Sakshyam Baral

Founder of Laayo · Full-stack developer

I build products for Nepal from Kathmandu: the apps, the backend and the servers they run on.

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Sakshyam Baral · founder & developer

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laayo/ qora/ laayo-biz/

cat stack.txt

Go · Next.js · Swift · Kotlin · Redis

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335 stars · 378 forks · coding since 2018

335 Stars on repositories

3.27K Commits

378 Repositories forks

91 Github Followers

What I'm building.

Live products, used every day in Eastern Nepal.

Laayo

2025

Founder, CEO & lead developer

Food and grocery delivery in Birtamod and Damak. Three apps, a Go backend and live tracking.

laayo.com.np ↗App Store Google Play

qora.laayo.com.np

Qora

2026

Founder & developer

Fonepay QR payments for Nepali businesses. An API, payment links and counter QR.

qora.laayo.com.np ↗

biz.laayo.com.np

Laayo Biz

2026

Restaurant POS

Tables and KOT, kitchen stations, inventory and accounting. Web, Android and desktop.

biz.laayo.com.np ↗

LaayendraAI agent that watches live orders and messages riders

Rider RushA running game inside the order tracking screen

Ship It 2026Platform for a student build competition I am organising

Laayo Help CenterHelp guides plus an AI assistant that answers from them

Case studies.

The engineering behind Laayo, in depth.

Building the Laayo connector for ClaudeA Go MCP server that lets people order Laayo food from Claude: narrow tools, prices decided by the server, and an OAuth server built into the same binary.A money ledger that checks itselfPorting Laayo's money logic to Go as explicit, locked, idempotent plans, and a read-only replay that recomputes history and found real bugs in the legacy code.Live rider tracking with Redis GEO and WebSocketsHow rider GPS flows from a phone to a Redis GEO index, through pub/sub to WebSocket and SSE viewers, and into a marker that glides instead of jumping.Moving Laayo from Laravel to Go, one route at a timeA strangler-fig migration of a Laravel monolith to Go: per-route switches, shadow comparison on live traffic, write diffs, a release gate and instant rollback.Interactive architecture map →Apps, Go services, Redis, MariaDB, search, payments and AI. Hover any part.

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What went live lately.

Laayo Mail now loads remote images through our own proxy, while spam and suspicious mail still ask first
10 Nov
Laayendra now alerts the ops team on WhatsApp about stuck orders and relays their replies to riders
10 Nov
Laayo Mail now shows sender pictures from the team directory, brand logos or site icons
10 Nov
Laayo Mail now sends push notifications for new mail, even when the app is closed
10 Nov
Asking Laayo Mail's AI to write a new email now fills in the subject and recipient too
9 Nov
Laayo Mail's AI bar can now polish a draft, change its tone or switch it between Nepali and English
9 Nov

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Writing.

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10 Nov 2026 · 4 minFrom Discord bots to a delivery companyHow I learned to code: HTML in Discord communities, a music player, Node bots shared as open source, React and Next.js, school events, and then Laayo.8 Nov 2026 · 5 minStaging with a copy of production, and nothing gets outA staging server loaded with a real production copy, where SMS, mail, push, calls and payments are blocked by data scrubbing and a per-user firewall.8 Nov 2026 · 2 minGateway timeouts on the home screenA peak-hour 504 burst traced from nginx through Apache to a PHP-FPM pool with eight cold workers, and the pool change that fixed it.

Ask about my work.

A short answer with links to where I wrote about it.

Answers come only from what I have written on this site, with links to the source. Questions are logged so I can see what people want to know.

How I work.

What a team gets when I join.

Team management

I lead the team behind Laayo: riders, store partners and the people who keep orders moving. I plan the week, split the work into clear tasks with one owner each, and keep everyone on one shared plan so nobody is stuck waiting. As Event Manager at JCI Nepal I run events with volunteer teams from plan to wrap-up.

Production-level code quality

Every change goes from tests to staging to production, never straight to live. I write typed Go and TypeScript, keep code small and readable, review security on each feature, and watch errors and performance after every release.

Reliability and communication

Laayo takes real orders and real payments every day, so I build for failure: health checks, alerts, backups and fast rollbacks. When something breaks I say so early, explain it in plain words and follow up with what changed.

Working with me

About me.

I started coding at the end of 2018, building websites with HTML, CSS and JavaScript in Discord developer communities.

I learned Node.js by making Discord bots and shared them as open source. Then React, Next.js and Tailwind, and then real products: apps, backends and servers.

In July 2025 I started Laayo. Today it delivers in Birtamod and Damak, and I'm building Qora next to it. Outside code, I'm Event Manager at JCI Nepal, Birtamod.

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