NamHub 2026 Release

The year, phase by phase

Each phase below is a shipped milestone except where the status says otherwise. Status is current as of October 2026.

1. V1.0 — Foundation Release

   LIVE

   June 2026

   The first shippable platform: verified housing, a national directory and an emergency module, in a browser rather than an app store.

   • Verified housing engine

     Long-term rentals, student housing and nightly stays, with listings reviewed before publication and stays priced on the server.

   • Dual-track national directory

     Public and government infrastructure — embassies, state hospitals, ministries, police — is kept structurally separate from commercial business, so a civic office never looks like a paid listing.

   • Emergency SOS module

     Real-time GPS coordinate capture and regional responder directories, reachable from any page.

   • Chameleon Color Engine

     The accent palette shifts to match hero photography, keeping the interface tied to the place rather than a fixed template.

   • Initial 10-hub coverage

     Seeded foreign missions, major shopping centres and core services across the ten primary regional hubs.

2. V1.1 — Trust, Documents & Monetization

   LIVE

   August – September 2026

   NamHub became a business: paid tiers, international checkout, enforceable leases and reviews that cannot be used as retaliation.

   • Five subscription tiers

     Free, NamHub Pro (N$49/mo), Host Plus (N$99/mo), Host Pro (N$149/mo) and Host Max (N$299/mo), with entitlements resolved from the purchased product.

   • Automated Paddle checkout

     International card payments with localized NAD and ZAR pricing, and a webhook that grants exactly the tier that was bought.

   • Digital Lease Generator

     A Party A / Party B workflow with landlord and tenant fields, producing a document that can be verified later.

   • Double-blind reviews

     A rating publishes only once both sides have submitted, which removes the retaliatory-feedback problem of one-sided review systems.

   • Contact Reveal ledger

     Contact details are released through a ledger with balance controls and fraud checks, so bulk scraping stays visible and rate-limited.

3. V1.2 — Platform Hardening & Enterprise Governance

   RECENTLY SHIPPED

   October 2026

   A three-phase engineering programme across trust, documents, billing and delivery — the work that makes the platform safe to hand over.

   • AI Scam Detection Engine

     Reported listings and suspicious host profiles are scored for rental fraud in real time by a server-side model, and high-risk reports reach the admin queue with the evidence attached.

   • SHA-256 tamper-evident leases

     Completed digital leases carry a cryptographic audit hash, printed on the PDF and checkable at /documents/verify/$ref. Editing a signed lease breaks the hash.

   • Automated landlord KYC gate

     Property publication is blocked until the host's National ID or passport is cleared in the admin queue, with the approval screen linking straight to the pending record.

   • WhatsApp viral preview engine

     Dynamic per-listing OpenGraph cards and one-click WhatsApp inquiry hooks, so a shared link renders a real title, description and image.

   • Edge caching & PWA privacy

     Cache policy is applied in the Cloudflare worker (src/lib/edge-cache.ts) and Service Worker v9 keeps authenticated areas out of device storage on shared phones.

   • Billing integrity

     The purchased Paddle product now decides entitlements; a tier declared in the browser is only a catalogue-drift fallback, closing a self-service escalation path.

   • Surface cleanliness

     Legacy taxi and wallet surfaces retired behind 301 redirects to /guide/transport and /account/settings, with wallet tables kept for refund and audit history.

   • Governance and release gates

     Typecheck, lint, test and build gates, a migration security scanner, a fourteen-task engineering governance report and a release checklist covering migrations, cache headers, billing and trust checks.

4. V1.3 — Acquisition Handover & Multi-Country Ready

   IN PROGRESS

   Q4 2026

   The platform is being packaged for a new owner and prepared for the region. This is the phase in flight today.

   • Migration data room

     Buyer migration guide, technical architecture specification, environment and billing setup, and an onboarding walkthrough of the admin surfaces.

   • Multi-country schema readiness

     Schema and configuration groundwork for SADC expansion into Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe without forking the codebase.

   • Local banking rails blueprint

     A documented integration plan for FNB EFT, PayToday and DPO Group alongside the existing Paddle checkout.

   • Thirty-day handover

     Post-sale technical and operational support covering deployment, the Supabase project setup, the Paddle catalogue and the review queue.

5. V2.0 — Long-Term Platform Vision

   ROADMAP

   2027 and beyond

   What comes after the handover: native distribution, regional deployments and an assistant that answers in plain language.

   • Native mobile distribution

     iOS TestFlight and Android APK / Play Store builds, for users who prefer an installed app over the progressive web app.

   • Cross-border SADC deployments

     Country-specific directory and housing deployments built on the multi-country schema prepared in V1.3.

   • NamHub Scout

     An AI rental assistant for natural-language property matching — "a two-bedroom near Katutura under N$6,000" — grounded in verified listings.