What we build
We build the site or web application your business actually runs on: marketing sites that have to rank and convert, customer portals, booking and enquiry systems, internal tools, and the integrations that connect them to the software you already pay for. Everything is written to be handed over. The code, the hosting and the domain end up in your name, and the documentation is detailed enough that a different team could take it over without ringing us first. Where the requirement is a system rather than a site, with its own data model and business rules, it belongs on the software development page instead.
- Marketing and corporate websites that load fast on Nepali mobile connections.
- Web applications with authentication, roles and real business logic.
- E-commerce storefronts with local wallet and international card flows.
- Content platforms where a non-technical team publishes without calling us.
- Integrations with CRMs, accounting systems and messaging channels.
- Rebuilds of sites that have become too slow or too fragile to extend.
Why performance decides whether the site earns anything
Most website work in this market is judged on how it looks in a screenshot on a desktop monitor. What decides whether it earns anything is how it behaves on a three-year-old Android handset on mobile data outside the ring road. We set a JavaScript budget before the build starts, render content on the server so text is readable before anything hydrates, serve images sized and formatted per device, and self-host fonts instead of pulling them from a third party on a cold connection. Then we measure on a throttled real handset rather than a laptop on office fibre. Real ranking gains from LCP, CLS and INP explains which of those numbers is worth chasing and which is noise.
Search visibility is designed in, not bolted on
A site search engines cannot read is an expensive brochure. Every build ships with a crawlable URL structure, one clear purpose per page, unique titles and descriptions, structured data, an XML sitemap, an image sitemap, canonical tags and analytics configured to answer a business question. The most expensive repair job we get called into is a rebuild that changed every URL without redirects, so if you are replacing an existing site, read how to rebuild without losing the traffic you already have before you sign anything. Where visibility is the whole point of the project rather than a launch requirement, the deeper programme lives on our SEO services page.
Payments, forms and the channels your buyers actually use
A Nepali buyer usually pays through eSewa, Khalti, Fonepay or a bank transfer, and often wants to carry on the conversation in Viber or WhatsApp rather than email. An Australian or American buyer expects a card field and a calendar link. Those are different checkout and enquiry flows, not a setting, and the decision belongs in week one rather than week six. Which payment rails to integrate and in what order sets out the trade-offs. Forms are the other quiet loss: every extra field costs completions, and a form that fails silently when a mobile connection drops loses the enquiry without telling anybody it happened.
WordPress, a hosted platform, or a custom build
We will tell you to use WordPress or Shopify when the requirement is genuinely a blog with a contact form or a straightforward store. Paying a team to rebuild that from scratch is a waste of your money. A custom build earns its cost when the page has to stay fast under load, when the content model is specific to your business, when there is real logic behind a login, or when the site has to keep being extended for years without collecting a dozen plugins that each break on a different Tuesday. Choosing between Next.js and WordPress is the reasoning we use, and we will put the recommendation in writing even when it costs us the larger project.
Working with a Nepali team from abroad
A large share of our work is for clients outside Nepal, and that works when the commercial basics are handled properly: a contract your lawyer recognises, IP assigned to you on payment, invoicing in your currency, and a guaranteed overlap window so decisions are not stuck in a time zone gap. Our week runs Sunday to Friday, which means Sunday is a working day here and Friday is a short one, and Saturday is the weekend. We close for several days at Dashain and again at Tihar, and you get those dates at the start of the engagement rather than the week before. Why international teams outsource to Nepal covers the rest of the mechanics.
What goes wrong in web development, and how we avoid it
- The rebuild that quietly loses the traffic it inherited.
- Before launch we crawl the old site, map every live URL to a destination, and write the redirects into the build. After launch we watch Search Console coverage for a month. A redesign that costs you your rankings has taken money out of the business, however good it looks.
- A content model only a developer can fill in.
- We model content around what the team publishes weekly, not around the launch design. If adding a new service page requires a developer, the site will stop growing the day we hand it over, and that is the point at which most sites start losing ground.
- A homepage that only works on the connection the designer had.
- Hero video, carousels and animation libraries are the usual culprits. We budget page weight up front, test on a mid-range Android over mobile data, and cut whatever cannot justify its cost in seconds.
How we run web development work
- 01
Scope
We work through what the site has to earn, who it is for, and what already exists, including an audit of the current site's traffic and URLs if there is one. You get a written scope, a page inventory and a fixed price before anything is built.
- 02
Design
Sitemap and page structure first, then interface. You sign off on the shape of the site and the component set, not a picture of the homepage, because the twentieth page is where a design either holds or falls apart.
- 03
Build
Front end, content model and integrations built against a staging URL you can open on your own phone at any time. Performance budgets are enforced as we go, so speed is not something we try to retrofit in the last week.
- 04
Launch
Redirects, sitemaps, structured data, analytics and Search Console go live with the site. We check the real thing on a mid-range Android over mobile data before we call it done, and we watch indexation for the following month.
- 05
Handover
Repository, domain, DNS and hosting in your name, written documentation, and a session with whoever will be publishing. A support arrangement afterwards is optional and priced separately, never assumed.
What web development costs
A marketing site is quoted on the Starter tier. As soon as there is a login, a payment flow, a dashboard or an integration with a system you already run, it is a Growth engagement. Either way you get a fixed price against a written scope before anything is built, and change requests are quoted separately rather than argued about later.
Starter
A site that earns its keep.
- Nepal, from
- Rs 65,000
- About $460 at Rs 140 to the dollar
- International, from
- $900
- A$1,400 · €840
3 to 5 weeks
Small businesses and new ventures that need a fast, findable site and a working enquiry pipeline.
Growth
Software behind the front door.
- Nepal, from
- Rs 320,000
- About $2,290 at Rs 140 to the dollar
- International, from
- $4,200
- A$6,400 · €3,900
6 to 12 weeks
Companies that need logins, payments, dashboards or an app, not just pages.
What pushes the price up
- Bespoke page templates beyond the core set, since each one costs design and build time.
- Payments, particularly when local wallets and international cards both have to work.
- Migrating a large existing site, where the redirect map is real work.
- Bilingual content, including Devanagari typesetting and a second URL structure.
- Integrations with systems that have no documented API.
What brings it down
- Copy and photography ready before the build starts.
- Accepting the component set as designed rather than a unique layout on every page.
- One decision-maker who can sign off within a week.
- Phasing the launch: publish the pages that sell, add the rest afterwards.
- Every figure here is a starting point, not a quote. You get a fixed price against a written scope before anything is built.
- Nepali clients are quoted in NPR at local rates, with a VAT invoice against our PAN. International clients are quoted in USD, AUD, EUR or GBP.
- You own the code, the domain and the hosting from day one, on every tier.
Who this is for, and who it is not
Worth a conversation if
- Businesses where the site is a sales channel rather than a business card.
- Teams replacing something slow, unrankable or impossible to edit.
- Companies that need a login, a payment flow or an integration behind the front door.
- Overseas clients who want a documented, transferable build rather than the cheapest one.
Probably not us if
- Anyone who needs five brochure pages live next week and nothing after that. A hosted template will serve you better and cost a fraction of this.
- Buyers whose only criterion is the lowest quote. We are not the cheapest in Kathmandu and we do not try to be.
- Projects where no one on your side can approve anything inside a week. Custom work stalls without a decision-maker.
Frequently asked questions
How much does a website cost in Nepal?
A brochure site for a small business and a customer portal with logins and payments are different projects with different numbers, which is why the tiers above are starting points rather than quotes. We price a fixed figure against a written scope after a scoping conversation, so you are comparing a defined deliverable rather than two guesses.
How long does a website take to build?
A focused marketing site is typically three to eight weeks from signed scope to launch. Web applications run longer and are delivered in stages so something is usable early. The most common cause of delay is not development, it is waiting for content and approvals from the client side.
Will a custom build really be faster than WordPress on Nepali mobile data?
It is faster because of what it does not ship, not because of the framework name. A typical WordPress theme loads a page builder, several plugin stylesheets and a slider library before a visitor sees anything. We ship server-rendered HTML and a small amount of JavaScript. On fibre the difference is barely visible; on mobile data on a mid-range handset it is the difference between reading the page and leaving.
Can you keep our existing content and URLs?
Yes, and we usually should. Keeping URLs that already rank is free traffic. Where a URL has to change, it gets a permanent redirect written into the build, and we verify the map against a crawl of the old site rather than against somebody's memory of it.
Do I own the code, the domain and the hosting?
Yes. The repository, the domain registration and the hosting account are in your name from the start, not transferred at the end as a favour. If you decide to move to another agency, the handover is an afternoon.
Can our team edit the site without a developer?
That is a scoping decision and it changes the price, so we make it explicitly. If your team publishes weekly, we build an editing interface for the parts that change and leave the rest fixed. If the site changes twice a year, an editor is usually a cost with no return.
Do you build on WordPress if we ask for it?
We will tell you honestly whether WordPress is the right answer for your requirement, and for a content-led site with a small budget it often is. What we will not do is build something on a page builder and describe it as custom development.
What happens to our project during Dashain and Tihar?
We close for several days in each festival, usually across October and November. Those dates go into the schedule at the start of the engagement, so a launch is never planned into a week when half the country is travelling. For international clients we also flag them at contract stage rather than mid-project.
