FarmPin helps farmers pinpoint plant performance by putting satellite performance maps and insights into their hands.
It was incubated within Afrolabs from conception with customer development, prototyping and platform development.
Products we've created
Voya.ai is an award winning platform which helps customer driven companies gain insight from user research.
This magic is achieved by transcribing conversations, extracting meaningful information like topics and emotions, and generating reports from these findings.
We helped them design and build an improved experience
Thundafund is South Africa’s leading online Crowdfunding Café and marketplace for creatives and innovators. It enables entrepreneurs to raise capital and build a supportive crowd of backers for their projects & ideas.
We helped re-design the Thundafund experience and developed the platform.
KujaKuja Is a system to improve customer satisfaction for refugees around the world.
We took over the code-base after the initial ideo.org MVP and are enjoying helping it grow.
Cowa-Bunga tracks last-mile deliveries, giving operations teams insight into the fleet and customers live delivery tracking.
Afrolabs designed the platform and built customer and operations interfaces as well as built the driver app.
The Nomanini Lula is a easy-to-use device to print and sell airtime vouchers. We started off building the appengine backend and ended up helping to create the embedded firmware too.
Gumtree Goods makes it easier and faster for entrepreneurs to sell things on Gumtree.
We started out by doing customer development to better understand some of the challenges entrepreneurs face. We then used these findings to design a simpler responsive web app.
UX & UI Design
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Other Products
GIVA is the only digital platform that enables true one-to-one giving. It connects those who love to give, directly with individuals in need at accredited non-profit organisations vetted by Community Chest.
GIVA bridges the divide between responsible givers and those in need by enabling individualised connection, real feedback and systematic transparency.
YuppieCash is a payday loans service.
We are currently building the Google appengine app for the back-office that receives application data from WordPress and assists in decision making.
Zapacab is a taxi cab service for Africa. Pressing the zap me a cab button will find the nearest driver and send him on his way to you.
We have grown the apps with Zapacab and are continuously working to improve the experience for drivers and passengers.
Mimiboard is a virtual pinboard for Africa. Board owners can create boards that bring together the best social content and allow user interaction.
We built the web app on Google appengine and are enjoying watching it scale.
An online web application connecting the different levels of property management and maintenance
We helped build the MVP and worked together with 88mph to accelerate the startup. The team has now pivoted to create QuicklySign.com
Toodu is a free service that matches items on your to do list with people and businesses who can help you get things done.
We built the Toodu MVP. ‘Toodu closed down on 1 May 2013. Thank you to our 25,000 Toodu users and sorry we couldn’t get it to work.’
Evergrow is a community dedicated to assisting small business to thrive in South Africa.
We overhauled the site and developed the ‘gym’ and ‘shopping center’ for the community site.
The Citadel is a financial administration services engine that lowers administration costs through automation and provides product building blocks.
We joined the Imagination team for this project, with constant involvement in active product development.
In line with SA Steelworks’ focus on ISO 9001 compliance.
we have created a Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) job tracking system and are iteratively developing it to further suit their needs.
Aerosens is a project we created in parthership with one over zero.
Aerosens Flight Centre allows you to play back GPS track files of aerobatic flights. This 3D track data can be merged with sequence timing information zone location.
MK needed a sytem to assist with the escalating complexity of managing their crew.
Afrolabs developed a solution coupling a drag & drop timeline-based .net GUI to a FTL rule-processing logic core WCF service.
iBlue is is a live vendor managed inventory server that monitors, accesses and controls stock replenishment across a market.
We developed the software side of the iBlue Shelf-Link prototype, which in concept and functionality is very similar to Vend-Link, but as its name suggests, works on shelves.
We were involved in the M-Net DealWorks project on behalf of Microsoft Services South Africa.
This project was an intellectual property management system, involving contract management for content and scheduling of channels
We were involved in a number of iterations of a modelling tool for Anglo Platinum in partnership with Dariel Solutions.
We developed a transport for the folks over at SIPphone.com to allow the users of the Gizmo project to chat to their contacts on MySpace.
The transport is GPL’d and has been released to the public domain
MXit is a Jabber instant messaging solution for mobile phones.
Afrolabs developed a system for MXit to send ad-sponsored SMS messages to alert users that offline messages have been received.
MK Airlines needed a system to assist with planning their complex schedule of cargo flights.
We developed a system that simplifies the process of booking cargo and calculating costs and scheduling flights.
