Codefactory

Online coding academy for children

Epitaph

“Here lies Code Factory. It taught Accra's under-17s Scratch, Python and robotics under the wing of a large Ghanaian conglomerate. Nobody wrote a closing notice. The school that taught children to build for the web let its own domain expire.”

Overview

Born: Unknown
Died: September 2022 (Month)
Fate: Dormant
Headquarters: 🇬🇭 Ghana
Category: EdTech
Primary cause: Unknown

Death certificate

Timeline

11 September 2022Last archived capture
The Internet Archive's final snapshot of codefactorygh.com. Re-querying the availability API against a later timestamp returns this same September 2022 capture, so nothing has been archived since.
2 August 2026Domain gone
Google Public DNS returns NXDOMAIN for codefactorygh.com and www.codefactorygh.com. No closure notice, final-cohort announcement or press mention was ever published.

Autopsy report

Why did Codefactory shut down?

Code Factory Ghana was an Accra-based online coding academy for children under 17, set up by the ICTgroup cluster of the Jospong Group of Companies. It taught Scratch, Python, HTML and CSS, robotics and artificial intelligence. The most recent Wayback Machine capture of its website, codefactorygh.com, is from September 2022; no announcement of a closure was found.

What Codefactory attempted

An online academy teaching programming to minors, with a curriculum covering Scratch coding, Python, HTML and CSS, robotics and artificial intelligence. Stated outcomes were that students could build websites and games, automate processes and analyse data. It was run by trained instructors and curriculum developers drawn from software engineering, telecommunications and business development.

What happened

Its domain is gone: on 2 August 2026 Google Public DNS returned NXDOMAIN for both codefactorygh.com and www.codefactorygh.com, with only the .com TLD SOA in the authority section. The Internet Archive's most recent capture of the site remains 11 September 2022, and re-querying the availability API against a July 2026 timestamp returned the same September 2022 snapshot, confirming nothing has been captured since. No closure notice, final-cohort announcement or press mention of any kind exists.

Lessons for future builders

Corporate parentage funds a launch without guaranteeing that anyone inside will defend the line item. A venture that disappears without a closing notice usually had no owner senior enough to have to explain it.