Venmum

We allow businesses to connect directly customers without them having to go to the market like they would normally do. Which the lock down prevents. Enabling them to do business and being safe

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Inspiration

Most Nigerians are not taking the lock down that the government is imposing on them likely because most of them have to go to the market and sell their products and services before they could make money to feed. And the major way for them to sell what they have is in a physical market. An only about 10% of the people they come in connect with in that market ends up buying from them. Venmun is eliminating the unnecessary contacts and connecting them with only the 10% who will really buy from them

What it does

Nigerians and Africans understands the concept of a market better than the concept of a store and Venmun operates with those concept in mind. We show users posts (products/services) that are offered around them so they know who sells what and the closest way of get that thing. And the product and service providers can easily locate potential customers with little or no effort of their own

How I built it

I built it with the hottest language on the web; Javascript. And I needed to go fast so I used React and Material-UI to build the front end.

Challenges I ran into

Because I am personally funding the project from my little salary which I also use to stay alive, I couldn't hire more developers to work on it with me. And I could do more publicity for the project

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

I was able to build it alone, buy the domain name, host, and gain some publicity on Twitter

What I learned

Convincing people to use a product is hard Building a product alone is hard

What's next for Venmum

We want to keep growing and keep building solutions to keep business grow with little efforts

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