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akani.dev

South African build-and-ship community. Launch your first real product in 90 days with expert support, SA-ready templates, and live office hours.

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What it is

A paid build-and-ship community with a 90-day launch path — combining engineering-led support, South Africa-ready templates, bi-monthly live office hours, and a community that gets members unstuck within 24 hours.

Who it serves

South African builders, founders, and aspiring product makers who have ambition, ideas, and some technical curiosity — but need structure, local relevance, and a practical path from stuck to shipped.

Core value & outcomes

A real product shipped in 90 days — live domain, real users, local payments
Expert engineering support and SA-ready templates instead of abstract tutorials
Community help within 24 hours and bi-monthly live office hours
A practical execution path from stuck to shipped

More detail

akani.dev is a South African vibe coding community built by engineers for people who want to stop circling ideas and start shipping real products. The promise is simple: ship your first real product in 90 days — a product you can actually charge money for, with local payment integrations like PayFast or Yoco, a live domain, and real users. This is not a tutorial hub. It is an execution environment built around a three-step journey: onboard as a Founding Member, build with structured expert support (weekly tutorials, SA-ready templates, community help within 24 hours, bi-monthly live office hours), and ship something real within 90 days.

Products shipped by members

Real products shipped through the 90-day discipline.

Each of these is a real product shipped by akani.dev members — live briefs, not tutorials, built under akani.dev standards and the 90-day build-and-ship promise. Live domain, real users, local payments where it matters.

Community sponsorship platformBuilding

StreetFoundation

A community sponsorship platform shipped by akani.dev members and gifted to Mr. Thabo Dithane for his 60th birthday. It supports township students through structured sponsorship, tracking, and community engagement — a live product under the 90-day build-and-ship discipline.

Directory platformPlanned

IncubatorHub

A discovery platform for South African incubators and accelerators, built by akani.dev members using an AI-enriched data pipeline (crawl4ai + Claude Haiku) — shipped to live users, not left as a half-finished side project.

Multi-tenant SaaSPlanned

Employee Wellbeing Software (EWS)

A multi-tenant employee wellbeing platform being shipped by akani.dev members on a production-serious stack (JHipster 8, Keycloak, Redis, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes) — a real platform for HR leaders and wellbeing providers, not a spreadsheet.

Stack: JHipster 8 · Keycloak · Redis · RabbitMQ · Kubernetes

Proof

From stuck to shipped.

Once Founding Members start launching, this is where their products land. Real names, live domains, real payment integrations — the evidence behind the 90-day promise.

Member launch

First member launches coming soon

akani.dev is in its Founding Member phase. The first cohort of shipped products will appear here — each with a live URL, payment integration, and a real customer.

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Platform for DevelopersBuilding

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Join akani.dev

Ship your first real product in 90 days.

Stop circling ideas. Get expert engineering support, SA-ready templates, bi-monthly live office hours, and a community that helps you unblock within 24 hours. A live domain, local payments, real users — in 90 days.

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