About

Small studio. Practical technology.

The studio

Light Bulb Ideas Studio is a digital product studio founded and run by Blessing Phokedi in Gaborone, Botswana.

It is small on purpose. You deal with the person building your project, not an account manager.

Some of our work is our own: Bantu Plaza and FinChat Hub. The rest belongs to organisations that needed a capable digital team without hiring one.

We build websites, web applications and WhatsApp systems. What interests us most is technology people here will actually use, not impressive demos that quietly get abandoned.

Work with us See our work

Five questions

We don't just build what we're told.

Because we build and run our own products, we know what it takes to get from an idea to something real. Every project gets the same five questions.

The user

Will people actually understand and use it?

The business

Does the product solve a real problem?

The technology

What is the simplest practical way to build it?

The experience

Does it feel easy, professional and trustworthy?

The future

Can it grow beyond version one?

The goal isn't to build more technology. The goal is to build something useful.

Our ventures

Bantu Plaza

A Southern African language-learning platform: self-study lessons plus live classes with native-speaker tutors, bookings and payments.

View bantuplaza.com

FinChat Hub

People check what they qualify for and connect with financial service providers in a WhatsApp chat. Live in Botswana and Zambia.

View finchathub.com

Have a problem worth solving?

Tell us what you are trying to do. We will tell you honestly what it takes to build it, with a clear quote before any work starts.

Start a project

blessing@lightbulbideas.studio WhatsApp +267 76 875 986