Mumo: Codeless Web Design Is Make Me Icons' Most Popular Course
Tony Mumo · First time Kenyan Founder Uses $1.50 FB Ads to Get First 100 Users, 64 DAU · Nov 3, 2023 · at 2:21
Tony Mumo, founder of Make Me Icons, explains user demand and why codeless web design is popular among Kenyan students.
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“Today our most popular class is web design skills, and this because in Kenya technology is really evolving, and there's a lot of interest in websites, in software, so codeless web design is the best place for someone to start their journey, especially if they don't know coding, because for me, codeless web design, it was my first attempt to building platforms, so codeless web design is a hot course in Kenya.”
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