How NamHub Works
What we check, what we don't check yet, and how the site makes money. This page is meant to be read by someone deciding whether to trust a listing, so it only describes things that are actually running today.
How Listings Get Onto NamHub
Nothing publishes itself. Every rental listing and every commercial directory entry has an approval status, and only entries a reviewer has approved are visible on the site.
Where the data comes from
- • Hosts and businesses submitting their own details
- • Namibian public sources for government offices and services (ministry listings, municipal contacts, OpenStreetMap)
- • Corrections and additions sent in by people using the site
What a review actually involves
- 1. The entry is created or submitted
- 2. A person on our team reads the name, address, category and contact details
- 3. It is marked approved, or sent back with a note
- 4. Approved entries appear in search and on the map
What we do not do yet
- • We do not phone every business to confirm it is still trading. If a number is wrong, tell us and we will fix it.
- • We do not visit or photograph premises.
- • We do not re-check every entry on a schedule. Entries are reviewed when they are added, claimed or reported.
- • No landlord has completed an ID check yet, so no listing carries an ID-checked badge.
What the Labels on a Listing Mean
Sample
A demonstration listing, not a real home you can rent. We use these to show how the housing section works while Namibian landlords come on board. Sample listings are labelled everywhere they appear.
Verified / Indicative / Pending
Directory entries carry the confidence level recorded when we added them. Verified means the details came from an official or first-party source; Indicative means a secondary source; Pending means we still have a gap. It is a record of the source, not a live check that a business is trading today.
ID checked
A landlord can submit an ID document and a selfie; a reviewer then marks the submission verified or rejected. The badge only appears after that review. This process exists and is open, but no submission has been verified yet.
How Listings Work
For Properties
A host submits a listing. NamHub reviews it before it appears in the housing section. Contact details are gated — revealed via pay-per-reveal or a subscription.
For Businesses and Services
Commercial listings are reviewed before going live. Contact details are gated.
For Emergency & Public Services
Emergency contacts, government offices and public services are always free to access — no gate, no subscription. They are not wrapped in the reveal gate.
How We Make Money
NamHub is a business. Here is exactly how it generates revenue.
1. Pay-Per-Reveal
Users pay a small fee to see the contact details of a commercial listing. Government and emergency contacts are never gated.
2. Subscriptions
Hosts and businesses pay monthly or annual fees for listing management, analytics and unlimited reveals.
3. Promoted Listings
Businesses can pay for featured placement in search results, always labelled as promoted.
What Is Always Free
- • Emergency SOS — permanently free, no exceptions
- • Public directory browsing
- • All government and public service contacts
- • NamHub housing search (viewing listings, not revealing host contacts)
- • Emergency Stays access
Platform Architecture
NamHub is a mobile-first Progressive Web App built with React, TypeScript and Supabase. It runs in the browser on any device without an app-store download. The database runs on Supabase with row-level security on every table. Emergency contact data is cached locally so the SOS module still works when the connection drops.