Dar es Salaam

Web developer in Dar es Salaam.

JS Solutions is Jay Shivram, a web developer and designer based in Dar es Salaam. I design and build websites for businesses across the city, from wholesalers in Kariakoo and law firms off Samora Avenue to restaurants and clinics on the Masaki peninsula, and for clients elsewhere in Tanzania and abroad.

Every site is designed from a blank page for the business it belongs to, built to load fast on a phone, and set up so the business can be found on Google from the day it launches.

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Dar es Salaam from the air. Photo: Roland, CC BY-SA 2.0

12
projects live that you can open and click through
3–7 days
to launch a one-page site, once your text and photos are in
1 year
of domain and hosting included in every website package
2
languages to work in: English and Swahili

Work you can open

Judge the work, not the pitch.

Client projectBusiness website2026

Pentagon Solutions

The website for Pentagon Solutions, a national distributor of security equipment in Tanzania: Hikvision CCTV, networking, gate automation and electric fencing, with a product catalogue, brand pages, technician workshops and a free site survey request.

Product catalogue
Storage calculator
Technician training

Client projectPortfolio website2026

Deep Jiwan Portfolio

A personal CV and portfolio for Deep Jiwan, a security solution engineer and computer science graduate: his home lab drawn as an isometric network map, with a route you follow down the page through his projects, experience, education and certificates.

Digital resume2026

Jay Shivram Digital Resume

My own CV as a website instead of a PDF: an animated gradient opening, then experience, projects, skills, education and certificates as numbered sections, with the PDF CV still one click away.

Content website2026

Iron Verse

A reading site for nine collections of poetry, built around serif typography and a quiet dark theme, with search, a blog, and accounts for readers who want to save their place.

Desktop tool + landing page2026

EFD Verify

Reads a TRA receipts report, verifies every EFD receipt, catches duplicates, and writes the ledgers straight into TallyPrime, turning a month-end typing job into a few seconds of processing.

01 · Why it pays here

In a city this size, the business people find first gets the call.

Dar es Salaam is the largest city in Tanzania and its commercial capital, and for almost anything a customer needs there are dozens of businesses offering it. Most people start that search on a phone and rarely scroll far. A clear, fast website that says what you do, where you work and how to reach you is what turns that search into a message to you rather than to the next name on the list.

Panorama over central Dar es Salaam, with new towers going up — The city skyline. Photo: Jojona, CC BY-SA 4.0

02 · Who it is for

Who I build for in Dar es Salaam

Traders, wholesalers and importers in Kariakoo and around the port
Law firms, auditors, brokers and consultancies in the city centre
Restaurants, hotels, clinics and salons in Masaki, Oysterbay and Msasani
New businesses that need to look established from the first day
Schools, NGOs and associations that need a clear public face
Professionals who want a personal site or a digital resume

03 · What you get

What a website in Dar es Salaam needs.

Designed for the phone in your customer’s hand
Most visitors arrive on a phone, often on a patchy connection. Every page is designed for that screen first and kept light, so it opens instead of stalling.
Found on Google from day one
Every build includes a Google Business Profile set up for you and the site submitted to Google, with titles, descriptions and structured data written for each page.
Quoted and paid in shillings
Packages are priced in Tanzanian shillings and published in full on the pricing page, with your domain and hosting for the first year included.
Yours to keep
The domain, the hosting account and the site are in your name once the project is paid for and live. No lock-in, and nothing held back.

Everything on the services page is available in Dar es Salaam, at the prices on the pricing page. You can see finished sites on the work page.

04 · How a project runs

Four steps. No surprises.

Discover
Design
Build
Launch

First callLive: 5–10 days for a site of up to five pages

Discover
A short call about your business, your customers, and what the site needs to do for you. No jargon, no pressure.
Design
A first look at the layout, colours, and type, built around your content, not a generic template.
Build
The design becomes a real, working site. You see progress along the way, not just at the end.
Launch
The site goes live on your domain, checked on phone, tablet, and desktop before you share it with a single customer.

05 · Questions

Questions from Dar es Salaam.

If yours is not here, send it over. You get a straight answer, not a sales call.

Because the things that decide whether a Tanzanian website works are local. Most of your visitors are on phones and many prefer to start a conversation on WhatsApp. Prices are quoted in shillings, and we work in the same time zone. A developer abroad can build a website. A developer here builds one for the people who will actually use it.

Live work you can open and click through, not just screenshots. A price and a timeline agreed before any work starts. Confirmation that the domain, hosting and site will be in your name. And someone you deal with directly. Every project on the JS Solutions work page is live, the prices are published, and you deal with me from the first message to launch.

It depends mostly on how many pages you need and whether you want to edit the content yourself. JS Solutions publishes every package with its price or price range in Tanzanian shillings on the pricing page, and every package includes your domain and hosting for the first year.

A one-page site takes 3 to 7 days, and a multi-page site of up to five pages takes 5 to 10 days, depending on how ready your text and photos are. You get a timeline before any work starts.

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