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PaMarket.
PaMarket is an online marketplace that I designed and built for Zimbabwe. People use it to buy and sell, find work, rent or buy cars, and discover verified businesses, on the web and in the iPhone and Android apps.
Its tagline is in Ndebele: Konke Endaweni Eyodwa: everything in one place.
What it is
An online marketplace and jobs board
Where
Zimbabwe, across all 10 provinces
Platforms
Website, App Store and Google Play
Currencies
US dollars and ZiG, with a live rate
My role
Product design and software development: apps, website and backend
Built with
React Native, Expo, TypeScript, Supabase, PostgreSQL
Status
Live, with real listings
My role
How I built it
I designed the product and developed it end to end: the iPhone and Android apps, the website and the backend.
Mobile apps
React Native and Expo, in TypeScript, published on the App Store and Google Play
Website
A JavaScript progressive web app at pamarketzw.com
Backend
Supabase and PostgreSQL
Notifications
Firebase
The film
Why I built it
Live today
Real screens
The website at pamarketzw.com and the PaMarket app for iPhone and Android.
The problem
Why I created it
In Zimbabwe, buying, selling and job hunting were scattered across many different group chats and social media posts.
There was no proper search, no categories, and no protection for the buyer or the seller.
I built PaMarket so that people have one trusted place for all of it.
The product
What it does
Marketplace
Buy and sell across all 10 provinces, from phones and electronics to property and farming.
Jobs
Employers post vacancies and people find work in the same place.
Verified businesses
Businesses and institutions are verified before they are listed.
Cars
Cars for sale and car rental in their own sections.
Two currencies
Prices in US dollars or ZiG, with a live exchange rate.
Safer trading
Fraud screening, escrow protection and 24/7 WhatsApp support.
The impact
Who it helps
Buyers
Find what they need faster, and trade more safely.
Sellers
Reach people across the whole country, not just one group chat.
Job seekers
See real vacancies in one place.
Also built
FixHub
A maintenance ticketing system for property managers. A manager can log a job, assign it and track it until it is fixed. I built it because maintenance requests were getting lost in group chats.