DITHub is a private social network built for our college: class groups, a student marketplace, short videos, anonymous confessions and instant alerts — in one fast app that installs on any phone.
Every module was written for this campus — not switched on from a template. They share one account, one notification inbox and one visual language, so nothing feels bolted on.
Posts, photos, likes and comments from everyone on campus, in one timeline.
Full-screen photo and video stories. Long videos are trimmed to 50 seconds automatically.
A full-screen video feed: swipe once, land on the next reel, double-tap to like.
Sell a textbook, buy a phone, rent a hostel slot — search, categories and the seller one tap away.
Class, course and club groups with join requests and a live discussion feed.
An anonymous wall for the things students usually only whisper.
Private chat that stays open, with typing indicators and live delivery.
Find a classmate by course, year or stream instead of scrolling through chats.
SMS-style notifications on the phone, with one-tap friend requests and replies.
Registration number, course, year and stream sit right on the student profile.
Add DITHub to the home screen and keep an offline copy of recent posts.
Switch features on or off, manage courses and streams, moderate content, watch the hub.
DITHub was not built to collect likes. It was built around the small, daily frictions of campus life.
DITHub was designed, written and deployed in-house on open-source software. The table below is an indicative commercial value of the same scope at today's agency rates — it shows the size of the build, not a bill.
| Module | What is included | Indicative value |
|---|---|---|
| Branding and interface design | Logo, colours, layout system and mobile-first screens | $1,200 |
| Student accounts and academic profiles | Registration-number sign-up, onboarding wizard, course data | $900 |
| Stories | Photo upload, automatic 50-second video trim, full-screen viewer | $1,100 |
| Reels | Snap-scrolling video feed, likes, comments, sharing | $1,300 |
| Marketplace | Listings, search, categories, seller contact, add and edit flows | $1,600 |
| Groups | Directory, creation, join requests, live discussion | $1,000 |
| Confessions | Anonymous posting with moderation tools | $600 |
| Real-time engine | WebSocket hub with automatic fallback when the socket drops | $1,400 |
| Notifications and push alerts | Every campus event, delivered to the phone like an SMS | $1,200 |
| Installable app (PWA) | Home-screen install, icons, offline mode | $500 |
| Admin control panel | Feature switches, moderation, campus lists, hub health | $900 |
| Deployment and hardening | Server setup, SSL, backups, performance tuning | $600 |
| Total, as a commercial build | Twelve modules, one account, one deployment | $12,300 |
No subscription, no advertising and no paid tier. The network exists for the campus, not for a vendor.
Every layer runs on open-source software. Nothing on this site depends on a paid licence.
A single VPS carries the site, the database, the real-time hub and the push alerts — about $12 a month.
Figures are an estimate of commercial replacement value (≈ TZS 33 million at current rates), prepared to describe the scope of the work. They are not a quotation or an amount paid.
Nothing here is experimental. The parts were chosen so that a page still opens when the network is weak, and so that the whole thing can be maintained by one person.
Every account is tied to a student registration number. This is not another public social network — it is the college, online.
The site, the database and the media all live on our own server. No third-party trackers, no advertising pixels, no data sold.
Posts, stories, reels, listings and comments can be deleted by the person who created them, at any time.
Your name, your registration number and a password. That is the whole form.
Pick your course, year and stream so classmates can find you.
Class groups, course groups and clubs — ask to join and start talking.
Add DITHub to your home screen and the alerts arrive like text messages.
Yes. There is no subscription, no advertising and no paid tier. Students never pay to use DITHub.
Students of the college. Sign-up asks for a registration number along with your name, so the network stays inside campus.
Yes. Pages are built to load without the media first: videos only download when you open them, and the installable app keeps a copy of recent posts for when the network drops.
Yes. Posts, stories, reels, listings and comments can be removed by the person who created them, at any time.
Join with your registration number and see who else is online.