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Roast My Stack: AI-Powered USSD Marketplace for 7M Kenyan Farmers

DEV Community·joseph king'ori·27 days ago
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I'm building KamataShamba – an AI agricultural platform accessible via USSD on any basic phone. The Problem Kenyan smallholder farmers: Lose 30-50% of potential income Have no weather/pest alerts Sell to middlemen at 50% below market Can't access credit (no formal history) 60%+ use basic phones only The Solution Feature How Channel Weather forecast AI + satellite USSD Pest detection Image recognition WhatsApp Marketplace Farmer → buyer direct USSD + Web Credit scoring Platform activity Automatic Loans/Insurance Partner integration USSD The Stack yaml Channels: USSD: Africa's Talking API WhatsApp: Twilio/Meta Mobile (future): Flutter Web (buyers/admin): React Backend: API: Python/FastAPI Cache/Queue: Redis Primary DB: PostgreSQL Time-series: TimescaleDB ML: Pest detection: TensorFlow (CNN) Weather forecast: TensorFlow (LSTM) Credit scoring: Scikit-learn Infrastructure: Cloud: AWS (EKS, RDS, S3) Container: Docker Payments: M-Pesa API (C2B/B2C + escrow) Questions for the Community USSD scaling: Africa's Talking…

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