100+ Businesses You Can Start in Kenya
A free directory of 100+ businesses you can start in Kenya — 100plusbiz.co.ke
“Business ideas” content in Kenya is mostly vague motivational fluff. Aspiring founders need the real numbers — what a business actually costs to start, what licensing it legally requires, and where it typically goes wrong.
- Pulled official licensing steps live from Kenya's eProcedures portal, so guidance reflects actual government procedure rather than secondhand blog advice.
- Designed a consistent entry format across 100+ wildly different businesses — from bodaboda to hotels — pairing real capital ranges with honest risk and marketing notes for each.
- Built search and capital-level filtering so users can find businesses that match what they can actually afford. Free to use.
Clipboard / Snippet Manager
Chrome extension — published on the Chrome Web Store
Snippet managers tend to disappear into generic chrome. This one needed its own visual identity while staying fast to search and insert from.
- Designed a neubrutalist visual system — deliberately distinct from the flat, default extension-popup look.
- Built category organization, search, and a global command palette for one-click insertion into any input field on any page.
CompareKE
Kenyan telecom plan comparison platform — compareke.co.ke
Mobile, ISP, Pay TV, and streaming plans in Kenya are structured completely differently from each other. The design challenge was making dissimilar plan types comparable on common ground.
- Designed a normalized data model so plans with different pricing structures, data units, and contract terms could sit side-by-side without misleading the user.
- Owned the full UX of the comparison interface — filtering, plan-to-plan comparison logic, and information hierarchy for a dense, attribute-heavy dataset.
NairobiFloodWatch
Real-time flood monitoring dashboard — nairobi-flood-watch.vercel.app
Disaster response needs live, ward-level visibility — but the original data source (X/Twitter API) became commercially unviable mid-build, forcing a full re-architecture of the data layer without breaking the live product.
- Built a live dashboard combining ward-level choropleth maps, river buffer zones, and road closure overlays for real-time situational awareness.
- Replaced the X/Twitter API feed with an RSS-based field-report pipeline once the original integration became too costly to sustain — a pragmatic architecture call made under real cost pressure, not a hypothetical one.
ArabiaRoutes
GCC cross-border driving guide — arabia.arabiaroutes.site
Cross-border road trips across the GCC involve scattered, inconsistent information — insurance, visas, border crossings, connectivity — across six countries with different rules.
- Designed and built a content-driven platform covering Orange Card insurance, visa requirements, border crossings, and eSIM connectivity for cross-border road trips.
- Built the underlying programmatic SEO architecture to scale content across country and route combinations.
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Experience
Pre-seed carbon-offset marketplace. Defined product vision with the founding team; designed buyer and seller flows for a platform balancing tech-savvy urban buyers against lower-bandwidth rural project owners.
Designed interfaces and interactive prototypes across client projects, running user research to ground each design in validated need.
Designed and prototyped an ERP system used across 5+ institutions of higher learning and 3+ government bodies; led the redesign of a student application portal through to shipped HTML/CSS.
Designed advertising campaigns, brochures, and promotional materials; owned the company's brand guidelines.