Mu myaka ya 2000, isi yari itangiye gusonza ikoranabuhanga rifasha abantu kuganira mu buryo bworoshye, bitabaye ngombwa gukoresha amafaranga menshi mu butumwa bugufi cyangwa mu guhamagara. Muri icyo gihe ni bwo abahanga babiri — Brian Acton na Jan Koum — bari batuye muri Leta Zunze Ubumwe za Amerika, bagize igitekerezo cyahinduye uburyo isi ivugana.

Jan Koum yavukiye muri Ukraine, avukira mu muryango ukennye cyane. Yimukiye muri Amerika akiri umwana, aho ubuzima bwari bugoranye cyane ku buryo we na nyina bageragezaga kubaho batishimye. Ariko yari afite inzozi: kumenya mudasobwa no gukora ikintu cyafasha abantu kuvugana bitagoranye. Mu myaka yakurikiyeho, yakoranye na Brian Acton mu kigo Yahoo!, aho bombi bakoraga mu bijyanye n’ikoranabuhanga n’ubutumwa bwo kuri internet.

Nyuma y’imyaka irenga icumi bakorana muri Yahoo, bombi barambiwe akazi ka buri munsi katari kigisha byinshi. Mu 2007, bafashe icyemezo cyo kugerageza ibishya. Bagiye gusaba akazi muri Facebook ariko baranzwe. Uwo munsi byabababaje cyane, ariko ntabwo bahagaritse inzozi zabo. Ibi byaje kuba intangiriro y’igitangaza kitazibagirana.

Mu 2009, Jan Koum yagize igitekerezo cyo gukora application ifasha abantu kuvugana no kumenyesha aho bari, mu buryo bwihuse kandi butagoranye. Icyo gihe, yari afite iPhone ye, yibaza ukuntu yagira application yandika “status” zigaragaza uko umuntu ameze cyangwa ibyo arimo gukora. Icyo gitekerezo cyaje guhinduka WhatsApp, izina rikomoka ku ijambo “What’s Up?” bisobanura ngo “Bimeze bite?”

Kugira ngo iki gitekerezo gishyirwe mu bikorwa, yifashishije Brian Acton, bombi bakora version ya mbere y’iyo application ariko ntiyakunze kuko yakoraga nabi. Byageze aho Jan ashaka kubireka. Ariko inshuti ye Acton aramuhumuriza, amubwira ko bagomba gukomeza kuko “nta kintu kinini kizavuka bitabayeho kugerageza inshuro nyinshi.” Iryo jambo ryaje kubahindurira amateka.

Muri 2010, WhatsApp yari imaze gutangira gukundwa ku isi yose. Uburyo bworoshye bwo kohereza ubutumwa ku buntu, bwohereza amafoto n’amajwi, byatumye abantu batangira kuyikoresha cyane, cyane cyane mu bihugu byari bifite ikiguzi cyo kohereza SMS gihenze.

Uko abantu bayikundaga, niko abashoramari batangiye kuyitaho. Mu myaka mike, WhatsApp yari imaze kugira abarenga 400 miliyoni bayikoresha buri kwezi. Ibi byatumye mu 2014, Facebook igura WhatsApp ku mafaranga y’akataraboneka — $19 miliyari z’amadolari ya Amerika — mu gihe yari imwe mu ma-application adafite no kwamamaza.

Uyu munsi, WhatsApp ifite abasaga 2.5 miliyari bayikoresha ku isi yose. Abayitangije, Jan Koum na Brian Acton, bahindutse abaherwe bakomeye cyane, ariko igisigaye mu mateka ni uburyo bakoze ibintu batagamije indonke gusa, ahubwo bashaka guhindura uburyo abantu bavugana.

Isomo rikomeye WhatsApp itanga ni iri:
👉 Inzozi zibyara ikintu gikomeye iyo uzishyizemo umutima n’ubwitange.
👉 Gutsindwa rimwe ntibivuze ko utakaje amahirwe, ahubwo bishobora kuba ari intangiriro y’ubutunzi bwawe.
👉 Tekereza ku kibazo gihari, ushake uko wakemura, si ngombwa kugira amafaranga menshi kugira ngo utangire — ugomba kugira igitekerezo gikomeye.