Mystique1337/naija-solar

Voice-first solar sizing for Nigeria in five languages. Every model under 4B. Built for the Build Small Hackathon. # ☀️ Naija Solar **Say what you run at home, in your own language, and get the exact solar system you need.** Naija Solar is a voice-first solar-sizing assistant for Nigeria. Speak, type, or photograph your appliances in **English, Nigerian Pidgin, Yorùbá, Hausa, or Igbo**, and it works out the panels, inverter, and battery you need, prices them against a real Nigerian catalogue, draws your home in **2D and 3D**, and **reads the plan back to you in your own language**. Every model it uses is **under 4 billion parameters**. 🔗 **Live app:** huggingface.co  ·  💻 **Code on GitHub**  ·  📣 **Launch post on LinkedIn** 🎥 **Two demos:** **the Gradio app**  ·  **the hand-built UI**  ·  🏆 **Build Small Hackathon** (Gradio × Hugging Face) · 🇳🇬 Built in Nigeria · ⚖️ MIT **▶️ It is a live Gradio app.** Open the Space, choose your language, then speak, type, tap an example, or snap a photo, and it sizes itself. A bespoke single-page edition of the same engine is one tap away at **`/classic`**. --- ## Why it exists Electricity in Nigeria is something you plan your day around. The grid shows up for a few hours if you are lucky, and the rest of the time the streets fill with the sound of petrol generators. Solar is the obvious way out, the sun is free and panels have never been cheaper, yet almost no one makes the switch. The reason is not the hardware. It is that solar is never explained in a way an ordinary person can act on. - **About 90 million Nigerians have no reliable electricity**, the largest access gap of any country on earth, and the country spends roughly **14 billion dollars a year** running generators to fill it. - **More than one in three adults cannot comfortably read** a vendor quote or a spec sheet. Adult literacy sits near 62 percent, and far lower in parts of the north. - **English shuts most people out.** Nigeria has over 500 languages; tens of millions live their …