Ayiti Remit

Overview

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Sending money to Haiti involves fees, exchange rate spreads, and delivery time tradeoffs that are nearly impossible to compare without visiting each provider individually. Most existing comparison tools don’t cover the Haiti corridor at all.

Ayiti Remit is a fully static Hugo site that fetches live remittance rates from major providers and presents them in a clean, mobile-first comparison table — built specifically for the Haitian diaspora in France, Canada, and the United States.

How it works

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A Python script runs on a GitHub Actions cron schedule, fetches rate data from provider APIs, and commits updated JSON directly to the repository. Hugo reads that data file at build time and generates the comparison table — no backend, no database, no running costs.

import httpx, json, pathlib

providers = ["sendwave", "worldremit", "remitly", "wise"]

rates = {}
for p in providers:
    r = httpx.get(f"https://rates.example.com/{p}?corridor=HTG")
    rates[p] = r.json()

pathlib.Path("data/rates.json").write_text(
    json.dumps(rates, indent=2)
)

Design decisions

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• Static-first: no server means zero maintenance cost and instant global delivery via CDN
• Open architecture: the rate-fetching script is modular — adding a new provider is a one-file change
• Mobile-first: the diaspora community sends money primarily from smartphones

What’s next

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• Historical rate chart so users can track spread trends over time
• SMS alert for favourable rate windows
• Extended coverage to providers serving Miami and New York