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Field-Testing Gari Me: What the Jamhuri Car Bazaar Taught Me About User Feedback
Field-Testing Gari Me: What the Jamhuri Car Bazaar Taught Me About User Feedback Overcoming the noise to build something real. Before heading to the Jamhuri Car Bazaar yesterday to market garime.co.ke, I turned to X for some guidance. While a few people pointed me in the right direction, several actively discouraged me from making the…
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SaaS Product Development: Building Multi-Tenant Architecture for African Markets
Picture this: you’ve built a brilliant software product that solves a real problem for schools in Nairobi. Within weeks, five schools sign up. Then ten. Then fifty. Suddenly, you’re managing fifty separate databases, fifty deployments, and fifty times the headaches. There’s a better way. It’s called multi-tenant architecture, and it’s the backbone of every successful…
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How I Archived Our Legacy AWS Setup and Got Ready to Cut All Bills to Zero
We recently migrated AgriHerd (our agri-ecommerce platform) from AWS to a Contabo VPS with Docker Compose and GitHub Actions. The old infrastructure, an EC2 instance, RDS database, and ECR repository — was no longer being used. It was time to shut it down to avoid any surprise AWS bills. But I didn’t want to just…
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How Vital Digital Media Built an AI-Powered Lead Generation Engine Using Kenyas Public Tender Data
Victor Karanja · May 23, 2026 · Lead Generation, Automation, Kenya Every day, the Kenyan government awards contracts worth billions of shillings to companies across the country. These are companies that are actively growing, have fresh budgets, and need to deliver results — which means they need professional web design, SEO, and digital marketing services.…
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NSE Weekly Wrap: NASI Climbs Past 206 as Kakuzi and Nation Media Lead a Bullish Charge
The NSE closed the week with NASI at 206.21 (+10.52% YTD). Kakuzi surged +6.18%, Nation Media jumped +5.32%, while Sasini plunged -8.74%. Equity Group saw nearly 5M shares trade hands.
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99 Performance. 100 Best Practices. 100 SEO.
This is the green wall every developer dreams of when building a modern web application. When building the NSE Academy platform, the goal wasn’t just to make it look clean; it had to be lightning-fast, perfectly optimized, and highly discoverable.A lot of people think hitting these numbers on a feature-rich, dynamic app requires sacrificing functionality.…
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The Making Drip Emporium Online Store
At Vital Digital Media, we love turning bold ideas into thriving online businesses. Our mission is to empower innovators, entrepreneurs, and forward-thinking brands to connect with their customers in a powerful and scalable way. The Drip Emporium Online Store project is a perfect example of how we can bring a client’s unique vision to life…
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Leveling Up with AI-Powered Social Media Automation
Today, I’m excited to share something that’s been quietly working behind the scenes at Vital Digital Media our first fully autonomous AI social media agent built on n8n.io, ChatGPT, Google Sheets, and Simple Memory for Drip Emporium. ? The Problem: As a growing fashion brand, maintaining consistent, high-quality, engaging product promotions on Twitter was time-consuming…
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Building Brands that Endure
In an era defined by rapid digital saturation, simply having a product, a service, or a slick UI is no longer sufficient. To truly resonate, a brand must possess a soul—a unifying principle that guides every interaction. At Vital Digital Media, we believe that branding is not an overlay; it is the fundamental infrastructure upon…
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The Architecture of a Multi-Tenant Capital Raising Platform
In the world of fintech and capital raising, the barrier to entry isn’t just a good idea—it’s infrastructure. When dealing with high-stakes financial data, regulatory compliance, and multiple stakeholders, “good enough” software is a liability. I built CapitalOS to solve this problem: a cloud-based, multi-tenant platform designed to streamline the capital raising process for founders…