Portrait of Augustus Shaminga

Augustus Shaminga · Founder, openChow

I'm building openChow,
so no one has to beg to eat.

Full-stack developer based in Port Harcourt. Founder of openChow, under Tuberway LTD.

Sponsor a meal → Read my story ↓

My story

I know hunger personally.

There was a season of my life when my next meal was never guaranteed. I've been on the receiving side of the counter.

openChow is the help I once looked for and couldn't find, built so the next hungry person doesn't have to search for it.

That's why 100% of every donation becomes food. Why every naira is public. And why I'll keep building this, whether it's trending or not.

What I'm building

openChow

"Buy a meal online. Leave it on the counter."

openChow is a meal-sponsorship platform. Anyone can buy a meal online, and a local food vendor (a mama-put) serves it free to someone hungry in their community.

  1. 01

    You sponsor a meal: pay online, from anywhere.

  2. 02

    A local mama-put cooks it: real food, real vendor, real kitchen.

  3. 03

    Someone hungry eats, free. No forms, no shame, just a plate.

100% of every donation goes to food.

openChow runs a live public transparency board: every naira donated, paid out to vendors, and held in escrow, computed straight from the ledger. Anyone can audit it, anytime.

openChow · ledger snapshot

Meals funded101+
Meals served75+
Donors~30
Featured onNTA Port Harcourt
Cut taken₦0.00

Launched mid-2026 · figures updated live on the transparency board

Sponsor a meal on openChow → View the transparency board ↗

Who's behind this

Tuberway LTD

Tuberway is my registered Nigerian company: deliberately not an NGO, built to move fast and sustain itself, with radical transparency instead of bureaucracy. Everything I build lives here.

Live · openchow.ng

openChow

A meal-sponsorship platform. Buy a meal online, and a local mama-put serves it free to someone hungry.

Live-event activation

Reflex Tile

A branded PWA reflex game, built as a live-event marketing activation for two Nigerian brands.

Get in touch

hello@shaminga.com @shamingaa on X

Open to CSR partnerships, sponsors, and press.