We design digital products that last.
Studio based in Cotonou, operating across European and West African markets. Five years of experience, five projects in production, three SaaS in pipeline.
Our story in brief.
Alinkka was born from a simple observation. Back in 2018, across West Africa, most web projects shipped to SMBs and institutions were WordPress assemblages billed at platform prices — and abandoned twelve months in for lack of architecture designed to last. We started by shipping what was missing: clean, tested, documented code that survives framework upgrades and that any serious developer can pick up.
Over the years and the projects — Pro-Moving CH in Switzerland, MEMP and the Court of Audit in Benin, Let's Go Gym for 2,000+ users — one conviction took hold: the boundary between European and West African markets is more porous than people think. Stripe and MTN Mobile Money, EUR and CFA, GDPR and local laws — all of this can coexist in a well-designed platform. The challenge isn't technical, it's organizational.
Today, Alinkka operates as a digital products studio: custom work for clients who need it, and proprietary products (INVOXA, MBOAMARKET, DOKLINK, plus a collection of technical ebooks) that materialize what we know how to do. The goal isn't to scale fast. The goal is to ship, over five to ten years, products we're proud of and that pay off both for our clients and for us.
Our stack.
Not an exhaustive list — only technologies in production on client or proprietary projects. Every addition gets serious testing before adoption.
Backend
Frontend
Infrastructure
Payments
Tooling
A few milestones that mattered.
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2024 — present — Cotonou
Founding the studio
Formal launch of Alinkka as a digital products studio. Three proprietary SaaS in pipeline (INVOXA for cross-market invoicing, MBOAMARKET for mobile-first commerce, DOKLINK for document management), five technical ebooks in production, custom work for SMBs and institutions.
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2022 — 2024 — Switzerland · remote
Pro-Moving CH
24-month maintenance and evolution of a Swiss multi-site platform. Gradual migration from a legacy PHP base to Laravel, UX overhaul, EU payment integrations. Confirmation that our delivery cycles work 4,000 km away.
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2023 — Benin
MEMP & Court of Audit
Successive delivery of two major institutional sites: the portal of the Ministry of Pre-school and Primary Education (MEMP), then the Court of Audit. Document architecture, GDPR compliance, sovereign hosting.
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2024 — Benin · multi-city
Let's Go Gym
Multi-tenant SaaS platform for gym management. 2,000+ active members, 300+ paying recurring subscribers, 12 modules shipped in 3 months. First project where Stripe and MTN Mobile Money coexist in the same architecture.
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Since 2018 — Benin · Switzerland · Europe
Five years on the ground
Before the studio, years of assignments under various structures (Wimtec, GAFASS, Global IT NET) which tested both solo work and distributed teamwork. That's where the current stance was forged: engineer-grade rigor, radical transparency, refusal of patchwork.
Our studio brochure.
Twenty pages detailing who we are, how we work, what our services cost, and our five quantified case studies. Ideal to forward to a procurement committee or a partner who wants to dig before the first call.
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