19-year-old software developer, Robinson Honour, after enduring endless hours of failed and problematic deployments, did what many didn’t do: He built a solution for it.

Just like how Stripe’s founders decided to end the nightmare of payment integrations faced by developers.

Software development is never complete without deployment. Imagine me writing this piece and not publishing it?

However, despite how important deployment is to software development, it is still problematic for lots of developers.

“Imagine dealing with development bugs, and after debugging all those, you now have to deal with a problematic deployment that stretches your sanity, makes clients angry, and in some cases, makes you lose budgeted money?”

Many developers can relate to this. I have a friend who, when starting as a website developer, lost more than he gained, because as a Nigerian, there were challenges to deployments, from hidden charges caused by foreign exchange eating into the money he was to be paid, to clients who gave short deadlines, and many deployment platforms having one restriction or the other on Nigerians.

What is Pxxl?

Pxxl is a deployment platform that makes deployments super easy. So easy that you can literally create your first ever software and deploy on Pxxl without having to deal with how all those deployment technologies work.

The platform offers flexibility in deployment style, versatility with software technologies, and overall simplicity, enhanced by its UI, which has been praised for being intuitive by designers and developers alike.

In the words of Honour, the founder,

"I wasn’t trying to be a founder. I was just trying to deploy my site… without stress. Hi, I’m Honour, and I’m 19. For the past year, I’ve been quietly building something that I wish existed — a hosting platform that doesn’t overwhelm you, drain your pocket, or make you feel like you need a DevOps degree just to go live. It’s called @pxxl_space, and it’s for developers who just want clarity. No cluttered dashboards. No hidden fees. Just clean, instant deployment with pricing that makes sense, especially if you’re just starting out. I built this because I got tired of the noise. Hosting should be calm. It should be fast. It should feel like flying, not fighting. On July 11, Pxxl goes live, and I hope it gives you the peace of mind to build what you’ve been dreaming of. See you at launch. - Robinson Honour, Founder, PXXL."

Uniqueness?

Just like how Honour decided to end the endless nightmare associated with deploying his sites, Pxxl is building a platform that, unlike others, is simply simple, easy to use, and without hidden meanderings.

With Pxxl, users are assured that they get exactly what they see.

No promises of 24/7 uptimes, even though Pxxl has a near-perfect uptime like every top-rated platform out there, no excessive charges, while also offering a special discount for student developers.

With strong features and affordable hosting, Pxxl aims to transfer the power of deployments back to developers with deployment and hosting that doesn’t stress them.

It comes with support for API integration for deploying and managing deployments directly from the terminal, support for several languages, databases, and more than 5 extensions.

What does the future look like for Pxxl?

Ever since their official launch in July 2025, Pxxl, currently not backed by any VC, has independently grown at a steady rate.

As of the time of writing this article, Pxxl has recorded close to 2,000 active users from organic growth, which translates to 1.7k projects deployed on Pxxl, totalling 2.6 million build minutes.

Pxxl also lets users create databases of different technologies, and so far, over 260 DBs have been created.

For revenue, Pxxl has seen significant interest in user subscriptions; within 24 hours of internal testing, over NGN 86k was paid in subscriptions.

With some people paying for one year at a time. This indicates a strong interest from developers, all from organic and word-of-mouth marketing.

As a platform built by a developer to solve developers' problems, we believe that Pxxl will keep being here, innovating, and building new stuff.

Closing

This Nigerian startup is steadily solving a problem thousands of developers face, while quietly onboarding and helping them overcome it. What makes Pxxl’s approach stand out is how focused it is on practicality rather than hype.

The team is refining a solution that actually works — one that meets developers where they are and simplifies the everyday struggles that come with building and maintaining digital products. If its current momentum continues, Pxxl might soon become one of the most useful homegrown tools in the developer ecosystem.