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WhatsApp platforms vs WDDNG vs ParcelNow
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In common
- Shared stack: none in common
- Order: WhatsApp platforms (2018 – 2022) → ParcelNow (2025 – 2026) → WDDNG (Jan 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
ParcelNow ›
On-demand parcel delivery with real-time tracking
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
- Technical lead, Smart Kitchen Co
- When
- 2025 – 2026
- Length
- 1 yr
- Status
- Delivered
- Type
- Web, Platform
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.
Customer and operations dashboards with backend services for parcel lifecycles, tracking events and notifications, built for high-throughput transactional workflows.
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.
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Stack
- Python
- Django
- WhatsApp Business API
- Infobip
- Twilio
- Next.js
- Supabase
- PostgreSQL
- Kotlin
- Jetpack Compose
- LangGraph
- Zod
- Paystack
- Azure
- LangSmith
- Next.js
- FastAPI
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Docker
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
- Next.js dashboards over FastAPI services
- Live delivery updates through logistics and messaging integrations
Infrastructure choices
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- Supabase with PostgreSQL RLS
- Docker-based development and deployment standards
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.
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