Antananarivo’s Tech Scene Is Quietly Booming — and via.mg Is Part of It

Antananarivo’s tech scene rarely makes international headlines, but it has quietly grown past the point of being a curiosity. A handful of small, self-funded teams are building real products end to end – hosting, backend, design, support – out of the same conditions that used to only produce outsourced coding shops. via.mg, the link shortener behind this very plugin, is one example among several: built, hosted and maintained in Madagascar, for anyone anywhere who wants a short link and a clean social preview without handing their data to a large foreign platform. It’s a small proof that a serious piece of internet infrastructure does not need to be built somewhere else.