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The Website Bugs We Fix Most Often (and How to Catch Them Early)

Forms that never deliver, Nepali text turning into question marks, times off by fifteen minutes, pages that show old content after an update. The bugs we see on client sites again and again, why they happen and how to fix them.

Abishek BimaliOctober 23, 20265 min read

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Web Development

Upgrading an Old PHP Website: Versions, Risks and a Safe Plan

Thousands of business sites still run on PHP versions that no longer get security fixes. How to check what you are on, what breaks when you upgrade, and a step-by-step plan that does not take the site down.

Oct 20, 20265 min readRead

Mobile Apps

On-Device AI in Mobile Apps: What It Means for Your Next App

Phones now run capable AI models without the internet. What on-device AI is good for, where the cloud still wins, how it changes privacy, cost and offline use, and how to plan an app that uses both.

Oct 5, 20265 min readRead

AI & Automation

AI Agents for Small Businesses: What They Can Actually Do in 2026

What an AI agent is once the marketing is removed, five jobs where agents already pay for themselves in a small business, where they still fail, what they cost to run, and how to start without betting the company on one.

Oct 3, 20265 min readRead

Web Development

How Much Does a Website Cost in Nepal in 2026?

Real price ranges for a business website, an ecommerce store and a web application in Nepal, what actually drives the number up, the running costs nobody quotes, and how to compare two proposals fairly.

Oct 1, 20265 min readRead

Web Development

Building Bihekocard: An Online Biheko Card Maker for Nepali Weddings

Why we built bihekocard.com, what a Nepali wedding invitation needs that generic card makers get wrong, and the product decisions behind 87 designs, Bikram Sambat dates, one shareable link and RSVPs without an app.

Sep 19, 20265 min readRead

AI & Automation

AI Chatbots That Understand Nepali: A Practical Guide for Kathmandu Businesses

Your customers write in Devanagari, in Romanized Nepali and in a mix of both, often in the same message. What it takes to build an AI assistant that handles all three, what it costs, and where it still falls over.

Sep 17, 20266 min readRead

DevOps & Cloud

Where to Host Your App in Nepal: Local Data Centres, Cloud Regions and the Law

Kathmandu data centre, Mumbai, Singapore or a cheap VPS? A plain comparison of latency, reliability, cost and what Nepali privacy law actually asks of you, for businesses and startups deciding where their data lives.

Sep 14, 20265 min readRead

Business Growth

Kathmandu's IT Industry in 2026: What Is Driving the Growth, and What Could Stop It

IT service exports have become one of Nepal's brightest economic stories, and most of that work is done from Kathmandu. What is behind it, what the numbers do and do not show, and the problems the industry has to solve next.

Sep 11, 20265 min readRead

SEO

Site Migration Without Losing Traffic: Rebuild the Site, Keep the Rankings

The redirect map, the pre-launch crawl, the launch-day sequence and the fortnight of monitoring that decide whether a redesign keeps its search traffic or hands it away.

Sep 8, 20268 min readRead

Web Development

Website Maintenance: What Actually Needs Doing Every Month

A maintenance plan worth paying for, separated from the padded retainer: what must be automated, what needs half an hour of human attention monthly, and what only matters when it breaks.

Sep 7, 20266 min readRead

SEO

AI Search Is Answering Your Customers. Here Is How to Stay in the Answer

Assistants and AI overviews now answer questions that used to send a click to your site. What actually changes for your content, your crawl rules and your reporting, and what does not.

Sep 6, 20267 min readRead

Web Development

Passkeys, Practically: Dropping Passwords Without Locking Users Out

Passkeys are supported everywhere that matters. The migration path, the recovery design, the WebAuthn details that bite, and the cases where you should not bother.

Sep 5, 20266 min readRead

Digital Marketing

Marketing Analytics After Third-Party Cookies

Attribution got blurrier and it is not going back. A measurement setup for teams that need to know what is working without pretending to perfect tracking.

Sep 4, 20266 min readRead

DevOps & Cloud

Choosing a Database for a Small Product Without Regretting It Later

Postgres is the answer more often than the internet suggests. How far one instance actually goes, when the alternatives earn their place, and which decisions really force a migration.

Sep 3, 20266 min readRead

Business Growth

Digital Payments in Nepal: What to Integrate and in What Order

eSewa, Khalti, IMEPay, connectIPS, mobile banking, cards and cash on delivery all coexist here. A practical order for adding them, and the failure cases that cost you real orders.

Sep 2, 20267 min readRead

Business Growth

Hiring Your First Developer When You Cannot Evaluate Code

A non-technical founder's process for hiring a first engineer: what to test, what to put in the contract, what a trial should cost, and the structure that protects you if the hire is wrong.

Sep 1, 20267 min readRead

Technology Trends

Tech Updates 2026: What Actually Changed for People Who Ship

A working roundup of the shifts that are real enough to plan around this year, the ones still safe to ignore, and what to do about each on a small team.

Aug 31, 20266 min readRead

Nepal & Society

A Flood Warning System for the Bhote Koshi: What It Would Actually Take

A warning window measured in minutes, a hazard that starts across a border, uneven mobile coverage and equipment nobody is funded to maintain. A build note on the system that would work anyway, and the parts that decide whether it survives to year three.

Aug 30, 20267 min readRead

Nepal & Society

The Bhote Koshi Floods, Explained: Why These Valleys Keep Flooding

Two rivers share the name Bhote Koshi, both come out of Tibet, and both have flooded violently in living memory. Here is the physical mechanism, what sits in the path, and why the warning window is measured in minutes rather than hours.

Aug 29, 20267 min readRead

AI & Automation

Where AI Coding Agents Help a Small Team, and Where They Cost You

An honest account of using coding agents on client work: the tasks where they pay for themselves, the tasks where they generate review debt, the repo setup that makes them useful, and what to tell clients.

Aug 28, 20266 min readRead

DevOps & Cloud

Load Testing Before a Campaign, Without a Performance Team

How to find out whether your site survives launch day: working out the number you need, a realistic test in an afternoon, the metrics to watch, and the cheap fixes that usually suffice.

Aug 27, 20266 min readRead

Nepal & Society

Nepal's Road Crash Data Problem, and What Better Reporting Would Look Like

Road crashes are one of Nepal's most persistent public safety issues, and the data used to fight them is scattered across agencies that never agreed on a common record. Here is what a usable national picture would actually require, field by field.

Aug 26, 20267 min readRead

UI/UX Design

Internal Dashboards People Actually Use

Most internal dashboards get opened twice and abandoned. What separates the ones a team checks daily: one question per screen, one definition per metric, honest numbers and a next action.

Aug 25, 20266 min readRead

Nepal & Society

Designing a Highway Incident Alert System for Nepali Conditions

What it would take to warn drivers about a blocked or dangerous stretch of highway in a country with uneven coverage, mixed handsets and several languages on the same road. Written as a design note, including the parts that usually kill these projects.

Aug 22, 20267 min readRead

Nepal & Society

What an Emergency Response App for Nepal Actually Needs

Most emergency apps are built for cities with one ambulance service, addressed streets and reliable data. Nepal needs a different set of assumptions, and getting them wrong produces an app that fails at exactly the moment it exists for.

Aug 18, 20266 min readRead

Nepal & Society

Monsoon Flooding in Nepal: A Digital Preparedness Checklist for Businesses

Flooding, landslides and long outages disrupt Nepali businesses every monsoon. This is the practical technology checklist to work through in the dry months, in the order it matters, not during the week the road closes.

Aug 14, 20267 min readRead

Current Affairs

How Flood Early-Warning Systems Work, and Why Minutes Matter

A plain explanation of the sensing, interpretation, dissemination and response chain behind a flood warning, what each link costs, and where the chain usually breaks in practice.

Aug 10, 20267 min readRead

Current Affairs

Mapping Flood Risk With Open Data: What You Can Build in a Week

Open elevation, rainfall and settlement datasets are now good enough to produce genuinely useful local exposure maps without a research budget. Here is the honest scope of what they can tell you, and the point at which they stop being trustworthy.

Aug 6, 20267 min readRead

Business Growth

The IT Side of Getting a Business Running Again After a Flood

Water reaches the ground floor and the server cupboard. This is the recovery sequence in the order it actually has to happen, and the one-page plan to write before the next monsoon.

Aug 2, 20267 min readRead

Business Growth

What Shifts in US Tech Hiring Mean for Teams in Nepal

US demand shapes a large share of Nepal's software services work. The structural trends worth planning around, the contract terms that decide how much a downturn hurts, and why nobody can forecast the next quarter.

Jul 29, 20267 min readRead

Business Growth

Selling Software Services to US Clients From Nepal

The gap between a good Nepali engineering team and a US-ready vendor is mostly commercial hygiene: contracts, IP assignment, an invoicing route that works, and an overlap window you keep.

Jul 25, 20267 min readRead

Business Growth

US State Privacy Laws, Explained for Small Product Teams

There is no single US privacy law, there is a growing patchwork of state ones. Here is the shape of the obligations, what to build for them, and where you genuinely need a lawyer.

Jul 21, 20267 min readRead

Consumer Tech

Apple Under Tim Cook: Operations Lessons for Small Teams

Tim Cook came to Apple's top job from operations, and the company's behaviour has reflected that ever since. Several of those habits scale down to a ten-person studio, and several very deliberately do not.

Jul 17, 20266 min readRead

Consumer Tech

What Apple's Ecosystem Strategy Teaches Product Builders

Lock-in gets argued about as a moral question. For a builder it is a design question: what exactly makes leaving costly, which of those costs were earned, and which will regulators eventually take away from you.

Jul 13, 20266 min readRead

UI/UX Design

Designing for Apple Platforms Without Fighting Them

Teams coming from the web make the same mistakes on iOS and macOS, and most come from treating platform conventions as decoration. What to adopt, what to customise, and what App Review will send back.

Jul 9, 20266 min readRead

Current Affairs

How to Read Tech News Without Getting Played

Most technology coverage is downstream of somebody's launch calendar. A field guide to telling announcements from shipments, reading vendor benchmarks, and keeping a roadmap out of the news cycle.

Jul 5, 20267 min readRead

AI & Automation

AI Regulation: What Actually Changes in Client Projects

The policy debate is loud and the practical requirements are fairly boring. This is the part that reaches the codebase, the contract and the procurement questionnaire.

Jul 1, 20266 min readRead

Technology Trends

Chip Supply Swings and Your Product Roadmap

Semiconductor availability moves in long cycles driven by capacity decisions made years earlier. How that reaches a software roadmap, and what to do about it that is not forecasting.

Jun 27, 20266 min readRead

Current Affairs

Climate Tech in South Asia: Where Software Genuinely Helps

Separating the parts of the climate problem that are information problems, and therefore addressable with software, from the much larger parts that are physical and political. Written from Nepal, where the difference is not academic.

Jun 25, 20266 min readRead

Web Development

How to Choose a Web Development Company in Nepal

What to ask, what to ignore, and what a real quote looks like. Written for local and international buyers who have been burned by a cheap site before, including how to decide whether to rebuild or refactor what you already have.

Jun 24, 20266 min readRead

Mobile Apps

React Native vs Flutter: Choosing a Stack, and Living With It

A grounded comparison based on team skills, timelines and long-term cost, plus the three things that decide whether the app feels good once it ships: performance, offline behaviour and notifications.

Jun 23, 20265 min readRead

SEO

Core Web Vitals: Real Ranking Gains from LCP, CLS and INP

What actually moves LCP, CLS and INP, how to set a performance budget that survives contact with a marketing team, and when a progressive web app is worth it.

Jun 23, 20266 min readRead

Technology Trends

The State of Web Development in 2026

What settled, what quietly died, and where a small team should put its attention: frameworks, the edge, TypeScript, serverless trade-offs and the remains of web3.

Jun 23, 20265 min readRead

UI/UX Design

UI/UX Design Principles That Actually Lift Conversion

Design decisions that change the numbers: fewer choices per screen, forms people finish, interfaces built mobile-first, accessibility that widens the market, and a handoff that survives the build.

Jun 22, 20266 min readRead

Digital Marketing

Digital Marketing That Works for Nepali Businesses

The channels that actually return money here, how to run Meta ads on a small budget, what to do with email and Viber, and how to measure it so you know what to stop.

Jun 22, 20266 min readRead

AI & Automation

Shipping AI Features That Users Actually Trust

How to add AI to a product honestly: where retrieval over your own documents works, what it costs to run, what to automate in support, the guardrails content needs, and when the right answer is not to use AI at all.

Jun 21, 20266 min readRead

DevOps & Cloud

DevOps on a Budget: Deploys, Monitoring and Cloud Cost for Small Teams

How a team of three gets reliable deploys, monitoring worth paging someone about, zero-downtime releases and a cloud bill that does not quietly triple, without hiring an SRE.

Jun 20, 20266 min readRead

Web Development

Next.js or WordPress: Picking the Right Foundation

A decision framework based on who maintains the site, what it has to do, and what it costs in year two, plus where a headless CMS fits and where it is overkill.

Jun 19, 20265 min readRead

SEO

A Technical SEO Audit Checklist You Can Actually Run

Crawling, indexing, on-page structure, keyword targeting and links, in the order that decides whether a page earns anything. Including what to do when Search Console says a page was crawled but not indexed.

Jun 15, 20269 min readRead

Web Development

Building an Ecommerce Website in Nepal That Actually Sells

Payments, trust, delivery and the checkout details that decide whether a Nepali online store converts or stalls, from someone who has fixed the stalled ones.

Jun 15, 20265 min readRead

SEO

Local SEO for Businesses in Nepal: The Complete Playbook

How to show up when a nearby customer searches, from Google Business Profile and reviews to location pages that are worth ranking. Written for Nepali businesses, not translated from an American guide.

Jun 14, 20266 min readRead

Mobile Apps

Scoping an App MVP Without Cutting the Wrong Corners

An MVP is not a smaller version of everything, it is the smallest thing that answers one question. How to choose that question, what to keep at full quality, and how to launch it on the stores.

Jun 5, 20266 min readRead

Business Growth

Why International Teams Outsource to Nepal, and How to Do It Well

A clear-eyed look at what works, what to plan for, what it costs, and how the relationship is actually run day to day, from the side that delivers it.

May 27, 20266 min readRead