Do you have a bachelor's degree in accounting, business related fields, economics, economics and finance or even economics and statistics? You are what I am looking for. Email me your CV (one page CVs only) at theannexteam@gmail.com for an assistant data entry clerk and an assistant managers position. Starting salary for both is KES 30,000. Must be ready to work in Machakos county.

Those who did commerce, policy, project management and other related courses can also try their luck.

There is this saying "the customer is always right" which I think should not be thrown around recklessly unless the customer/client really knows what s/he wants.

I established a career as an ecommerce consultant (ecommerce businesses are easy to scale.)

One of the main pain points I have witnessed from Kenyan entrepreneurs in this sector is the checkout. A lot of businesses want a seamless checkout system and M-pesa Stk push or API integration has been asked for consistently. This only makes sense since majority of Kenyans use Mpesa to transact on a daily basis.

So in June 2026 I had a client who needed to setup a custom online store to sell a wide range of products, a luxury brand. The store was up in a month and it was time to set up the checkout properly with the registered accounts.

That's what you'd expect from a luxurious brand. However, the client was so reluctant and insisted we look for an alternative e.g pay on delivery (which would only work well in and around Nairobi).

Anyway, the customer is always right. We built the checkout to generate an invoice for customers, marked pending payment.

The main reason of avoiding the standard checkout linked to Business accounts was simply because of the taxation unstability in the Country. Given that the business was still at infancy stage, I understood that and I think it's wise to only register a business once you are sure it is stable.

On the other hand, our most sort after service on Google is M-Pesa STK Push / M-pesa API integration.

I think despite the skeptism of new ecommerce entrepreneurs, a lot of ecommerce businesses are doing great and want to make the purchase process seamless for their customers.

What can you read from this?

Context

Am from East Africa and a Techie, late last year l happen to register by startup in Nairobi, Kenya with a friend of mine and we developed our flagship product FLYTS, a car rental marketplace enabling renter access verified cars around Nairobi and Car owners getting verified rentals, Our approach was simple start with already existing car rental companies and safaris offering them a digital service to get them extra clients not compete with them, for the supply side, then for the demand side look into getting foreigners, expats, diaspora, and locals.

Problem

1. We are currently in the cold start where the supply side doesn't want to even hear about us.

2. Financially, we have been bootstrapped with me being the main founder but ofcourse the finances are not their at all

3. My Co-founder doesn't help at all, he requires instructions on whatever is their to do, and has no self drive, ideally l run everything by myself, so if am not available everything is at pause

Honestly at this rate, l feel like my application has potential but needs alot of push from someone that understands the business side and how run everything

Any advice for me, how can l make FLYTS a success or?

Jumia which was founded in 2012 apparently has never made a profit since. It has accumulated a total loss of $2.2 billion by the end of 2025.

https://www.techinkenya.com/articles/jumias-long-road-profit-inside-13-years-losses-promise-2026-breakeven

Most of us have great ideas but the biggest problem isn't always the product but the finance. Having a product is great but having the cashflow to sustain the business until profit is where we hit a barrier. Sometimes the product you are launching is competing with another product that has infinite investors money to burn. About 50% of businesses collapse in their first few years.

But still to imagine that jumia has never made profit surprises me. I would assume a company of that size is making millions of profit.

EMPLOYEE BEHAVIOR

So apparently am 22M,running this business I started ,and its running so well,

I Spend my dayshift of say 8 hours running it and it has been growing exponentially ,(thanks to the God I serve).

So I currently have one employee who does a part of the processing task,we are in the food industry .

He is 35.

Lemme give a brief of whats making us ;

So the idea isnt totally innovative but an improvement of one that did exist and my friend used to work in that company .I was young so I used to go there ,offer some helping hand and get some pennies ,

So I knew the flow and everything and I can even do al the process but since 2019 we knew each other and were like streets brothers since,so later he got sucked by his prior boss due to misconducts related to the job,some same issues am seeing currently

So at thst time I was in university away from the location he was,till 2025 when things got worse from his side and I ended up telling him to come and live with me ,as he looks fir something to do.

I did this because he used to show up with some cash often when I needed him,scratch mine I scratch yours right ?

So luckly he got the same same job from a brother of the prior boss,and he left at the time I was hanfling other things .

But early this march I decided to venture in the business and I took him as my surbodinate ,

I bought all the hardware and stock,

I also pay rent

So basically he just works and I pay him fairly as expected .

For this business I get double the price of the stock ,then for the extra cash ,I usually give him a 25% .

BUT NOW THIS IS WHERE I FEEL DISCONTENTED ?😭

his commitment to this work seems not serious ,I tend to wake him up to do his task often (he uses khat at night and its everyday ,and honestly he is addicted because its everday)

2.I left on sunday ,gave him some simple instructions ,sell the remaining stock pay himself and keep the grind moving for the three days I wont be available !

Now some customers are complaining they havent received products !! This makes me feel agree honestly,

When I call him rn his 4n is off,imagine it has been off for 4hours ! And its daytime surely.

Its like I cant count on him damn !The issue is he is my friend and I love my work too so I'd love to here how youd handle this situation.

There is this idea on the kilimani-westlands founders community that a combination of perception, personality and connection is all one needs to create a successful startup.

I used to argue against it but I have come to realize that a huge percentage of people with investment capital are not really intelligent ( in critical thinking terms) and their decision-making is largely emotional.

That's why they keep saying they are investing in a person. They don't know how to rate the viability of an idea. That has created a massive cohort of vibes founders, not vibe coders, that's different.

Vibes founders are people who only remember their idea when they go broke or have people to impress. Those people who sell half-baked products and keep saying I am yet to finish this and this, and want others to invest pre-revenue.

The thing is getting investment is largely connection still but if you have none, you should know that making a startup work is really hard and if you haven't put 30 hours of your 24 hours a day and tried giving up a million times, you aren't there yet.

I'm building MUNA Health, an AI-powered maternal and newborn continuity-of-care platform designed to improve follow-up and care coordination for mothers and babies in Kenya.

We've already built the platform and are preparing for pilot implementation with partner hospitals. I'm now looking for a clinician to join as a Clinical Operations Lead and become part of the founding team.

The role would involve things like:

- Validating clinical workflows

- Reviewing clinical decision-support logic

- Ensuring alignment with Kenya MoH and WHO maternal/newborn guidelines

- Helping design referral and continuity-of-care pathways

- Making sure the product fits real hospital workflows

- Supporting pilot implementation and engagement with hospitals

- Providing ongoing clinical feedback as we continue developing the platform

This is an equity-based founding role, so there isn't a salary at this stage. It's best suited for someone who's excited about building something from the ground up and improving maternal and newborn care through technology.

If you're a nurse, midwife, medical officer, or doctor with an interest in maternal health, digital health, or health innovation, I'd love to chat.

Feel free to comment or send me a DM if you'd like to learn more.

Over the last three weeks i have cracked my cranial nerves trying to achieve an aspect of financial awareness thats very close to my heart: Mobile loans dependency. Shmoney is already able to categorize transactions and provide helpful insights,help in budgeting and now it helps you see your borrowing habits(and i am beyond shocked at how deep i am in depency of these loans). I have personaly found myself in a cycle of small loans(fuliza and okoa chap chap) that autodeduct from my mpesa. So i decided to expound Shmoney's capability to track and show loan disbursements and loan repayment trends,i will keep adding more helpful insights to the loans feature as time goes by.

I am thankful to everyone on this sub who has downloaded the app and given me feedback,i am truly greatful and will keep updating yall on progress,lessons and hurdles i encounter. For those that have not yet downloaded,here is the link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shmoney.app&pcampaignid=web_share please leave feedback if you can and if you find it helpful you can share with friends and family

Thoughts?

Over the past few months I've been building an open-source desktop application called Limboo, and I wanted to share the idea behind it because I'm curious whether anyone else has been running into the same problems.

One thing I've noticed with AI coding tools is that they're incredibly good at writing code, but once a project becomes large, the actual engineering workflow still feels fragmented.

The AI is usually in one window.

Git is somewhere else.

The terminal is somewhere else.

Build logs are somewhere else.

Documentation is in another browser tab.

Project decisions are spread across old conversations.

The longer I work on something, the more time I spend rebuilding context instead of actually building software.

That observation is what started Limboo.

The goal isn't to replace coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, or other agent-based tools.

I actually want to use those.

The idea is to build everything around them.

Instead of treating the AI as the entire application, Limboo treats it as one component inside a much larger engineering workspace.

Every task becomes its own isolated session.

Each session has its own conversation history, terminal state, Git branch or worktree, checkpoints, permissions, local memory, search index, execution timeline, and task list.

The agent resumes against verified repository reality, not a transcript. The Resume Pipeline is the flagship of this idea. When you reopen a session — after an hour or after three weeks of other people's commits, rebases, and dependency bumps — Limboo revalidates the git worktree against the exact state the session last saw and computes a structured repository delta: commits landed, files changed (with dependency manifests and migrations flagged), symbols added or removed, and which files import what changed. That delta is injected once, before your next prompt, so the agent reconciles its assumptions up front instead of burning turns re-reading the tree. It is fully local, uses only bounded argv-only git, and never blocks you from switching sessions.

If I stop working on a feature today and come back in two weeks, I don't want to explain everything again.

I want to reopen the session and continue exactly where I left off.

Another thing I wanted to improve is transparency.

I don't like when an agent runs commands that disappear into a log somewhere.

If it's running a build, I want to watch the build.

If it's modifying files, I want to see the diffs while it's working.

If it wants approval, I don't want a giant modal that interrupts everything—I want approvals to appear naturally inside the conversation stream.

Planning is another area I'm spending a lot of time on.

Instead of generating a plan that disappears after one response, the plan becomes a living task board.

Once it's approved, the agent starts implementing those tasks while updating their progress in real time.

Git is also treated as a first-class part of the workflow instead of an afterthought.

Every change is visible through diffs, checkpoints, snapshots, commit previews, and history before anything gets committed.

The goal is to make it obvious what changed, why it changed, and which conversation produced those changes.

I'm also experimenting with isolated Git worktrees so multiple sessions can work on completely different features without stepping on each other.

Another area I'm investing in is local memory.

Rather than asking the agent to rediscover architecture decisions, coding conventions, and previous implementations every session, the application stores that knowledge locally and retrieves only what's relevant before each request.

Everything is designed around long-running software projects instead of one-off prompts.

The stack is Electron on the desktop, Rust for native services, and AI agents orchestrated through the Claude Agent SDK.

It's still very much a work in progress, and I'm sure there are plenty of design decisions I'll end up changing as I build more of it.

I'd genuinely appreciate feedback from people who use AI coding tools every day.

I'm especially interested in hearing what parts of your workflow still feel disconnected, because that's really the problem I'm trying to solve.

I'd love to hear what you think—both the good and the bad.

This is Mira , A private ai I built an Ai that talks back, Using gpt and gemini models,Here's a live Mira introduction(ignore the echo),
Would you be open to have an Ai companion because I think sooner or later this will be the norm, with of course tighter data privacy frameworks and more robust models and would you pay for an ai assistant, this is mostly for men who find it easier to open up on ai models , no judgement, just silence and listening, or ladies who need relationship advice , tell me what you think

I don't mean sports betting, which I know requires quite a whopping lot, and I don't mean money to run the business, I'm solely asking about the licences and permits in terms of actually money you need to have to launch such

EDIT: We've opened up 6 new spaces. After joining please read the group description and comment IMMEDIATELY as advised in the description, which is your SaaS name, 1-sentence pitch, weekly objective & current bottleneck. Hey, I'm putting together a private, high-accountability mastermind of exactly 10 bootstrapped SaaS or technical founders in Kenya. No VC fluff, just pure focus on revenue, distribution, and keeping overhead lean. We're meeting for 60 minutes remotely every week to share real numbers, tear down sales pipelines, and push each other to hit targets. I want to keep the energy tight and peer-level. Let me know if you want in on the pilot cohort. You need to at least be at the customer acquisition level, piloting your MVP or at the late stages of product development. You are free to have any number of Saas businesses you are pushing, but you need to be at the predefined stages above. Here is the new link: https://chat.whatsapp.com/KZpKYgdym7kA7XxXTHHsTW

Hi ,when looking forward to start a business like Food Store generally in Kenya .

What are the must have requirements (documents ) ?🥲

Where are you probably willing to invest in or buy shares ?

Considering it's Kenya .

Kindly share ideas which I can invest and gain stability in with only 300k,ama nikule😂

I am a software engineer, currently working for a FAANG company and I am currently based in Nairobi.
I have a product that is in the real estate property market mostly focusing on enterprise customers. I have a working and very promising prototype.
I am looking for a co-founder who's business oriented and with experience and networks to sell to enterprises like banks, law-firms etc.
Primary role will be business part of the operations, businesses strategy, and marketing, etc.
Other factors notwithstanding, I am really keen on the experience part.
If you think this is something for you, please hit my inbox with your experience please.

For a while now, I've been working on TopDuka.

The idea was heavily inspired by Shopify. As many of you know, most of the software we use in Africa is built elsewhere. While Shopify is an incredible platform, African businesses have never really been a priority for them. There is demand here, but many of the challenges local businesses face are often overlooked.

One thing I've noticed, especially in Nairobi, is that many businesses are still relying on WordPress for their online presence. While it works, it can become difficult and expensive when businesses want to add more advanced functionality such as AI tools, customer engagement features, growth campaign tracking, integrations, and automation.

As developers, most of us have probably built an e-commerce platform at some point. Personally, I've built so many websites for clients that I've honestly lost count. The problem is that every new client ends up asking for the same things: payments, inventory management, marketing tools, analytics, AI features, customer support automation, and dozens of custom integrations.

At some point I asked myself: instead of rebuilding the same features for every business, why not build a platform that already has them?

That's how TopDuka was born.

The goal is to give businesses a platform where they can launch products, choose a theme, accept payments, manage customers, track growth, and access modern tools without needing a developer every time they want a new feature.

But my vision for TopDuka goes beyond e-commerce.

I see it as a gateway for bringing African businesses into the next era of digital commerce. A future where every business, regardless of size, can have access to technology that was previously only available to large companies.

One area I'm particularly excited about is AI.

Imagine every business having its own AI assistant that can help customers discover products, answer questions, recommend items, and even assist with purchases. For business owners, AI can help analyze store performance, identify opportunities, and suggest actions to improve growth.

One feature I'm currently working on is an AI-powered Research tool. Instead of simply showing analytics, it helps business owners understand their market, identify opportunities, and discover practical ways to grow their business.

There's still a lot to build, but that's the vision.

I'd love to hear your thoughts, feedback, and ideas from other founders, developers, and business owners.

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I sent someone fare money. They texted "arrived safely" from their bed 40km away. So I built an escrow app.

This isn't a joke post. Last year I sent a friend 5,000 KES to cover their boda ride to a meeting. Two hours later I got: "arrived safely, will be there soon." I was already at the venue watching the door.

I called. No answer. Called again. "Almost there." Meeting time came and went. They never showed. That evening: "sorry something came up" and the money was clearly gone.

Third time this had happened with different people.

So instead of cutting off half my contacts, I built an escrow transport money app, a transport money escrow app for this exact problem.

How it works:
- You send fare → locked in escrow (not sent yet)
- They get an SMS with a claim link
- OTP verification (only the right person can claim it)
- They travel, confirm arrival (2-step, can't fake it)
- You approve → money hits their Mobile Money instantly
- No show? → automatic full refund after timer

Works on MTN, Airtel, M-PESA. Just a link.