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As a startup we connect clients to Africa's top tech talent, I 'm curious to know what are the reasons that would stop you from outsourcing your software development to Africa, what are your major concerns, What questions do you have ?

Thank you @majani,

Kuhustle is a global marketplace. The incentive is the guaranteed quality of service compared to other traditional freelance platforms. By plugging in a product managers between the employer and freelancer, Kuhustle is able to take away the process headaches of product design and delivery and offer greater convenience to the client.

Thank you @iamjeff

Thank you for the kind words. Most people on here will advise you to start coding right away and I agree with them 100%. 2-3 hours everyday, use codeacademy or one of those websites and reference stack overflow when you get stuck. By September you will have a product or two that you can share on Hacker News

Hi @Geofree, The tech industry in Africa is a $2.7B market growing at estimated 8.5% annually, its extremely segmented and data may vary from one region to another. The pricing is almost similar to india, no language barriers and timezone difference is closer to Europe. We have the advantage of the first mover in the region and hopefully have better data in a year or two.

Thank you!

Thank you @CreativeAkili !!

Thank you @JBReefer !

Some of the advantages include a large english speaking population. Africa has 54 states, of which 23 are english speaking countries and 21 have their official language as French but speak English as well, the second would be countries like Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania have a closer time-zone proximity to Europe and finally we have thousands of young graduates looking for work. The pricing difference is negligible at around 5% lower for top tech talent in comparison to Europe.

The biggest deterrent has always been the price of internet connectivity and that has recently become very affordable at around $50 for 10 Megabyte due to high internet penetration and not to mention mobile money. Kenya happens to have had the 10 largest community on Elance before the merger with Odesk and that has been our testing market.

Thank you and blessings

Thank you @sixhobbits, working on that right away, we also hope to launch in SA very soon!

Hi, I'm Sam, we built Kuhustle after we discovered a large pool of growing Tech Talent in Africa that was untapped. Africa already has a community of freelancers on other online platforms but the local market is largely overlooked. Today we are thrilled to announce version 1.0 that allows our freelance community to get vetted and find work.

We would love to hear what you think about Kuhustle 1.0 and happy to answer any questions or comments!