Meet Nigerian Brothers, Osine, 13, & Anesi, 15, Who Built A Mobile Web Broswer

Osine, 13, and Anesi Ikhianosime, 15, are Year 9 and 11 secondary school students. The duo have joined the league of application developers as they built a mobile web browser, ‘Crocodile Browser Lite’ which is now in use globally. While both brothers write code, Anesi designs the user interface.

The tech wizards began developing the Android web browser about a year ago out of boredom and launched the it on the Mobango app store. Subsequently, they moved it to Google Play Store to achieve a wider audience.

The browser currently has around 100 to 500 downloads and they do not have ads in the app yet.

Speaking to TechCabal, the brothers said their strong interest  in technology lead them to create a functional, fast browser for feature and low end phones. In their words, “We were fed up with Google Chrome.”

Osine’s interest in computers began at age seven. It was also at this age that he and his brother, Anesi, who was 9 at the time, came up with the idea of starting a company.

Recalling how it started, Osine said, they first named it ‘Doors’ with Microsoft’s Windows, but when they discovered that the name was already in use, they had to change the name to BluDoors. Relating his experience, Osine said: “When we decided to learn to code at age 12 and 14 respectively, I didn’t let my uncle’s belief that it would be a tough feat to achieve deter me.”

On his part, Anesi said: “I learnt to code by myself. I started in 2013, I used sites like Code Academy, Code Avengers and books like ‘Android for Game Development’ and ‘Games for Dummies”

Their mum, Mrs Ngozi Ikhianosime, a Mathematics teacher said: “Osine could already use a PC before he could read at age three. It is all he does since he learnt to code.”

Anesi says he’d like to develop another app that solves real social problems, such as traffic and communication.