Who we are
Nsa is a real-time interactive engagement platform designed for classrooms, boardrooms, churches, and celebrations. We believe the best learning and connection happens when people are having fun.
Our mission
We build infrastructure for real-time human connection — games, polls, word clouds, quizzes, and more. Our technology is designed to handle thousands of concurrent players without breaking a sweat, so hosts can focus on the people in the room, not the software running it.
Founded
2026
Uyo, Nigeria
Built for
500+
concurrent players per session
Game types
12+
and growing
The studio
Nsa is built by Kovo Labs, a software studio focused on real-time systems and community technology. We are rooted in African play culture — "Nsa" is an Ibibio word meaning "game" — and believe technology should be joyful, fast, and inclusive.
Our stack is intentionally powerful: a Rust + Axum WebSocket backend capable of sustaining millions of concurrent connections, paired with a React + TypeScript frontend built for speed and clarity.
What we believe
Speed is respect
When someone is mid-game with 300 players in the room, latency is not an option. We engineer for real-time.
Joy first
Every design decision starts with: does this make the host's life easier and the players' experience more fun?
African by design
Our games and aesthetic are shaped by the communal, high-energy play traditions of West Africa and the continent.
Trust through simplicity
No app downloads. No passwords. No friction. You share a code; everyone joins. That's it.
Free to start. No credit card. No app download. Just a code and a room full of people.