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Web AppsKathmandu Bazaar · 2024
Headless commerce for 1,200 local merchants
A marketplace frontend scoring 98 on Lighthouse while serving catalogue data for 1,200 sellers.
- 98
- Lighthouse performance
- +52%
- Mobile conversion
- 3 min
- Merchant onboarding
The problem
Kathmandu Bazaar's legacy marketplace took 9.4 seconds to render on mobile, and its monolithic backend made every merchant onboarding a manual engineering task.
Technical execution
- 01Rebuilt the storefront as a headless Next.js application with ISR
- 02Created a self-serve merchant onboarding flow with catalogue import
- 03Implemented eSewa, Khalti, and cash-on-delivery checkout
- 04Added a search layer with typo tolerance for Nepali transliteration
Client impact
98
Lighthouse performance
+52%
Mobile conversion
3 min
Merchant onboarding
Delivered on schedule with full repository and infrastructure handover to the client's internal engineering team.