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BTS of building Hudumu -  Local / Home service marketplace

BTS of building Hudumu - Local / Home service marketplace

I’m in my final year studying software development, and what started as a school project is turning into something I might build for real.

Living in Ruaraka, Nairobi, I noticed how local service providers (fundis, cleaners, caterers, beauty services, etc.) get clients:

  • Flyers that people ignore or throw away
  • Word of mouth — slow and limited
  • TikTok Content creation revolving around there business

On the customer side, it’s not much better:

  • No clear pricing → you have to call multiple people
  • Hidden “gem” providers are hard to discover
  • No central place to browse and compare
  • Trust is a big issue

The idea started with home services (house calls like cleaning, beauty, repairs), but it’s starting to feel like a bigger marketplace problem.

So I built a simple landing page to validate it and start collecting early providers:

https://hudumu.vercel.app

Right now, I’m just trying to see if providers are interested and understand their needs.

u/L-Aesthetics — 14 hours ago