Trending now
c/career-growth
A
Agriculture & Farming
3 discussions
A
AI Learning Nepal
10 discussions
C
Career Growth
5 discussions
C
Creative Arts & Media
3 discussions
D
Diaspora / NRN Network
3 discussions
E
Education & Tutoring
0 discussions
E
Entrepreneurship & Startups
4 discussions
+
Explore
27 rooms
Built a Nepali-language RAG over my company’s docs — what worked, what didn’t
Six weeks, internal hackathon project. Stack: Llama 3.1 8B, BGE-M3 embeddings, Qdrant. Worked: BGE-M3 handled Nepali + English mixed docs surprisingly well, no fine-tune needed. Didn't work: chunk size of 512 was too small for our…
0 replies
64 votes
0 replies — be the first
How to fire a difficult client without burning the bridge
Did this twice this year. Both went better than expected. The formula: be the first to say it, give 30 days, recommend two replacements, deliver everything pending without sulking. Both clients sent referrals within 6 months.…
0 replies
62 votes
0 replies — be the first
Switched from banking to product management at 32 — what nobody tells you
Five years at a commercial bank, jumped to a Nepali fintech as a junior PM. Took a 40% pay cut. 18 months later, fully recovered + then some. What helped: - Internal MBA-style PM short-courses on…
0 replies
67 votes
0 replies — be the first
Switching from Node to Go for a Nepali fintech — 6-month report
Migrated our payment reconciliation service from Node to Go in Q4 2025. Real numbers: - p99 latency: 240ms → 38ms - Memory: 1.2GB → 180MB - Hiring: HARDER. Maybe 1 in 10 React applicants knows any…
0 replies
67 votes
0 replies — be the first
Cursor + Claude vs Copilot — which is winning for Nepal-based devs?
Spending 11k NPR/mo on subscriptions feels insane but the productivity is real. Curious what setup other Nepali engineers actually pay for from their own pocket vs company-funded. Comment your stack and monthly burn.
0 replies
61 votes
0 replies — be the first
Agent frameworks reviewed: LangGraph, CrewAI, plain orchestration — pick one
Tried all three on the same workflow (extract + classify + summarise + email). - LangGraph: powerful, brutal learning curve. - CrewAI: easy, breaks at scale. - Plain Python with the SDK directly: most code, easiest…
0 replies
52 votes
0 replies — be the first
2026 Nepal tech salary thread — share role, years, range
Reposting this every 6 months because the Nepal tech market is opaque. Format: Role / Years experience / Range NPR per month / Company size. I'll start: Senior backend engineer / 6 years / NPR 220k–280k…
0 replies
46 votes
0 replies — be the first
How I closed a USD 28k retainer with a US client from Kathmandu
Six discovery calls, two stakeholder demos, one written proposal that took me four days. Final deal: 6-month retainer, USD 28k upfront. Posting the entire timeline + redacted proposal in the next reply. What made the difference:…
0 replies
50 votes
0 replies — be the first
Stopped competing on price on Fiverr — switched to one offer at $250
For 8 months I had 6 gigs starting at $5. Got 1-2 orders a week. Stressful, low margin, race to the bottom. Deleted everything. Made one gig: "WordPress speed audit + 7 specific fixes — 48…
0 replies
48 votes
0 replies — be the first
Do you really need a personal website as a Nepali freelancer in 2026?
Tried both. With site: 12% reply rate on cold outreach. Without site (just LinkedIn + GitHub): 9%. Statistically real but small. Site is worth it if you can build it in a weekend. Skip if it'll…
0 replies
57 votes
0 replies — be the first
How do you handle freelancer burnout when your family thinks you’re jobless?
Three years freelancing, decent income, but my parents still ask when I'm getting a "real job" at NCell or somewhere with a building. The constant explaining is exhausting in a way the work itself isn't. What…
0 replies
44 votes
0 replies — be the first
Fine-tuning a small model for Nepali customer support — when is it worth it vs just RAG?
Spent 3 weeks evaluating fine-tuning a 7B model on 4000 support tickets vs a simpler RAG over the same data. Result: RAG won on accuracy. Fine-tuned model was faster but kept making up product names that…
0 replies
43 votes
0 replies — be the first
STAR-format answers feel fake. What actually works in Nepali interviews?
Did a senior leadership interview last week. Tried the textbook STAR format. Interviewer cut me off and said "just tell me the story." Unpopular take: structured behavioural answers are a US thing. In Nepal, hiring managers…
0 replies
44 votes
0 replies — be the first