Astawq : Ethiopian Rentals

Mekbeb Worku

About this app

Astawq is a mobile app that allows users to quickly find a rental house or roommates. It also lists Ethiopian services and service providers such as baby sitters, hair stylists, tax professionals, lawyers, cafes, restaurants, photographers, movers, travel agents, Ethiopian DJs and online merchandise sellers.

You can also find music Ethiopian music from popular YouTube Channels. In addition to that, users can tune to popular Ethiopian channels for the day to day life and events related to Ethiopians. We have also introduced Ethiopian movies and dramas like Senselet and Betoch.

Astawq's service is not limited to Ethiopian diaspora residing in the United States, Canada and Europe. Users in Ethiopia’s major metropolitan cities like Addis Ababa, Dire Dawa, Bahir Dar, Jimma, Gondar, Dese, Mekelle, Hawasa, Nekemte, Adama (Debre-Zeit) and Nazreth (Bishoftu) will also find it useful due to urbanization and population explosions that is outpacing housing infrastructure projects such as condominiums and apartments.

The app also helps eliminate the expenses Ethiopian small businesses and service providers incur to market themselves. It fosters quick findability in an easy to use listing based on category, location and search functionalities built within the app. The App is also created having local tradition in mind and we will make regular updates to add more features and list of service providers as we see fit.

Astawq currently lists the following services
• Ethiopian house rental
• Roommates seeking to share rooms
• Ethiopian babysitters
• Ethiopian markets and convenient stores
• Tax professionals
• Lawyers
• Ethiopian cafes and restaurants
• Hair stylists
• Ethiopian DJs
• Ethiopian news commentaries
• Ethiopian Movies
• Ethiopian Song
• Ethiopian music
• Ethiopian movie
• Photographers and Video service providers for events like wedding, graduation, birthday anniversaries and events
• Car sellers
• Movers
• Travel Agents
• Buy & Sell

Listing your product or service in Astawq is easy. You will have to register first with your email account and create an account by providing username and password. Once you created your account, you can post any ad using the available category. If you do not see the name of the service you are planning to provide, please reach out to us using the contact us section so we can create a category for you. You can also use “Other Services” as a category if you do not want to reach out to us. You can modify any posts you made using your own account. You can remove your ad once you felt you do not need to list your service anymore using the provided dashboard.

Ratings and reviews

After installation, it didn't let me complete the authentication part. I'm getting error message (authentication failed). Is this because I'm using a ethiopian phone number? Does it work by only using USA phone no? I didn't get a chance to use it yet but giving it 3 stars since other people told me that it is a good app.

The only app to find different Ethiopian services in Usa. However for me I couldn't create an account or create a post. I tried it multiple times but nothing happens when I try to press the buttons. Unless to see posted stuffs and settings. I hope you will fix that soon.

Excellent!!! user friendly app. Developer took time to make it easy to use for us all. No more flipping through news papers to locate services plus putting out my ad was a breeze. Beautifully made app and love it.

What's new

Fix for Editing Listings