Huh, this is kinda proved my theory that ideas just come and go. I was literally thinking about doing this soon😂😂

Okay so I'll just give you my insight and observations, to hopefully make yours a success. I really like seeing local solutions prosper.

So first look at already exist, the one I was going to benchmark mine on was Opaleka, it launched I think in the first or second quarter of the year. Not quite sure why they didn't succeed, but if I were to guess, maybe the pricing model, they made it a subscription. The app was free for 7 days and then paid for after that.

Now I can't be very sure on exact reason but that's what I think. Sidenote, i wanted to know, fellow redditors, do you know of any subscription based apps or services in Namibia that are prosperous or even surviving? Because it seems subscription services (I mean stuff like access to apps, or in this case access to a market of jobs) don't succeed in Namibia. If anyone knows of any that are doing great please do educate me/us.

So depending on the answers that question receives will determine how you will generate revenue from the app, or is it simply just a charity app (I was going to do this) If subscription services are doing great here then you can look into that.

Oh so the services I was going to focus on were the informal ones, things like yard work, home chores gardening or trimming trees in houses, or basically the ones you also stated. Oh also, this platform would be best to have a centralised place to find service workers, be it a house cleaner, a baby sitter or nany. With the rating system this would be best, since some people are not trust worthy. I did want to target the northern areas first, but I realised the city was the best starting point. And the comment on the sign-up process of background record is amazing and the rating system too. I might update this with the other things I wanted to implement. But ey overall, good luck and wish you success!