Unified Discovery
One browse and search experience spanning music, podcasts, video and radio, so a listener moves between formats without changing mental model.
Kwot Music
Streaming built around African music and the people making it
Kwot is a streaming platform for African music, podcasts, video and radio. The hard part was never playback — it was discovery. Getting a listener in another country to the right track, show or station, and giving the creators behind them somewhere to grow an audience.
- Sector
- Media & streaming
- Surface
- Web and mobile
- Audience
- Global, Africa-first
- Focus
- Discovery and creators
Catalogue is easy. Being found is not.
A streaming catalogue is only as good as the path a listener takes into it. Four content types — music, podcasts, video and radio — each behave differently, and a single browse experience has to make all of them feel like one product rather than four apps bolted together.
The second problem is the supply side. Creators will not keep uploading to a platform that gives them no sense of who is listening or how to reach further, so the tooling behind the catalogue matters as much as the catalogue itself.
What we built
Playlists and Curation
Listener-built and editorially curated playlists, with the surfacing rules that decide what a given listener sees first.
Creator Ecosystem
Upload, catalogue management and audience visibility for the artists, podcasters and stations publishing to the platform.
Streaming at Distance
Playback tuned for listeners far from the origin, where bandwidth is uneven and a stall costs the session.
Built with
- React
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- PostgreSQL
- Media CDN
- Cloud storage
What it changed
- Four content types presented through one coherent discovery surface
- Creators can publish and manage their own catalogue without a gatekeeper
- Playback holds up for a global audience, not only local listeners