Web developer in Nairobi

The single most expensive mistake I see in Nairobi is a site built to impress the owner rather than convert the customer. Animation on the hero, the phone number in an image, the price hidden behind "contact us". Each one is defensible on its own and together they cost real money every month.

One thing worth knowing about building for Kenya

M-Pesa is the checkout, not an alternative to it. An STK-push flow behaves nothing like a card form — it is asynchronous and the confirmation arrives by callback — so the order state machine has to be built for it from the start.

Why Nairobi sites are built to be edited by you

A site you cannot update is a site that decays. Prices go stale, staff leave, the opening hours are wrong for six months. So the parts of a Nairobi build that change often — text, images, prices, opening hours, team members — are editable by you without touching code or paying me.

That is a design decision with a cost: it takes longer to build an editable block than a hard-coded one. It is worth it because the alternative is a maintenance dependency that benefits me and not you, and a developer whose income depends on you being unable to change your own opening hours is not aligned with your interests.

Healthcare and clinics in Nairobi

Clinics carry a compliance weight most businesses do not. Appointment forms collect health information, which is a special category under Data Protection Act 2019, and it cannot be emailed to a generic inbox or written to a plain-text log. That constraint has to shape the build rather than be bolted onto it afterwards.

Beyond compliance the deciding factor is reassurance: practitioner names, registrations a patient can verify, honest pricing, and what actually happens at a first appointment. Anxiety is why people delay booking, and a site that reduces it outperforms one that merely looks modern.

A redesign that quietly deleted the rankings

The classic disaster: a new site launches, looks far better, and organic enquiries fall off a cliff within a fortnight. The cause is almost always identical — the URLs changed and nothing was redirected, so every page that had accumulated years of authority now returns a 404.

Preventing it is a redirect map built before launch: every old URL to its closest new equivalent with a 301, and anything without an equivalent pointed at the nearest relevant page rather than the homepage. If your Nairobi site is being redesigned by anyone, ask to see that map. If it does not exist, that is the entire risk in one document.

Hiring a developer who is not in Nairobi

A Kenyan business hiring outside Kenya is usually doing it for price, and price is the least interesting reason. The more durable one is availability: a one-person supplier answers you directly rather than through an account manager who has to check. That is an advantage on a small project and a genuine liability on a large one, which is why I turn down projects that need a team.

What I am not claiming about Nairobi

A location page is the easiest place on a website to imply something untrue, so here is the other side of it plainly:

• I have no office, postal address or phone number in Nairobi
• I cannot meet you in person, and if that is a requirement you should hire locally
• I am not claiming existing clients in Nairobi specifically — my live work is listed on the work page and you can check it
• Nothing on this page is a guarantee of search rankings, which no developer can honestly offer

Nairobi web development — common questions

What payment methods can my Nairobi checkout accept?

For Kenya: M-Pesa via Daraja, plus Flutterwave and Pesapal for cards. The right combination depends on your average basket and your customers, and picking wrong is expensive — the payment method a buyer expects but cannot find is one of the most common reasons a checkout is abandoned at the final step.

How do you handle our customers' data under Data Protection Act 2019?

Your customer data is governed by the Data Protection Act 2019, and sending it to a developer in Pakistan is a restricted transfer. That is resolved by the ODPC requires proof of appropriate safeguards, which the DPA supplies, published on this site and pre-signed before you send an enquiry — not drafted after you ask about it.

What hours will you be available to us in Nairobi?

My working day lands at 07:00–16:00 in your time, which is roughly 7 hours inside a normal Nairobi working day. In practice you can raise something in the morning and have it answered the same morning, and a scheduled call is easy to place at a civilised hour for both of us.

How long does a Nairobi project actually take?

Three days for a business site, seven for a store, ten for a custom application. That holds because the process is fixed rather than improvised and because your content exists on day one. What stretches a build is almost never the code — it is waiting for copy, logos and photographs, so those are requested before the clock starts.

Do you provide ongoing maintenance after launch?

Thirty days of snag fixes are included after launch at no extra cost — anything that does not work as specified gets fixed. Beyond that there are monthly plans for updates, backups, monitoring and small changes. They are optional and cancellable; a site handed over properly does not require a retainer to keep running.

Can you fix my existing site rather than rebuild it?

Often, yes, and it is usually the cheaper answer. Speed problems, a broken mobile layout, a form that silently fails or missing structured data are all fixable on the site you already have. I will tell you which of the two you need after looking, and a rebuild only gets recommended when the fix would cost more than starting again.

What happens if I am not happy with the result?

Work is delivered in milestones against a written scope, and you review each one on a staging URL before it is paid for. If the delivered milestone does not match the scope, it gets corrected before anything moves forward. That structure exists so disagreement is resolved at the stage it happens rather than at the end when it is expensive.

Where this page sits

This page covers Nairobi. Every other town in Kenya is listed on the Kenya coverage page, and the full worldwide list is at all locations.

Before you enquire: pricing is published rather than quoted on request, how I work covers the process end to end, the work page lists live client sites you can open, and vendor information answers the procurement questions.