r/KenyaStartups

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LADIES. WOULD YOU BUY LAND AND WAIT, OR BUY AN APARTMENT AND EARN.? KEEPING IN MIND THE LOCATION IS MALINDI...

Malindi has been flourishing of late and LAND is still affordable going at Ksh. 2M per acre in Misufini (10 minutes drive from Malindi Town), you can buy now and wait (or subdivide for investment). Also AIRBNB business is booming with new RESIDENTIAL APARTMENTS being built for that purpose. Getting a 2 Bedroom apartment, fully furnished with AC and Swimming pool and Gym being just 5 minutes walking distance to Lawford's Beach, for only Ksh. 9.5M

Which one would be an ideal investment considering taking a mortgage payment plan if it's for the newly built apartment.?

#Saidia_Ladies

u/uthman_realestate — 2 days ago
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🚨 WE’RE HIRING! 🚨

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We’re growing our team and looking for talented, driven people to join us across several positions, including Talent Management, Government Relations, and other key roles.

💰 Salary range: KES 40,000 – 100,000, depending on the role, experience and skill set.

We’re a startup, so this isn’t your typical 9–5 environment. Things move fast, priorities can change, and you’ll need to be adaptable, proactive and comfortable working under pressure.

If you:

✨ Are skilled in your field

🔥 Work well under pressure

📈 Are ready to grow with a young, ambitious company

💰 And, of course, are ready to get the bag…

We’d love to hear from you!

📩 DM me for more information, or reach out using the office number on the poster for clearer details about the available positions and application process.

Come ready to work, learn, grow — and make your money. 😌

u/Existing_Reaction782 — 3 days ago
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Thank you ❤️

To everyone who's supported and trusted Errands by Rachael - thank you. ❤️

I started this business with a simple goal: to make life easier for busy people. Whether it's picking up a package, shopping, sourcing products, making deliveries, you've done more than place an order, you've supported a dream.

Every referral, recommendation, payment and kind words have helped me grow and motivated me to keep showing up with reliable service. Here's to serving you even better!❤️

If you have an errand you'd like support with, feel free to reach out via WhatsApp: 0119800560

Price list attached.

u/majesticprincessar — 4 days ago

Tech and startup conventions

There are several tech conventions in Kenya, that, for lack of a better word, have turned out to be failures. I know the objective of every idea is to make a profit, but the needs of stakeholders for for tech conventions is never completely addressed. In 14 days, there will be Africa startup Festival which is one of those conferences, and I already don't see the need to go there.

The pattern is the same for all of them. Have stands, and then have several speakers.

For a startup founder, I am going there to either get investors or showcase the thing to my customers. As an investor, you hope to get very good products there. For a tech user/nerd you just want to also get usable edge-tech.

Now, do the conferences aim to satisfy all these stakeholders’ needs? Hardly. They are all just looking to create a FOMO thing and get you to pay for the tickets and while there you get underwhelmed. 

I have so many areas of improvement I could propose but I guess I should be paid for that. 

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u/1009_ke — 4 days ago
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Getting Started With USSDs + Mpesa Prompt

If you're just curious about getting started with USSD and prompting for MPesa payments during the session, here is a resource for you. This is basic; I will go indepth on future videos on issues such as creating the actual USSD engines to handle validations and getting backend processes etc.

I talk about what API Payload to expect and my experience working with Africa's Talking and Celcom Africa when developing USSDs. I'm particularly interested in making a string of videos on this because I recently worked on a project involving the same: USSD, SMS, MPesa, ERPNext, etc but really struggled to find guides on the same.

Most devs in Kenya are not outspoken and do not make content on these things, so I could as well do the same.

Thanks

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u/obsessed-nerd — 4 days ago
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We got tired of every self-improvement app becoming another subscription or an AI coach so we made something different

There are days when you don’t need another productivity system, motivational quote, or chatbot telling you how to fix your life.

Sometimes you just need one real person to notice that you showed up.

That’s why we built Duuo, a free accountability app centered around people you already trust. You choose a goal, invite a friend through a private code, and keep each other going through small check-ins, encouragement, and the occasional gentle nudge.

You can track progress and streaks, celebrate milestones, and share evidence when you want to. But the heart of the app isn’t gamification it’s the quiet feeling that someone is in your corner.

There’s:

  • No subscription
  • No paywall
  • No AI coach pretending to understand you
  • Just you, your goal, and someone who genuinely cares whether you make it

We built Duuo because consistency is difficult, and struggling alone makes it harder. We don’t think people need more pressure. We think they need more support.

The app is completely free. If you try it, I’d honestly love to hear what feels helpful, what feels unnecessary, and what you wish worked differently. We’re still listening and improving it.

Join early access: https://testflight.apple.com/join/558vdF52

And if downloading isn’t your thing, I’d still love to know: what has actually helped you stay consistent when motivation disappeared?

u/PressureOutside — 7 days ago
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Built a free rental listings site for Kenya, would love honest feedback

Hi all, I've been building tuzama.homes over the past few months, a site for finding houses to rent (and some for sale) across Kenya. No commission, no agent fees, you contact the landlord directly through WhatsApp, call or email, whatever they prefer.

It's still early. We have around 30 real listings up right now, mostly around Nairobi, and I'm actively adding more. I'm not here to sell anyone anything, genuinely just want feedback from people who actually search for houses here. Is the filtering useful, is anything confusing, is there something a site like this should have that others don't.

If you're house hunting or just curious, feel free to take a look and tell me what you think, good or bad. Link's tuzama.homes.

u/Imaginary_Mud1531 — 12 days ago
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Built an AI that gives you the answer live during a call, made here in Nairobi

so the whole idea behind this is answering the question while it's still hanging in the air, not an hour later in a summary email.

it's called wazomind.com it listens on your side of a call and transcribes live, and the main thing is this: when someone asks you something mid-call, you hit a key and it pulls the answer from your own knowledge during the call. client asks "what's this per year" or "do you work with X", it surfaces your actual number or your actual answer from documents you've fed it, right there, in a second or two. no fumbling, no "let me get back to you on that."

it can also answer general questions from what's being said on the call, so when you get put on the spot you're not the one going "uh, let me check."

a few things people use it for:

  • sales calls live objection handling and the exact answer to "what's your pricing" or "do you integrate with X" pulled from your own docs, then a follow-up email written for you after the call
  • client and consulting calls sounding on top of every detail while you talk, then a clean summary of what you actually committed to
  • getting put on the spot in any meeting it answers general knowledge questions from the conversation so you're never the one stalling
  • interview prep practice your answers beforehand and see where you're weak (this is prep before the real thing, not live help in an actual interview, on purpose)

it's mostly built for people who sell. AEs, founders doing their own selling, consultants. the live answer is worth the most when a deal's on the line and you've got three seconds to not blow it.

background: i spent about 7 years in client-facing marketing and digital roles here, and blanking on a question i should've known cold was the thing that always got me. three seconds of silence and the whole call shifts. so i built the thing i wished i'd had.

what i want to share with this group specifically is that the whole thing was built from nairobi. the app, the audio pipeline, the billing, the site, all of it. it's selling to people in the US and UK right now, which meant figuring out payments from here since stripe doesn't work for us. that was a whole saga, happy to get into it if it's useful to anyone.

honest about where it is: early. few hundred installs, a handful of paying, no reviews yet. not dressing it up.

it's mine, saying that upfront. mostly posting because i'd love to hear from others building for markets outside kenya, and if you take a lot of calls i'd genuinely value you trying it and telling me what breaks. wazomind.com

u/Hakuna_marara — 11 days ago

Looking to Connect with Medical Consumables Importers & Distributors in Kenya

Hello everyone,

We are an India-based healthcare sourcing and export company currently expanding into Kenya and looking to connect with reliable medical consumables importers, distributors, hospital suppliers, and procurement companies.

We supply a wide range of healthcare products, including syringes, IV sets, IV cannulas, gloves, blood collection tubes, catheters, surgical disposables, and other hospital consumables sourced from certified Indian manufacturers.

If you're already importing medical products or looking to expand your portfolio, we'd be happy to connect, understand your market requirements, and explore potential business opportunities.

We're also interested in learning more about the Kenyan healthcare market, import process, and distributor network.

Feel free to comment below or send me a DM. Looking forward to connecting with the community!

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u/FlaShOPvro — 9 days ago
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Small internet service providers, what are your margins and challenges?

I have seen a company called Centiprid or centipid technologies has set up a public wifi with a captive portal around where we live and wondered how much returns are on providing internet services in Nairobi for small ISPs.

If there is anyone doing that business in this community, please share your insight.

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u/Ok-Manner-2237 — 12 days ago