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WhatsApp platforms vs WDDNG vs Fashionly
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In common
- Shared stack: none in common
- Both kinds of work: AI
- Order: WhatsApp platforms (2018 – 2022) → WDDNG (Jan 2026 – present) → Fashionly (Apr 2026 – present)
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WhatsApp platforms ›
Altur, Harambee and eButler on the WhatsApp Business API
WDDNG ›
South Africa's wedding marketplace, with two apps on Google Play
Fashionly ›
Your style, elevated: an AI stylist that starts with what you own
At a glance
- Role
- Lead engineer, Mmogo Media
- When
- 2018 – 2022
- Length
- 4 yr
- Status
- Delivered
- Type
- Platform, AI
- Role
- Founder / Full-stack & Mobile Engineer
- When
- Jan 2026 – present
- Length
- 10 mo so far
- Status
- Live
- Type
- AI, Mobile, Web
- Role
- Founder / Lead Engineer
- When
- Apr 2026 – present
- Length
- 7 mo so far
- Status
- MVP
- Type
- AI, Mobile, Web
The problem
A WhatsApp-based job platform (Altur), Harambee Youth Accelerator's move from a mobisite to WhatsApp, and eButler's WhatsApp ordering with payments through Flash.
South African couples plan across fragmented directories, WhatsApp messages and opaque “price on request” listings, while many international tools don't support local multi-ceremony wedding journeys.
Fashion-commerce recommendations usually optimise for another purchase without understanding what the customer already owns.
What was built
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A Next.js and Supabase marketplace with two Kotlin / Jetpack Compose Android apps on Google Play: one for couples, one for vendors. Thuli, the AI planner, is a LangGraph supervisor coordinating 16 specialist agents.
Fashionly grounds recommendations in the user's wardrobe, builds outfits from existing items and recommends products only where a genuine wardrobe gap exists. Khanya, a LangGraph stylist with about 15 typed tools, handles wardrobe access, catalogue search, saved looks and human-stylist bookings.
Stack
- Python
- Django
- WhatsApp Business API
- Infobip
- Twilio
- Next.js
- Supabase
- PostgreSQL
- Kotlin
- Jetpack Compose
- LangGraph
- Zod
- Paystack
- Azure
- LangSmith
- Next.js
- Kotlin
- Supabase
- LangGraph
- MongoDB
- SSE
Highlights
- Conversational journeys on the WhatsApp Business API
- Payments via Flash, Paystack and MTN MoMo
- Two Kotlin / Jetpack Compose Android apps published on Google Play
- Thuli: a LangGraph supervisor coordinating 16 specialist agents through Zod-typed handoff tools
- Per-agent model selection, token metering and LangSmith tracing
- SSE streaming that renders vendor cards and progress during an answer
- Khanya: a LangGraph tool-calling stylist with about 15 typed tools
- MongoDB-checkpointed conversation memory and SSE streaming of tool progress and grounded product cards
- Request-scoped Supabase clients with row-level security on every request
Infrastructure choices
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- Supabase with PostgreSQL RLS
- Supabase with RLS
- MongoDB checkpoints
- SSE
Outcome
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The marketplace runs across web and two production Android apps, giving couples structured planning tools and vendors better-qualified enquiries with date, budget and guest-count context.
A working end-to-end MVP across web and Android: wardrobe management, catalogue discovery, conversational styling, saved looks and human-stylist booking.