Annabel Angwenyi's car wouldn't start when she ran her errand in Africa. She called her usual mechanic but he was busy helping someone else. Because many local businesses don't have an online presence, she couldn't find someone else to fix her car. Annabel saw an opportunity to solve a problem, despite her frustration.
After a lot of research, hard work and perseverance, she and her co-founding partner launched an app that connects people across the country to local service providers. There is a team of seven people and over 60,000 downloads on the play store.
One of the people featured in #WeArePlay is Annabel. Annabel talked to us about how she got Ziada up and running with no tech experience and the impact it has had on the community.
How did you come up with the idea in the first place?
We are both business people, so we didn't have any tech experience. We collaborated with a software developer to create the app. We published the first version of Ziada on the internet. It didn't take off. We took a break because we didn't know if the market was ready for it.
When the Pandemic hit in 2020, we noticed that people wanted to access more things on demand and online. We changed the app's name to reflect how we could help and launched again. Our app has been downloaded over 60,000 times and is helping service providers find new clients.
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