Rohan Karn

Why Goket moved from WordPress to apps

Goket started on WordPress, and with thousands of products the site became too slow to use. They went mobile first: a customer app on Android and iOS, a rider app and a new website, with no designs, no existing code and two months to launch.

Building the customer app, rider app and admin dashboard

• Customer app in Flutter for Android and iOS, with phone number sign in, a fast catalogue and order tracking
• Home screen controlled from the admin dashboard, so layouts, banners and featured products change without a new release
• Rider app with order pickup, an optimized delivery route on Google Maps and payment collection at the door
• Admin dashboard for orders, products and app content
• Over the air updates with Shorebird, so fixes reach phones the same day
• New website in React, built for SEO and visibility in AI search tools
• UI designed from scratch around how people shop for groceries: fast search, clear categories, short checkout
• Shipped to the App Store without an iPhone: set up a Mac mini, fixed two rejections and handled the DUNS registration so Goket publishes under its own name
• Fonepay payments for both apps in progress, held up by local rules on payment APIs

Flutter, Dart, Shorebird, Google Maps, Fonepay, React, Android, iOS

Why I built a password manager

Google Password Manager warned me that one of my saved passwords had appeared in a data breach. It made me think about where my passwords actually live and who controls them. I wanted to understand how a password manager works from the inside, and to build one where the vault stays with the user instead of on a company’s server.

Building a vault with no server

• Vault stored in the user’s own Google Drive. There is no CryptKey server, so there is nothing of mine to hack
• Password generator for strong passwords
• Import from other password managers, so switching is easy
• Designed the UI with no design background, testing and redesigning until it felt simple to use
• Moved storage from my own database to the user’s Drive, removing the backend entirely
• My first app on the Play Store, published and maintained by me. The latest update supports Android’s 16 KB memory page size

Flutter, Dart, Google Drive API, Android

What the client wanted

A chartered accountant who works with hydropower companies wanted a place where Nepali startups could present themselves and investors could discover them, with a design that stood out. He found me through the Goket website.

Building the public site, admin panel and Go backend

• Public website where startups submit details about their business and investors browse them
• Admin panel where the team reviews submissions and publishes them
• Go backend powering submissions, review and publishing
• Studied startup and investment platforms on Dribbble and elsewhere, then sketched layouts on paper before building
• Color scheme built around red, Nepal’s national color, since the platform is for Nepal only

Go, Next.js, PostgreSQL

What NES Tech needed

An IT services company in Kathmandu needed a site that explains what they do and gets prospective clients to contact them.

Designing and building the website

• Designed and built the full website
• Service pages and a contact path for new clients

Web