Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm Eilmer, a filmmaker and documentarian from Kampala, Uganda — and the founder of Wano. I built Wano because every short-form platform I used treated African content as a category inside someone else's global feed, ranked by an algorithm built for a different audience. Wano flips that: content is organized by language and community first, there's no sign-up wall to start watching, and the whole thesis is "community over algorithms, culture over clicks." We've crossed 50,000 downloads with zero ad spend, growing fastest in Uganda, Nigeria, Ghana, and Kenya — and we're testing whether the model travels to Brazil next. Would genuinely love your feedback — what would make this better for you or people you know from these communities? Happy to answer anything about the product, the growth so far, or what building this from Kampala (not Silicon Valley) has looked like.

Wano

Africa & the diaspora, one scroll at a time

Africa & the diaspora, one scroll at a time