The Startups of Cape Town
The Indie Hackers Community of Cape Town
The Indie Hackers Cape Town meetup happens on the last Tuesday of every month. The meetup exists to enable networking and collaboration in the Cape Town community, with the goal of encouraging the growth of makers and their online businesses.
Our approach
The Indie Hackers meetup quite characteristically hosts amazing people making amazing things. Acknowledging this is a guiding principle to the approach we take in structuring the meetup: to get the best out of the community, we avoid the one-sided conference style, and instead form groups where everyone is free to speak.
To put it simply — for the first 2 thirds (2/3) of the event, we separate people into groups, and have each group come up with topics they want to discuss for the event. The last third (1/3) is left open for networking, once attendees have gotten to know a bit about each other after topic discussion.
The Startups of Indie Hackers Cape Town Meetup #7
The showcase…
🔥 SaaS Pegasus by Cory Zue
SaaS Pegasus is a Django Powered SaaS template built with ready to use components. It has ready Stripe integration, landing page, pricing page, transactional email, analytics and error monitoring!
Essentially, it allows you to build your SaaS startup in hours instead of weeks! It launched today (as I write) and has already found its first customer!
You can follow Cory’s progress on it as he builds it on his twitter.
🍸 VibeScout by Jono Myburgh & Co.
Vibescout helps you find things to do around you. Imagine Spotify, but for events around you. Jono and the team have built a platform that is quite sentinel-like in knowing exactly what’s happening around you (from events to entertainment to movies) in real-time.
Vibescout have grown to service over 390 000 unique monthly active users and are working to grow their value offer in the movies space.
👼 WeSit by Wisani Shilumani (me) & Co.
WeSit connects parents to professional babysitters near them. The startup has signed up over 1000 babysitters and 230 parents in South Africa. We recently had the fastest booking on our site; where a parent signed up, made a request, and booked and paid for a sitter in under 10 minutes. We’re looking to streamline the process of finding trusted babysitters, who match the needs of different families, even further.
To remain aware, I’ll leave a GIF in the name of “there’s nothing wrong with a little bit of harmless self-promotion:”
🎨 Jobox by Sbusiso Buna & Co.
Jobox, founded by Sbusiso and team, connects you to freelancers when you need to get things done. From inspired graphic designers to indulgent personal chefs, Jobox looks to serve as the central hub for freelance work in South Africa and ultimately change the way work is done.
🚐 Lula by Xabiso Nodada & Co.
LULA connects corporate commuters to private shuttles. They do door-to-door pickups from home to work, collecting company commuters staying in close proximity to each other going to the same destination or office location.
In the past two months, LULA’s team has been working tirelessly to grow the company operationally, and improve their app technology. In partnership with the V&A Waterfront, LULA provided transport for WeThinkCode_, a nonprofit technology university located at the V&A Waterfront. They ran daily trips for the students in order to ensure that students had a convenient, safe, and comfortable way to get home every day.
They also recently completed the BonBillo Spring Social Impact Accelerator in Boston, USA!
I’m adding this as a note to try organize a Lula for one of our meetups. We’re quite aware of the people who can’t make the meetups because of commute issues.
☕Coffee Shop Blues by Sebastian Daniels
Coffee Shop Blues is a directory of over 130 of Cape Town’s best coffee shops. Imagine you could get your 11th coffee free no matter which coffee shop you went to? Yup, hear that? That sweet music you hear right now, as you imagine a land of free flowing 11th coffees, is the sound of CoffeeShopBlues. Pun intended.
I’m pretty sure that’s the image Seb had in mind coming up with the name. CoffeeShopBlues curates the best coffee shops in Cape Town for you and runs loyalty programmes that you can interchange between them, all with the purpose of bringing people together to talk optimistically about the future over a cup of coffee!
Their twitter is worth a follow, they share stories about local coffee shops and any specials happening.
A special thank you to NONA for hosting and sponsoring the Indie Hackers meetups.
And another thank you to all the other amazing facilitators that make the meetup a 7-star experience!
Laura Flint, Clive Banditi, Dominic Bauer, Masharty Tembo, Adrian Bunge
Our next event is happening on the 30th of July, RSVP here
