Walk into any township in the Eastern Cape and you will find the same rhythm. Young people are testing ideas. A delivery service that understands township distances.
A booking tool for salons. A stock system for spaza shops. A learning platform for school learners who need structured support.
For years these ideas stayed trapped in notebooks because the cost of building digital products was far too high. A basic app could cost more than a small business makes in a month. The result was a province overflowing with ideas but unable to convert them into products.
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But now the world has shifted. A global movement in technology has quietly made its way into SA. No-code tools and open-source artificial intelligence have slashed the cost of entry.
Instead of hiring a full development team, a single entrepreneur can now build a functional product using platforms designed for ordinary people. Bubble is one of the clearest examples. It is a platform that allows you to build real applications through visual tools.
You drag, connect, design and test your idea as if you were moving pieces around a board. You create databases, user accounts and workflows without writing traditional code. What once required high costs and long timelines can now be built in days.
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