Crowdsourced price intelligence to fight daily inflation
Madagascar's abundant natural resources (vanilla, nickel, graphite, biodiversity) generate wealth that flows through external systems, leaving citizens with power cuts, broken roads, precarious jobs and rising prices while perpetuating national dependency.
VidinyWise lets Malagasy citizens and entrepreneurs report and access real-time prices of staples, fuel, vanilla, and imported goods. The app sends spike alerts, suggests cheapest local alternatives, and shows trends connected to national resource exports so users can make smarter buying and selling decisions instead of suffering silently from rising prices.
Malagasy citizens and local entrepreneurs living with daily infrastructure collapse and economic exclusion despite national resource wealth
Correlates local market prices with global vanilla/nickel/news events, giving users early warning signals that generic price trackers cannot provide.
empowering
Report current market prices with product, price, quantity and photo in under 15 seconds.
Search any item and see cheapest options within radius with verified timestamps.
Notifications when prices of followed items rise more than 8% in 48 hours.
Dashboard showing your monthly spending trends vs market average.
Special section tracking vanilla, graphite, clove and other national resources.
Charts showing 30/90-day price movements by city.
Simple ML model suggesting optimal purchase windows.
Verified local wholesalers with current offers.
| Column | Type | Nullable |
|---|---|---|
| id | uuid | No |
| phone | text | No |
| primary_city | text | No |
| created_at | timestamp | No |
Relationships:
| Column | Type | Nullable |
|---|---|---|
| id | uuid | No |
| name | text | No |
| category | text | No |
| is_resource_linked | bool | No |
| Column | Type | Nullable |
|---|---|---|
| id | uuid | No |
| user_id | uuid | No |
| product_id | uuid | No |
| price | int | No |
| latitude | text | Yes |
| longitude | text | Yes |
| market_name | text | Yes |
| verified | bool | No |
| created_at | timestamp | No |
Relationships:
| Column | Type | Nullable |
|---|---|---|
| id | uuid | No |
| user_id | uuid | No |
| tier | text | No |
| status | text | No |
| current_period_ends | timestamp | Yes |
Relationships:
/api/prices/reportSubmit new price observation
/api/prices/searchSearch current best prices by product and radius
/api/alerts/subscribeSubscribe to price movement alerts
/api/trendsGet price trend data for dashboard
15 searches/day
None
Up to 5 team members
| Month | Users | Conversion | MRR | ARR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month 1 | 680 | 11% | $2,618 | $31,416 |
| Month 6 | 5,200 | 16% | $29,120 | $349,440 |
Real-time crowdsourced market data and early warnings tied to Madagascar's own resources.
Seed with vanilla farmers and market vendors in Antalaha and Sambava through agricultural co-op partnerships. Offer free Entrepreneur tier for 90 days to first 100 reporters. Run geo-targeted Facebook campaigns in major urban markets offering referral bonuses in mobile money.
Huge existing user base
Unstructured, unreliable data, no alerts or trends
Structured verified data, alerts, analytics and resource correlation
Massive localized price dataset that grows more valuable with every report, especially for Madagascar-specific commodities.
Inflation reached record levels in 2024 while mobile internet costs dropped, making real-time price intelligence both necessary and feasible at scale.
Price data manipulation by vendors
Photo verification + community voting + outlier detection algorithms
Low reporting volume in rural areas
Incentive system (points redeemable for airtime) and regional ambassadors
Success: ≥70% positive response
Success: Average 12 reports per user per week
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