My new talking stage might be a prank, help!

Hello!

I am writing this email by 3:18 am, I have just finished replying my latest talking stage, and here is what The Garage looks like:

How are you?

I have been thinking about you, a few things have happened since the last time I wrote you, and I can’t wait to tell you all about it.

TechNext featured us!

Ejike Kanife of TechNext, a leading Tech Media company in Africa, reached out to us last week, expressing their interest in telling our story to their million person audience, and we couldn’t say no.

I spoke to him about our story, journey, and our mission, as well as my personal life (yes, being single). I highlighted the tremendous impact of your support in our journey so far, and how grateful we were to have you as part of our family.

Blown.

While Ejike left out some important parts of our story, such as my single life, in this publication, we are grateful to have our story told on one of the largest tech platforms on the continent, and it strengthens our commitment towards supporting Africa’s next million student remote workers.

A cool streak…

3 weeks ago, we opened The Garage to our first visitors, and we made it clear that our goal was to provide 24/7 access to work infrastructure to our users.

In the early days, we struggled to make good on this promise, as a concatenation of factors meant that we couldn’t consistently sustain night operations for every day of the week.

As you would expect, we attacked these challenges head on, and while we’re very much still a work in progress, it gladdens my heart to say that for the 10th day in a row, our guests have had access to The Garage for 24 hours a day.

Its a pretty cool number for us, and I can’t wait to see these numbers grow exponentially in the coming weeks.

Thank you!

The Garage wouldn’t exist without the support of our amazing onsite and virtual communities. Everyday, I am overwhelmed with the outpouring of love, support and kind consideration from all of you, and I just wanted to say that we’re all super grateful for that.

We’re going to keep working hard to be deserving of all of this love, and to prove to the rest of the world that your early faith is us was not misguided.

Today, I’d like to specially shout out two amazing persons, and extend our gratitude for their amazing support.

Praise and Emmanuel have turned The Garage to their second home, having been here for 67% of ALL our operating hours.

That is AMAZING on all levels and we are super blessed to enjoy their support.

We need you!

We’re on a mission to support the next million remote workers in Nigeria with key infrastructure that makes working hard easy for them. This is a long, excruciating journey, and we cannot do it without you.

Your support has brought us this far, and we need you even more now. Tell your friends about the work we’re doing, share our story, share our links. More importantly, refer me to your beautiful, single, and rich friends.

To conclude…

I’m in my first talking stage for December, and I have a problem - Its been going well so far. She is female, responds to my texts within 8 hours (that’s the normal average response time, RIGHT?), she has smiled at me twice so far.

I suspect that she’s an elaborate prank by my friends to raise my hopes and possibly get me to fall in love, before serving me breakfast, because this feels too good to be true.

I need ideas on the best ways to test out my hypothesis before its too late and I go ring shopping. Please reply this email with all your cool ideas on ways to test this new talking stage of mine. I’m counting on you.

Thank youuuu.

Have a great day and an even better week.

Love you.

Ray.