Question from a learner
“Is a Kathmandu bootcamp worth 40,000 rupees if I have never finished a project?”
Answeredby a working designer
Made in Nepal · Starting with tech
भाग्ने होइन, बनाउने होnot fleeing, building
Where Nepal asks Nepal.
Verified Nepalis, in every field, answering real questions from anyone who wants in.
Free to join. No feeds to game, no points to farm.
From the tech space
What this looks like
Nobody has posted yet. These are examples of the kind of thing the space is for — they are not real accounts.
A backend engineer
8 years, payments · Kathmandu
Your first job here will probably not be at a company you have heard of, and that is fine. What matters is whether one person there reviews your code seriously. I stayed two years somewhere with a bad salary because a senior tore apart every pull request I opened.
A product designer
Fintech · came in from civil engineering
Nobody was going to hand a civil engineering graduate a design job, so for a year I redesigned real Nepali apps and wrote up why I changed what I changed. That folder of unpaid work is the only reason I got an interview. The write-up mattered more than the pixels.
A data scientist
Dharan → Berlin
You do not need a referral, you need a reason for someone to reply. I sent about 200 cold applications from Nepal and got nothing. What worked was writing publicly about a messy dataset for three months. The company that hired me found the posts.
A founding engineer
Two startups, one that worked
Eleven tutorial projects on a CV tell me nothing. One thing that is actually running somewhere, that a stranger has used, tells me you have had a server die at 2am. That is the whole difference.
How it works
Four steps, start to finish. Verification is one of them, not the point of the place — the point is the answer you get afterwards.
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Drop your LinkedIn. A real person on our side reads it and decides — no algorithm, no CV, no interview. Usually a day or two.
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Ask what you actually want to know, or answer someone who's stuck. Your page collects everything you write.
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Connect
Get answers from people doing the job in Kathmandu, Pokhara, or abroad. Earn dhog when your answer actually helps someone.
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What is dhog?
Dhog is what someone gives you when your answer actually helped them. It is named after the gesture of respect you make to someone you look up to — which is the whole point of it.
Given freely it means something. Asked for, it would mean nothing at all — so nobody here asks. There is no button that requests it and no reminder to return it.
Answers are worth more than posts
Helping one person properly counts for more here than a post a lot of people happen to like. That is the opposite of how most feeds work, and it is deliberate.
The person who asked decides
They are the only one who knows whether it helped. When they mark the answer that actually got them unstuck, that counts for more than anything else on the site.
Who gives it matters
Dhog from a verified professional in your own field carries more than dhog from an account made this morning. Verification is a human reading a LinkedIn profile, so a pile of fake accounts adds up to almost nothing.
There is no downvote
No anti-dhog exists, and nothing anyone does can take yours away. If something is unhelpful or wrong you can flag it privately, and a person reads it.
One niche at a time
Tech is open. The rest come later.
Going wide early is how communities end up shallow everywhere. We would rather one field be genuinely good first — then medicine, law, design, civil service, whatever people ask for loudest.
More niches — not yet