Founder & CEO · Niguro — Biratchowk, Nepal
“If it matters, build it anyway.”
I’m Yukesh 
bio — born in 1995 in Dainiya,
◎Morang. I write code, start companies, and since 2019 I’ve been building
Niguro
— Nepal’s own search engine — from Biratchowk.
aka Yukesh Rajbanshi
Engineering Nepal’s independent digital ecosystem — crawlers, indexing, local relevance — and writing the whole climb in public.
Read the full storyYears building
Ventures launched
Nepal’s search engine
Systems running
Altitude profile · 2016 → now
From a campus in Morang to Nepal’s search engine. Scroll to climb — every camp is a year the work got higher.
Completed a computer programming programme — the base for everything that followed.
A media and advertising initiative. First product, first lesson in building for a local audience.
Launched a digital content platform, and registered what would become Niguro under the name Niriv.
Media and aggregation insights coalesced into sovereign digital infrastructure — crawlers, indexing, local relevance.
January: Niguro launches as Nepal’s independent search engine — web, images, videos, news and products.
Scaling Niguro’s index, writing the journey, and opening the playbook.
The Lab
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Starting today, October 9, 2026, Google is changing who gets access to which Gemini models. If you use Gemini without paying for anything, your access shrinks.…
A year ago, Nepal went through something most founders never expect to experience: the government ordered internet providers to block 26 social media platforms in a…
A few weeks ago I watched an AI tool build a full website in about four minutes. It picked the colors, wrote the copy, arranged the…
People assume founders have a secret formula for choosing what to build. A spreadsheet, a market report, a clever framework with a name. I do not…
Library · free books
Field guides from the work itself. Start with SEO, Simply — turn the pages right here, or take the PDF with you.
Tools · made in Nepal
Moon, planets and ISS passes for 22 Nepali cities — plus your birth-sky poster.
Open 02 ToolTurn your startup milestones into a mountain-profile poster.
Open 03 DataTop searches and fast climbers from Niguro Trends.
OpenVentures
Media taught aggregation. Aggregation taught relevance. Relevance demanded a search engine. Tap a star.
2019 → 2026 · Flagship · search
Nepal’s independent search engine and digital ecosystem — web, images, videos, news and products, plus Niguro Cafe, local commerce, weather and utilities. Registered as Niriv in 2019, launched as Niguro in January 2026.
Open the company pageLook up,build up.— Why I stay curious
