EskomSePush rockets to #1 as SA's favourite load-shedding app

Load-shedding notification application EskomSePush has seen its number of users grow from 2,500 to more than 400,000 in a week, according to co-founder Herman Maritz.

This follows Eskom's implementation of stage 4 load-shedding - for the first time in history - on Monday.

Business Insider reports EskomSePush is now the most downloaded application on the South African iOS App store, and the second-most downloaded application, behind WhatsApp, in the South African Google Play store.

Maritz and Dan Wells created the app in 2014.

"The system is 100% automated in terms of load-shedding stage changes and push notifications," Maritz told Business Insider.

The duo asked "anyone who is an experienced mobile or JavaScript developer who is keen to work on a useful side-project" to contact them at iwanttohelp@sepush.co.za.