Since 11 September 2018

Seven years. Not a straight line.

Alpas started in 2018 to build civic technology for the municipalities around Kathmandu. This is what happened next — every date below is sourced, and the sources are shown.

Momentum since day one — shape is illustrative, not a metric · marked events are real · hover for the year

What happened, when

11 September 2018Founding
Founded in Lalitpur by five
Five founding members — Er. Yujesh Maleku, Er. Subodh Rajbhandari, Naren Maharjan, Aswini Verma and Kshitiz Karmacharya — register Alpas Technology Pvt. Ltd. Maleku and Rajbhandari are King's College alumni. The stated purpose is narrow and specific: build civic technology for the municipalities around Kathmandu. The tagline is set early and never changes: "We help, you grow." Karmacharya leaves in the years that follow; the other four still lead the company.
SourceAlpas Technology · company statement, Sep 2026 alpas.com.np King's College, 4 Mar 2025 NAS-IT · member profile
August 2019Field notes
The first field notes
The blog starts as a working notebook rather than a marketing channel — two long pieces on project-management and communication tools for IT teams, then, that October, essays on leadership and credibility. The habit of writing down what the team learns is set in year one.
Sourcealpas.com.np
March – May 2020Hard stretch
Lockdown — the hard stretch
Nepal's first COVID-19 lockdown begins on 24 March 2020. A civic-tech studio less than two years old, whose clients are city offices, watches those offices close. The team's answer is to keep shipping in public: a COVID awareness post on 19 March, a piece on 1 April about how the pandemic changed the company, the "Lockdown Waste-Down" contest to keep neighbourhoods engaged, a Save-the-Environment event, and in May a smartphone COVID-risk screening built with Virufy. The Android team's build-up is written up the same month.
Sourcealpas.com.np alpas.com.np alpas.com.np
2021Field notes
Rebuilding as a product studio
Through 2021 the writing shifts from tools to craft: what good UX actually is, how Nepali e-commerce businesses should think about their sites, what a mobile app can realistically earn. This is the studio's design-and-build era — commercial work in Nepal and abroad that funds the civic mission.
Sourcealpas.com.np alpas.com.np
26 January 2024Product
LMC Alert ships — commissioned by Lalitpur Metropolitan City
Version 1.0 of LMC Alert reaches the App Store. It is officially commissioned by Lalitpur Metropolitan City: residents report more than 20 kinds of incident — fire, accidents, road digging, blocked drains — straight to the city's Police Office, with live location. It is the product the studio was founded to build, five years and four months after founding.
SourceApp Store · LMC Alert alpas.com.np
21 – 25 August 2024Recognition
NAS-IT Awards 2024 — Winner
At the NAS-IT Awards in Kathmandu, LMC Alert and the Ward App win the Government, Citizen Services & Digital Government category. The jury citation is for "reimagining emergency comms." NAS-IT winners go on to represent Nepal at APICTA.
Sourcealpas.com.np NAS-IT Awards 2024 · event listing
14 – 15 November 2024Recognition
ICT Awards 2024 — Social Innovation finalist
LMC Alert is a Top-13 semi-finalist in the Social Innovation category at the ICT Awards Startup & Idea Fest, where the team demos it to hundreds of visitors and to the Minister for Communication and Information Technology, Prithivi Subba Gurung. It goes on to the Top 5 finalists.
SourceYujesh Maleku, 19 Nov 2024 King's College, 4 Mar 2025
4 – 7 December 2024Recognition
APICTA Awards 2024, Brunei — representing Nepal
Alpas travels to Bandar Seri Begawan as one of the Nepali companies at the Asia Pacific ICT Alliance Awards, showcasing its civic preparedness work. It returns as a regional nominee.
SourceKing's College, 4 Mar 2025 alpas.com.np
Late 2024Product
AI Sherpa — the first civic AI assistant
Lalitpur Metropolitan City asks whether AI can reduce misinformation during health scares. The answer is AI Sherpa, a conversational assistant co-built with the city, and the beginning of the AI classification work that later powers Nagarik Alert.
Sourcealpas.com.np
January 2025Field notes
"From complaint to action"
Two posts open the year: an inside look at the studio's rituals — discovery weeks, prototype sprints, "Decision Fridays" — and the thinking behind LMC Alert and its successor, framed as smart citizenship rather than software.
Sourcealpas.com.np alpas.com.np
2025Recognition
World Summit Awards 2025 — Global nominee
The Ward App is nominated for the World Summit Awards, the UN-backed global competition for digital content with social impact, and APICTA nominates Alpas for a second year running.
Sourcealpas.com.np
5 November 2025Product
Nagarik Alert launches — as "CiviAlert"
Version 1.0 of the nationwide successor to LMC Alert reaches the App Store under its original name, CiviAlert, built with partner Innotrend Solutions. Citizens anywhere in Nepal can report incidents with photos and location, and an AI engine reads each report in Nepali or English, scores its urgency, and routes it to the right desk.
SourceApp Store · Nagarik Alert Google Play · Nagarik Alert nagarikalert.com
24 May 2026Product
CiviAlert becomes Nagarik Alert
Version 1.0.6 renames the app to Nagarik Alert — "citizen alert" — and it keeps shipping: version 1.0.11 lands on 18 August 2026. The official site reports 9,000+ active users, 1,500+ alerts submitted, and 50+ new alerts a day.
SourceApp Store · Nagarik Alert nagarikalert.com
11 September 2026Today
Eight years
Fifteen-plus municipal partners. Forty-seven citizen journeys shipped. Ten thousand-plus automated alerts delivered, seven hundred-plus requests automated every month through the Digital Citizen Charter, and more than a million people reached. Not a straight line — but the line kept going.
Sourcealpas.com.np
End of September 2026ProductComing
LobbyHQ — gaming-zone management
Management software for gaming zones and e-sports cafés — the operations layer for venues that rent time on consoles and PCs — releasing at the end of September 2026.
SourceAlpas Technology · company statement, Sep 2026
October 2026ProductComing
Alcomm — a commerce operating system
A commerce operating system for businesses that sell, releasing in October 2026. A separate platform from MizeOS.
SourceAlpas Technology · company statement, Sep 2026

Along the way

True, but the sources don’t give a date — so these aren’t forced onto the timeline.

The Digital Citizen Charter and the ward apps

An interactive touch terminal for ward and municipal offices that publishes every service with its fees, documents and turnaround — and a family of per-ward mobile apps (LMC Ward 14, LMC Ward 28 and others) that put the charter in a citizen's pocket. Deployed with 15+ municipal partners including Lalitpur Metropolitan City and Kirtipur Municipality; 700+ requests automated every month.

Sourcealpas.com.np Google Play · LMC Ward 28

e-Challan for Nepal Traffic Police

An Android application for on-street enforcement: an officer records a violation and prints the ticket from a Bluetooth printer on the spot, with a digital record behind it. Nepal Traffic Police's own notice on E-Challan (the "digital chit") describes the scheme to drivers.

Sourcealpas.com.np Nepal Traffic Police · notice on E-Challan

MizeOS — a product business of its own

"Run your restaurant, not your software." MizeOS is a restaurant management system that pairs billing, kitchen tickets, inventory and staff roles with AI-driven intelligence — menu profitability by dish, revenue forecasting, peak-hour trends — and VAT/IRD-compliant reporting. Live in Nepal and early in its life — a free tier to start, Pro and Plus above it, and a Play Store app published by Alpas. Its launch date isn't published, so it sits here rather than on the timeline.

Sourcemizeos.com Google Play · Mize

Work beyond the public sector — and beyond Nepal

The civic mission has always been funded by a design-and-build practice. Clients over the years include Nelson Airport, Uniquely Nelson and Morrisons Nelson in New Zealand; Refund My Super in Australia; and in Nepal Aware Nepal, Samjhana Laboratory, Upcycle Nepal, the Nepalgunj Marathon, Astra Digital, Identv, Vibravid, Rotaract 3292 and the bands Cobweb, Zenith and Monkey Temple.

Sourcealpas.com.np alpas.com.np

Aligned with the Digital Nepal Framework

The work is rooted in the Government of Nepal's Digital Nepal Framework — automating public service delivery, strengthening transparency and good governance, and supporting the Digital Nepal movement through cooperation, collaboration and coordination.

Sourcealpas.com.np