Ask who is building technology in Haiti and you get a scattered answer: a fintech someone remembers, a news site, two or three apps, a WhatsApp thread of links. The work exists. Finding it in one place did not.
So I built haititechlist — a directory of Haitian tech: companies, products, apps, media, hubs and the people behind them, in Haiti and across the diaspora.
What’s in it
38 listings at launch, sorted into the categories the ecosystem actually has: fintech and mobile money, remittances, edtech, media, telecom, digital agencies, gaming, hubs and incubators, AI, e-commerce, HR and jobs, IT services.
MonCash and NatCash sit next to Sogebank’s and Unibank’s mobile apps. AyiboPost, Le Nouvelliste, Chokarella and Juno7 sit next to AyiboTV. Banj and CEDEL under hubs. Palefo, an AI product working in Creole, in a category that had exactly one entry the day I opened it. That last number is the point of the list: it is a snapshot, and snapshots are meant to be corrected.
How it works
A search bar across the whole list, a category sidebar with live counts, grid or list view, A-Z or reverse sorting. Every listing has its own page with a description, a location, a link out, and app store links where they exist.
The site is bilingual, English and French, because that is how the ecosystem reads. There is a Submit a listing button in the header, and it is the most important thing on the page. I seeded the directory from my own notes, which means it carries my blind spots: I know Port-au-Prince fintech better than I know regional edtech, and I know Haitian companies better than I know Haitian engineers at foreign ones.
Why a directory
Directories look unglamorous next to products. They also do something a product can’t: they make a scene legible to itself. A founder in Cap-Haïtien who can see thirty-seven other entries knows they are not the only one. A developer looking for work knows who to write to. A diaspora investor with an afternoon gets a map instead of a search engine.
It is the same instinct behind ManManPemba, the Yelp-style platform for Haiti I ran years ago: information about Haiti is rarely missing, it is just never collected.
Add what I missed
If you are building something Haitian and technical, or you know someone who is, submit it. Companies, products, apps, media, communities, schools. It takes a minute and it makes the list truer than my notes.
