We are happy that Battigayo shut down
Back then, Nepal had scheduled power cuts every day. By May 2018 load shedding had ended, in large part through the work of Kul Man Ghising, former Managing Director of Nepal Electricity Authority.
We thank him for it.
Mr. Kul Man Ghising
The man who helped Battigayo shut down.
The Battigayo story
We built Battigayo to help people plan their days around the rolling blackouts that defined life in Nepal for more than a decade.
When load shedding ended in May 2018, Battigayo had nothing left to do.
We still remember the moment the team realized our users no longer needed the app. We stopped development and hoped we would never need to revive it.
Thank you to all our 100,000+ users for your feedback and support. Namaste.
Why we built it
Battigayo was not client work and it was never meant to earn. We paid for it ourselves, and we said so at the time. In January 2013 myRepublica quoted Pravash on what the studio was aiming at: “Our main target with apps for Nepal has been to create simple yet useful apps which are mostly problem-solving tools.”
That piece is also the only contemporary count. By January 2013 the app had 16,000 downloads and was adding about 1,000 a week. It ran for another 5 years at that pace or better, which is where the 100,000 figure comes from.
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