Wayzze

Wayzze is a peer-to-peer vehicle rental platform built for West Africa. Mike founded the company and worked on it full-time between February and July 2025, a six-month founding period. The domain is wayzze.com and the repository is closed source. The LinkedIn description states the goal as "a peer-to-peer car rentals platform for locals and diaspora members in French Africa countries [starting with Bénin]."

The Diaspora Thesis

The target market makes Wayzze distinct from every other product in the portfolio. Two user groups are named: locals in French-speaking African countries, and diaspora members who visit. The diaspora angle explains the economic logic: diaspora members returning to Benin or neighboring countries need transportation without owning vehicles locally, and local owners can monetize underused cars.

The choice of Benin as the launch market, combined with Mike's Yoruba Heritage|Yoruba native language, is the specificity behind the thesis. Yoruba is spoken across southwestern Nigeria and Benin. The product thesis draws directly on personal familial connection to the region rather than an abstract emerging-market bet.

Launch and Early Distribution

The platform went live around March 10, 2025, targeting Benin with planned expansion to Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal, Mali, and Guinea. Distribution ran through the Mike and Achraf network from the start. One of Achraf's cousins (30,000 Instagram followers) helped amplify Wayzze content, and another cousin was among the first users. Mike pushed TikTok videos through Achraf in April 2025, repeatedly asking him to share them: "Coucou, c'est encore moi. Veuillez partager la video svp."

A revenue-share partnership was discussed in April 2025 audio with Achraf: "Si vous voulez, on peut discuter d'un business model gagnant-gagnant. Nous (mes amis et moi) on s'occupe de la publicité. Et vous du site. Avec une part de marché." The arrangement was agreed verbally but never formalized. Card-versus-mobile-money payment splits (central to West African e-commerce) were discussed in the same period.

The Quiet Fade

Wayzze disappeared from the WhatsApp thread entirely between May and June 2025, without a shutdown message or pivot announcement. The silence coincided with Mike entering the anomalie.space Founder in Residence program on June 1. The residency's AI-agent focus absorbed Mike's attention, and the distribution arrangement with Achraf's network ceased being mentioned.

The LinkedIn position is marked as finished in July 2025. The single explicit reference to Wayzze after the fade comes nearly a year later, on April 9, 2026: "J'ai tjrs le seum de Wayzze 🥲" (I still have the blues about Wayzze). Achraf offered to revive it with capital; Mike declined, framing it as part of a Q1 2026 reset rather than an opportunity. The reference reads as unresolved regret rather than a retrospective decision.

Distinction in the Portfolio

Wayzze is the only product built for a non-European, non-global market. All other solo-founder products (KONQR, Picture AI, Pulse, Avocado, SageVox) target French or global consumer audiences. The West African focus is not a one-off but is the clearest expression of the biographical thread that also surfaces as Yoruba Heritage and, later, in Achraf's April 2026 call to "se réintéresser à l'Afrique."