Duraan Ali

Duraan Ali is the founder and lead developer of TayoPro, a web design and development studio based in Edina, Minnesota. Over the past fourteen years he has delivered more than 220 projects — marketing websites, custom web applications, and mobile apps — for small businesses, charter and private schools, mosques and community centers, home care and behavioral health providers, and nonprofits across Minnesota.

His work concentrates on the organizations most agencies overlook: the ten-person clinic, the immigrant-owned service business, the charter school with one part-time communications coordinator, the nonprofit whose entire technology budget is smaller than a single enterprise retainer. Those clients need websites that load fast on an old phone, that a non-technical staff member can update on a Tuesday afternoon, and that actually turn a Google search into a phone call.

He writes about practical web strategy for Minnesota organizations: what a website really costs here, how local search works in the Twin Cities, when a custom application beats another spreadsheet, and how to tell a good proposal from an expensive one.