Dar es Salaam · Masaki

Web developer for Masaki, Oysterbay and Msasani.

The peninsula runs on being chosen. Restaurants, cafes, hotels and serviced apartments, clinics and dental practices, salons, spas, boutiques, gyms, tour operators and property agents. Almost nobody here is the only option, so the decision usually comes down to whichever place looks better on a phone at seven in the evening.

These are also the businesses whose customers search in English, arrive from Google Maps, and expect to book without phoning anyone.

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Tanzanite Bridge, Msasani. Photo: Mangapwani, 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

People do not choose a restaurant. They choose the better photographs.

Someone deciding where to eat, stay or book an appointment on the peninsula is comparing four places in a browser tab each. They are not reading. They are looking at pictures, checking the menu or the price, and picking whichever one made that easy. A site that looks good and answers those two questions in ten seconds wins the booking from a better business with a worse website, over and over.

Apartment buildings and a flowering flame tree on a street in Oyster Bay — A street in Oyster Bay. Photo: Xiaotong Gao, CC BY-SA 3.0

02 · Who it is for

Who I build for on the peninsula

Restaurants, cafes and bars in Masaki, Oysterbay and Msasani
Hotels, guest houses and serviced apartments
Clinics, dental and specialist practices
Salons, spas, gyms and studios
Boutiques, galleries and lifestyle retail
Tour operators, property agents and short-let managers

03 · What you get

What a website in Masaki needs.

Photography leads, words follow
The layout is built around your images because that is what the decision is actually made on. If the photos are not there yet, that gets sorted before the site goes live rather than after.
Booking without an app
A table, a room, a treatment or a viewing, reserved from the page in a few taps. No download, no account, and it lands with you by email and WhatsApp.
A menu that is not a PDF
Nobody wants to pinch-zoom a scanned menu on a phone. Yours becomes a real page you can change when the kitchen changes, without calling me about it.
The Maps listing and the site agreeing
Most of your customers find you on Google Maps first. The hours, the phone number and the address on your listing and on your website have to match exactly, or Google trusts neither. I set both up together.

Everything on the services page is available in Masaki and Oysterbay, 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 Masaki and Oysterbay.

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

Instagram shows people you exist. It is poor at the next step. Your hours, your full menu or price list, directions and a booking button are all things a customer wants in one place, and a feed buries them within a week. The site is where the decision gets made, and the Instagram feed can sit on it.

Yes. A short booking form that reaches you by email and WhatsApp covers most restaurants, clinics and salons without a monthly fee. If you want a proper calendar with live availability, that can be built in too.

Yes. For anything that changes with the season or the kitchen, you get a page you can edit from a phone. Nobody should have to pay a developer to change the price of a coffee.

Yes: Masaki, Oysterbay, Msasani and the surrounding Kinondoni area. I work across all of Dar es Salaam, so being a little further out is not a problem.

06 · Also covering