Stories from the Alpas Lab
Dispatches, experiments and playbooks from building software — custom products, mobile apps and business platforms for companies, and civic systems with Nepal’s cities.
OpenAI Launched Always-On Agents the Day After Cancelling a Model for Ignoring Instructions
OpenAI's dots work on your goals around the clock, on GPT-6 Astra, across ChatGPT, Slack and Teams. What launched, what the timing…
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Nagarik Alert in the News: 6,500 Complaints, 500 Fixed, and a Disaster Role We Never Planned
Ratopati featured Nagarik Alert in English and Nepali. Roughly 6,500 complaints registered in four months, 500+ resolved, 20,000+ …
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Higgsfield Opened Its API. The Open-Source Clones Just Became Customers.
The $5.4 billion AI video platform did not open-source its code — it opened a pay-per-use API to 50+ models, and the community stu…
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AI This Week: Siri Gets a Brain Transplant, Robots Write the Code, and the Industry Taps the Brakes
Apple shipped a Gemini-powered Siri, Anthropic revealed Claude writes 80% of its code, and OpenAI's CEO floated slowing down. What…
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The iPhone Duo Is Here: How We’re Getting Apps Ready for the Foldable Era
Apple just shipped its first foldable iPhone, and the “foldable question” stopped being optional. Here is how our iOS and UI/UX en…
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Custom Software vs. Off-the-Shelf: Which One Does Your Business Actually Need?
Every growing business hits the same wall. The spreadsheets multiply, the manual work piles up, and someone finally says it out lo…
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From Complaint to Action: LMC Alert & Nagarik Alert
For years the experience of reporting civic issues in Nepal was defined by long queues, unanswered calls, and the belief that noth…
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Inside Alpas Labs: Rituals Before We Design & Build
Launching civic and martech products for cities means every sprint must be decisive. Inside Alpas Labs we follow a repeatable set …
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AI Sherpa: How We Co-built a Civic Assistant
In late 2024 Lalitpur Metropolitan City asked us to explore how AI could reduce misinformation during health scares. The result—ni…
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Playbooks that Turn Pilots into Citywide Wins
Every bold product starts as a scrappy pilot. The hard part is maintaining momentum once the press release fades and operations ne…
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How much revenue can you generate through mobile app in 2021
Have you ever thought about how much revenue you generate from your mobile application? The answer here actually depends on differ…
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Tips for Nepali eCommerce Businesses
Convenient shopping experience is a hot cake as consumers demand it. The pandemic on the other side still continues to affect the …
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What is a Good UX?
In this blog, we will be covering what UX is, how UX help your business succeed, and how we (At Alpas Technology) create good UX.
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“Doing business through social media” (6 tips to start / boost your company through social media)
Social media is any digital medium that allows users to generate and exchange content with the audience easily. One of the easiest…
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Verify COVID-19 risk with a smartphone!
The first thing every individual wants now is to know the risk of COVID-19 within themselves. This is where VIRUFY is working with…
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10 things that we do before designing and developing a website
Building a website for the first time? Here are the top 10 things that one must understand how we build a website.
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Participate in the "Lockdown, Waste-Down" contest
We are in the middle of a crisis that is impacting each one of us. With full hope that you are doing what is necessary to stay saf…
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The Android Buildup at Alpas Technology
Welcome to the “The Android Buildup at Alpas Technology” page. If you are in search of a great crew for Android Application Develo…
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Covid-19 Pandemic and Alpas Technology
Crisis is an unpredictable situation and it can happen at any time, and companies should respond as quickly as possible when the c…
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The Covid-19 Pandemic, and Ongoing “Lockdown Waste-Down” Contest Day-2
Many organizations are dealing differently on this Pandemic situation. The contest being organized by Upcycle Nepal, most of the F…
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Coronavirus (COVID-19) Awareness | Nepal
Coronavirus (COVID-19), is a newly discovered virus that is transmitted between animals and people. The general symptoms include f…
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Importance of e-commerce websites for your business
You own a retail shop that is growing rapidly and you are wondering whether or not to expand to your marketplace? Now, you don’t h…
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Leaders and Followers | How Leaders Build Credibility?
In order to be successful at any stage, both the followers and leaders must be effective and supportive of one another. The relati…
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Know the different types of Followers, Leaders!
As a leader, have you ever had the followers who are passive but lacks responsibilities? Or, who needs your direction always and e…
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Best Communication Tools for Workplace
Communication is what all of us do. One of the way we communicate is by sitting in front of computer and mobile devices, hit keybo…
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Best Project Management Tools for IT Projects
Handling multiple projects, keeping everything organized in human memory and email is a total disaster. When you are working with …
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Leo Social Business Challenge 2021 - Solving Problemts through Business
Leo Social Business Challenge is an idea pitching forum open for all age groups. This incubator program provides a group of busine…
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Why should your business have a website?
Ok, Imagine!
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