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Websites for an empty data bundle

Pages that load on a borrowed phone at the end of the month.

Tombo, Developer1 min read · March 12, 2026
A yellow poda-poda minibus painted ALL ABOARD, with luggage on the roof

Most of the people who visit our clients’ sites do it on a phone with a nearly empty data bundle. So Tombo builds for that first.

No video backgrounds. Self-hosted fonts. Art drawn as code so it weighs almost nothing. The fast version is the only version.

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