Four weeks building and deploying USSD menus for mobile money, feature-phone services and telco-integrated applications.
USSD Application Development is a focused, practical track for building the menu-driven services that still power mobile money, agent banking and feature-phone access across much of East Africa. You'll learn how USSD sessions work, how to design usable text menus, and how to integrate with telco gateways like Africa's Talking.
By the end of four weeks, you'll have built and deployed a working USSD application — a skill that's in constant demand from fintech and telco-adjacent companies in the region.
How USSD sessions, prompts and state work under the hood.
Designing clear, usable text-based menu structures.
Connecting your app to gateways like Africa's Talking.
Deploying and testing a live USSD service end-to-end.
Short and extremely practical. I built a working savings-group USSD app for a client the same month I finished.
A niche but valuable skill. Brian's telco background made the integration section far clearer than any tutorial I'd tried before.
