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Notes from building Laayo, Qora and Laayo Biz in Nepal: what worked, what broke and what I would do again. For Laayo's product news, see the company blog.
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- From 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.4 min read · laayo, product
- Staging 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.5 min read · infra, security, laayo
- Gateway 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.2 min read · incident, php-fpm, nginx, apache, performance
- Hey Laayo: voice ordering over WebRTCA voice assistant that searches menus and fills a cart: realtime audio over WebRTC, tools that run in the app, and prompts that hold a language.5 min read · ai, realtime, ios, android
- An AI agent that watches live ordersLaayendra is a Go service that watches every live order, nudges riders hands-free and escalates step by step. Rules act; the model talks.5 min read · ai, go, realtime, laayo
- Retrying QR payments without double chargingMaking QR payment retries safe: one pending order per cart, no silent switch to cash, keyed settlement and a careful cleanup job.5 min read · payments, go, laayo
- One database per restaurantTurning a single-restaurant POS into multi-tenant SaaS with a database per tenant: routing, provisioning, migrations, and what isolation doesn't cover.5 min read · biz, infra, security
- Search that understands momo, mo:mo and momosAdding typo-tolerant search with Meilisearch beside the existing SQL search, synced by a small Go job, without letting it take anything away.4 min read · search, go, infra
- From a menu photo to a real menuHow the AI menu importer turns a photo or PDF into dishes with sizes, prices and categories, and the parts that needed rules instead of prompts.5 min read · ai, product, laayo
Laayo's company blog
Product news and stories from the team behind Laayo, written for customers, riders and restaurant partners.
- 29 Oct 2026 · ProductThe new laayo.com.np: order food on the web as easily as in the appA rebuilt website that is fast on every phone, with app-style search, new Birtamod and Damak pages, a clear bill and order tracking.
- 29 Oct 2026 · ProductWhat's new at Laayo: a faster Android app, full menus and one login for every outletEverything new from the last couple of weeks for customers and restaurant partners, and what is coming next.
- 27 Oct 2026 · ProductWhen it rains, the app tells youMonsoon evenings slow everyone down. Now the Laayo app shows rain right where you live and on your order, so a few extra minutes never come as a surprise.
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