Posted by: sthapit July 23, 2010
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I got two emails regarding this thread so I thought I'd respond. First of all in no way am I claiming that sodne.com is high tech :) I'm not a software guy - I'm a one man shop and code as a hobby in the evenings. My other sites related to Nepal are harilo.com (beta), lukeko.com, and palopalo.org (alpha) - I use Rails + postgresql if anyone wanted to know.
Regarding Lalitpur on the site - it's not an error - the site is "hyperlocal" and based on GPS coordinates - so you can search for stuff around you (versus by city). I use google to geocode (i.e. convert addresses into latitude and longitude) and turns out google gives a higher preference to India than Nepal when you geocode "Lalitpur". Try this: http://maps.google.com -> Lalitpur. It's unfair but you can enter "Lalitpur, Nepal" when posting on sodne.com to get the correct coordinates.
As far as not reinventing the wheel and using a CMS, I think it's kind of like buying a tract home versus getting a home custom built. Those who can (have money, time, or skills) will code their site and those who can't... can't. I wanted something hyperlocal, especially for Kathmandu which doesn't have street addresses you can look up (which is also the premise behind milnu.com and lukeko.com). That way you can see that someone at is selling their couch which for Kathmandu is a lot more useful than seeing that someone in Ward 5, Patan is selling their couch. Or you can go to lukeko.com and download recommended restaurants in Kathmandu to a Nokia phone (or iPhone, Android device) - you can then ask very interesting questions with a GPS enabled phone like "what are the top rated japanese restaurants within a half mile of my location".
Stay hungry, stay foolish...
Last edited: 30-Jul-10 12:29 AM