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Cofilo
The operating system for freight forwarders in Africa
Freight forwarders in Francophone Africa manage thousands of packages with WhatsApp, paper notebooks & phone calls. Zero visibility for customers. Cofilo digitizes the entire workflow: package management, real-time tracking, SMS notifications, quote generation (PDF), branch & agent management, and a branded customer portal. Validated with 500+ freight forwarders via Figma prototype. Now building the full SaaS on Vercel.
Hey Product Hunt! 👋
We're building Cofilo — a SaaS platform to digitize freight forwarders (transitaires) across Francophone West & Central Africa.
🚨 The problem:
Freight forwarders manage hundreds of packages daily using WhatsApp groups, paper notebooks, and phone calls. Customers have zero visibility. It's chaotic, error-prone, and completely unscalable.
💡 Our solution:
Cofilo gives transitaires a full digital backbone:
✅ Package management with auto-pricing
✅ Real-time tracking via a branded customer portal
✅ SMS notifications on every status change
✅ Quote generation with PDF export
✅ Branch & agent management
✅ Departure scheduling
📊 Traction:
We validated the concept with 500+ freight forwarders across Cameroon, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire & Benin using a Figma prototype. The demand is real.
⚡ Why Vercel?
We're building Cofilo with v0 by Vercel. The platform's speed, global edge network, and seamless deployments are exactly what we need to serve 12 African countries — fast, even on 3G connections.
The $30k Vercel credits would be a massive accelerant to ship the full SaaS and onboard our first paying transitaires.
Would love your upvotes, feedback & questions! 🙏
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About Cofilo on Product Hunt
“The operating system for freight forwarders in Africa”
Cofilo was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 1 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #41 on the daily leaderboard. Freight forwarders in Francophone Africa manage thousands of packages with WhatsApp, paper notebooks & phone calls. Zero visibility for customers. Cofilo digitizes the entire workflow: package management, real-time tracking, SMS notifications, quote generation (PDF), branch & agent management, and a branded customer portal. Validated with 500+ freight forwarders via Figma prototype. Now building the full SaaS on Vercel.
Cofilo was featured in Productivity (651.7k followers), SaaS (42k followers) and Vercel Day (8 followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 176k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Cofilo?
Cofilo was hunted by Jim Bakoume. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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