An interview With Ahmed Mukoshy The Young Creative Force Behind Yarnable, And YRN.ME

Ahmed Mukoshy is a young 20 year old Nigerian serial entrepreneur who founded of Yarnable, an elegant micro-blogging platform and YRN.ME a URL shortener. Mr. Mukoshy has proven to be a creative and innovative force who eye on quality has helped to raise the bar on the implementation and design of local start-ups to a new  frontier.

We recently caught up with the young techie to get his perspective on a few topics.

TechMasai: What projects have you worked in recently in the web 2.0 sector?

Mr. Mukoshy: Well, my two major projects in the web 2.0 area are yrn.me and yarnable.com which I both built from scratch and hoping to build them to a world class standards.

TechMasai: What makes Yarnable different from other micro-blogging platforms already present?

Mr. Mukoshy: Yarnable is not just a micro-blogging tool, but also a platform allowing users to interact more specifically via related topics, just like a typical forum, you may call it a micro-social-forum based on 140 characters concept.

Yarnable allow users to find topics that interest them the most and share their thoughts in form of threads, making interaction a fabulous real-time conversation.

Yarnable will also be having additional features coming in time which I highlighted at BarCamp Nigeria 2010 in Lagos during the public beta release. Details at http://yrn.me/dp37o (BLOG)

TechMasai: What is the potential of start-ups like YRN.ME in providing value to Nigerian and the world community at large?

Mr. Mukoshy: As we all know the area of url-shorting is already crowed with brands like bitly and tinyurl. However, yrn.me was built with the aim to deliver a local feel of such service.

Yrn.me is an abbreviation of “Yarn Me”, a phrase widely used in Africa, mostly in Nigeria, meaning “Tell-Me”.

Yrn.me also sets out to compete with these major brands, even if it may not have the largest share at least it will have a share.

More features will be coming soon on the service such as statistic report and custom keywords. However, the time of release is not specific.

TechMasai: You fit the definition of a serial entrepreneur. having launched first YRN.ME and then Yarnable. Did you consciously take this approach to creating start-ups?

Mr. Mukoshy: Yes, yrn.me was built after I had began my research on building Yarnable. I pictured it in advance, since yarnable is similar to twitter (limited to 140 characters) a url-shortner will be a necessity.

Today, Yarnable utilizes yrn.me via its API which any developer can use to remotely shorten urls too.

TechMasai: What lies in the future of Mr. Ahmad Mukoshy, the serial entrepreneur?

Mr. Mukoshy: I see a brighter future to my start-ups, more especially due to the never-ending passion I have on them. I will develop both Yarnable and Yrn.me to a higher standard with employing additional developers to make the journey a smooth one.

I also love building new brands, new start-ups. So, I might be building more and more web applications to come.

Note: To learn more about Mr. Ahmed Mukoshy you can visit his blog, or Twitter Page.