I build software for the way Nepal actually works.
I've been making websites since 2012. Today I'm business development manager and a shareholder at Global Opportunities Nepal. Alongside that I build my own products, and I help other businesses work out what's worth building, and what isn't.
Two products of my own, the company I help run, and a business I built for.
My product · Live
Carpooling between cities in Nepal. People were already finding rides in WhatsApp groups, so I studied how they did it and built a proper home for it: find a driver going your way, or fill the empty seats in your car, and pay in cash or by mobile banking. I built it on my own, and I'm still working on it.
My product · In development
Digital invitations for weddings, bratabandha, pasni and puja: one link on WhatsApp, with Bikram Sambat dates, a map and RSVPs. I'm building the platform and made the first designs myself. Nepali designers will be able to sell their own on it.
Business development manager & shareholder
An education consultancy that helps Nepali students study abroad. I look after marketing, how we look online, where money leaks and what sets us apart. I also built our website and the Study Abroad Readiness Check, which tells a student in two minutes whether they can study in six countries.
Client website
A real estate company in Sanepa, Lalitpur. I built their website from the start: ready for listings and projects, with each kind of enquiry sent to the right person.
Code is the smaller part of the job.
I'm from Nepal. I started with computers young, and in 2012 I built my first website that actually worked. I've been building ever since.
Along the way I found out that code is the smaller part of the job. I've managed projects, become a shareholder in several businesses, and now work in business development every day. That taught me what software is for: helping a business earn more or waste less.
It also made me careful with money. When you own part of a business, every rupee spent on technology is partly your own. So when someone asks me to build something, my first question is whether they need it at all. The honest answer is often something smaller.
Outside work: I run Arch Linux (by the way), I bungee-jumped at Bhotekoshi as a teenager, and I've flown an ultralight over Pokhara. Some of that ends up on my YouTube channel, next to what I'm building.
I work with businesses on apps, websites, AI and anything in between. Usually that means three things:
Before you agree to anything, I give you two numbers: what it costs to build, and what it costs every year to keep running. Most people only ask about the first.
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