Projects

I started my career in the health insurance industry, and I've always been adjacent to the practice of medicine (both personally, and professionaly through my mother who is a healthcare professional). I realised that South Africans have low to zero understanding of the access to healthcare they have, and the costs associated with it. WhatsCovered is a resource and collection of tools that helps South Africans understand what healthcare benefits they can access, either via their private insurance, or through public healthcare resource, to help them make better treatment decisions.

South African has a high unemployment rate, but has one of the highest screen-time statistics in the world. I wanted to build a resource that indexes job postings from various sources, alongside content (articles, videos, etc) that help job seekers improve their chances of getting a job. I am slowly working on this project, but it isn't my main focus. It is a test-bed to experiment with content-marketing, and SEO.

In 2022, I decided to apply to buildspace. I completed s4, and as part of the journey, I built my first SaaS product. It is a tool that allows customers to convert audio and video files to transcripts. It includes a built-in transcript editor. I am not actively working on this project, but it is still live and has a few paying customers.

In late 2020, a friend and I saw the potential in generative AI, and built a LMS that would include context-specific AI tutors powered by the new GPT models. We didn't get any traction. As part of this project, I got to meet some cool founders in EdTech, and realised I didn't have the passion neccessary for the domain.

I built a freelancer marketplace alongside two other founders. We made a few matches, and collected some transaction revenue. But ultimately, we didn't understand the supply/demand curve in our sector well enough to tune the marketplace for success.