Chukua.com – yet another directory-type website. Lots of these are being built, it seems. The thing that sets Chukua.com apart is that it is not only a directory but a marketplace – whereby you can set up an online “shop” on chukua.com. The site is very well designed and thought out. Good luck to the creators!
Nairobi Living – well, it is another directory-type website. Though I must say that Nairobi Living looks to be elegant and well done.
Samosa Queen – a website that represents a business based in Dallas, Texas, USA whereby you can order samosas, mandazi or chapati online. The design is a bit “dated” but it does the job – nice and simple!
50-50
Maridadi.co.ke – is an online clothing store. The design is beautifully done. Kudos to the developers on that front. However, the checkout process is not so intuitive – when you click “buy now” the page refreshes, but it is not immediately apparent what happened. Could be improved. 🙂
Flops
Jambo News Pot – this is supposed to be a website which aggregates local news. Unfortunately, the site’s design does it no favours at all and makes the site look haphazard and unorganised. The excessive adverts near the top are also an eyesore (though perhaps they indicate the site is earning the owners a pretty penny). Could be better!
It just shows we need well designed websites with good ideas
A few more directory type sites:
http://www.kenya-schools.com/ ,
http://www.kenya-portals.com/ ,
http://www.kenya-business-directory.com/ ,
Criticism is welcome! Anyone wanting to collaborate on any future sites is welcome to use the contact form on any of the above sites.
I think there are tens more, with some of the bigger ones being: http://n-soko.com/, http://dealfish.co.ke/ and http://kenya.craigslist.org/
I do not mean to bash these sites – it is just a fact that competition here is stiff and some of the competitors are really large. It is an interesting battleground for observers.
Kelvin: The ones you mention are ‘market’ sites, not strictly ‘Directory’. The sites I mentioned compete with sites like ‘Kenya Yellow Pages’ but have special niches.
That’s true! Roughly similar, but distinctly different. Are you the creator of those?
Yes. The kenya schools site is html/css/jQuery. The other two are WordPress with my own custom theme.
Kudos on a job well done! I hope you make lots of money and retire young 😉
i also think http://www.mapambo.com/index.php is interesting 🙂
quite a bit interesting idea on Chukua.com and nice use of blue colour, though in a crowded field, I hope they achieve what they have set. Who are the owners?
Also not sure though looks like really good work going down there. I heard it on CapitalFM News, the guy was quite geeky about it, but I hope they will break even soon
Here is the another site
What about the comical mwalimu andrew website? Its gone viral on facebook especially on Sundays
For those who haven’t seen it;
http://mwalimuandrew.com
Viral? Where?
i think even the KEJJANI.COM will launch big from the look in their facebook page.
Hope to see what they will offer
Have you checked out the new mini ebay Kenyan site chochote.co.ke i think its also cool