I've been working on building Mwana, an app to increase exclusive breastfeeding rates throughout Nigeria.

As I've been working on building this, we faced increasing difficulty with securing funding. Mwana itself isn't profitable. The app is meant to be free for mothers. In terms of grants, those always ran out and grant-funder

Bottom line: it wasn't sustainable.

Recently, we've pivoted to create Bridge. Bridge is a platform for hospitals to optimize their care for patients. 

Hospitals get access to patient monitoring, customized care packages, and on-demand training for their practice. In addition, our service handles the bulk of their patient requests so they have more time to focus on what really matters.

We're still working on getting mothers access to breastfeeding support, we simply increased the scope of our app to make it more valuable towards a payer.

Our plan is to sell the platform to hospitals across Africa at low costs. This way, we're realizing our impact of assisting mothers everywhere but in a sustainable manner. 

Over the past few weeks, I've brought on a team member to help with clinical research and two SWEs to help build the platform. More updates coming soon 👀👀