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Ghanaian Developer Builds Crowd-Sourced Power Outage Tracker Amid Stack Challenges

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A developer in Ghana is building PowerPulse, a crowd-sourced app that lets residents report electricity outages in real time and view them on a live map spanning all 16 regions. The goal is to identify high-risk areas and provide rough estimates of when power may return, addressing the lack of a centralised outage information source in the country. The app was initially prototyped as a single HTML page before being rebuilt using Next.js, React, Tailwind CSS, and Supabase. Development hit significant hurdles when a server-side rendering conflict caused the interactive map library to fail, since it requires browser-side execution unavailable during Next.js's default server rendering pass. A separate CSS configuration issue also caused silent layout breakages, and both problems remained partially unresolved at the time of writing.

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