Dar es Salaam · Kariakoo

Web developer for Kariakoo businesses.

Kariakoo is where a large share of Tanzanian trade actually changes hands. Congo Street, Msimbazi, Nyamwezi, Swahili Street, Uhuru Street, and the market at the middle of all of it. If you sell hardware, electronics, fabric, phone accessories, packaging or general goods out of a shop or a godown here, I build the website that lets people buy from you without walking past your door.

I am based in Dar es Salaam, so quotes are in shillings, we work the same hours, and nothing has to be explained twice.

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A street in Kariakoo. Photo: Prof. Chen Hualin, CC BY-SA 4.0

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

Your shop reaches the street. A website reaches the country.

Kariakoo already brings you the people who are physically in Kariakoo. The buyers you are not reaching are the ones in Mwanza, Arusha, Dodoma and Mbeya, and across the border, who currently have to phone somebody to find out whether you carry what they need. A website answers that question at two in the morning, in full, without you picking up.

Traders setting out goods outside Kariakoo Market in the morning — Kariakoo Market in the morning. Photo: Ismizotz, CC BY-SA 4.0

02 · Who it is for

Who I build for in Kariakoo

Wholesalers and importers who want a catalogue upcountry buyers can check before they travel
Hardware and building supply shops with a long, constantly changing stock list
Electronics, phone and accessory dealers
Fabric, clothing and textile traders on and around Congo Street
Packaging, stationery and general merchandise suppliers
Clearing and forwarding agents working between Kariakoo and the port

03 · What you get

What a website in Kariakoo needs.

Light enough for a phone in the market
Your buyer is standing in a crowded street on a patchy connection with a half-charged phone. Pages are built to open in a couple of seconds on that connection, not on office fibre.
A stock list you update yourself
Prices and availability move constantly here. You get a catalogue you can edit without calling me, so what is on the site is what is in the godown.
The order starts on WhatsApp
Nobody in Kariakoo fills in a long enquiry form. Every product gets a WhatsApp button that opens a chat already saying which item it is about.
Wholesale and retail kept apart
If your trade prices are not for the public, they do not go on the public page. The catalogue can show what you carry without showing what it costs.

Everything on the services page is available in Kariakoo, 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 Kariakoo.

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

Because the ones who do not come are invisible to you. A buyer upcountry deciding where to place an order looks first at who they can see. If a competitor has a stock list online and you do not, they get the call. The shop serves Kariakoo. The website serves everyone who is not standing in it.

Yes, and for a Kariakoo business that is the whole point. You get a simple page where you edit items, prices and availability from your phone, with no code and no waiting on me.

They can start the order from the site. Each item gets a WhatsApp button that opens a chat with the product already named, so the conversation begins with you knowing exactly what they want. Full online payment can be added later if you decide you want it.

Yes. Plenty of Kariakoo businesses need to be findable without publishing what they charge. The catalogue shows what you carry, and the price is something the buyer has to ask for.

06 · Also covering