Edukoya wound down in early 2025. It raised about $3.5 million pre-seed; by 2024 net liabilities were near £511,000. Nigerian EdTech still runs into uneven power, devices, and data cost. Many ten-year-olds here score low on basic literacy and numeracy. A common app pattern makes it worse: miss once, get a zero, then avoid hard questions. That trains caution more than depth.
FailFast awards Success Points when you answer correctly and Fail Points when you keep trying after a miss.
Why wrong tries still earn
Someone who pushes through to the explanation can land 25 total points on a question. Someone who guesses right on the first try stops at 20. The extra five are for seeing the full walkthrough.
A world where failing is the first step to knowing.
Below: how those points split per question.
That layout is on purpose. The highest totals go to people who finish to the reveal, not people who bounce after one wrong answer.
Ranks you prove
You climb from Rookie toward Grand Master by showing real skill, not by farming easy items. Tier jumps check where your points came from:
- Skilled to Expert: at least 40% of points from Intermediate difficulty or harder.
- Expert to Master: half from Advanced or harder.
- Master to Grand Master: half from university-level pools.
When paid stakes switch on, stake bands follow rank. Rough guide:
- Rookie: 0 SP, free practice only.
- Skilled: 5,000 SP; stakes about ₦500 to ₦5,000.
- Expert: 15,000 SP; about ₦5,001 to ₦15,000.
- Master: 35,000 SP; about ₦15,001 to ₦35,000.
- Grand Master: 70,000 SP; about ₦35,001 to ₦70,000.
A Master cannot drop stakes low enough to pull only Rookie-level questions. That blocks high-rank players from hogging soft pools.
Bandwidth
Live tutoring over video burns about a gigabyte an hour. At rough 2026 mobile prices that is hundreds of naira per session. Starlink hardware near ₦590,000 is out of reach for most families. FailFast keeps a practice session under about 10 MB, less than many news pages. Text-first beats always-on video if you need reach across all thirty-six states.
Schools and exams
Parents care about JAMB, WAEC, and hireability. FailFast EDU sells school-wide checks near ₦750 per student per term (order of half a US dollar). Billing tracks real account start dates so schools cannot mass-delete users right before an invoice.
Teachers
Verified questions used in paid runs pay the people who wrote them. Adventurer Mode lets experts upload PDFs; an automated pipeline turns them into drills. School admins cannot dip into teacher wallets. Platform share on that slice caps at five percent.
Skill, not a draw
Results follow accuracy and time, not random draws. FailFast charges a flat ten percent on pools either way. Early access may use gift-style credit so regulators can read usage before cash wallets open.
A zero on the scoreboard used to mean stop. Here it is one step toward the explanation. That is the shift the product is built around.