NepTrack - Smart Mobility and GPS Tracking in Nepal

Hey Product Hunt 👋 Thanks for checking out NepTrack. A bit of context on why we built this: In Nepal, GPS vehicle tracking has been around for years, but the entire industry is built on rebadged foreign software. Local "providers" import GPS devices from China, plug into someone else's tracking platform (usually a generic one from Eastern Europe or India), slap a Nepali brand on it, and resell. When something breaks or a customer needs a custom feature, the answer is always "let me check with the vendor abroad." That answer never came back fast enough. We saw three problems repeatedly: Operators couldn't get data they needed. Insurance disputes, theft cases, government audits. Most platforms only kept 30 to 90 days of history. A truck owner trying to prove a 2-year-old route had nothing. Nothing supported Bikram Sambat dates. Every government office, school, and traditional business in Nepal runs on the BS calendar. Fleet operators were mentally translating dates constantly. Developers had nothing to integrate with. No SDKs, no public APIs, no documentation. Building anything custom meant hiring a vendor abroad. So we decided to build the GPS platform Nepal would have built for itself, if anyone had taken the time. The hardest part was the TCP receiver. Most GPS platforms outside Nepal use it as a black box you cannot touch. We wrote ours from scratch in Node.js, which gave us protocol-level control over GT06, iStartek, Teltonika, Concox, and 6+ other device protocols. Today that single piece of infrastructure is what lets us add new hardware support in days instead of months. A few things we did differently than expected once we got going: Open-sourced the SDKs (Flutter and Node.js, Apache 2.0). Originally we planned to keep them proprietary. The deeper we went, the more we realised vendor lock-in was the actual enemy. So we put them on pub.dev and npm as a guarantee to customers: even if NepTrack disappears, your investment is safe. Bundled the first year of service into the device price. Other platforms charge monthly. We hated the surprise-billing experience, so we made the price one transparent number. Free installation, anywhere in Nepal. Including Karnali, Mustang, Humla. No remote-area fees. This breaks the unit economics of most providers but works for us because we own the stack. We are now serving private vehicles, public transport, school buses, municipal waste fleets, EV charging stations, and government departments across Nepal. Next on our roadmap: deeper integrations with insurance partners, a Nepali-first driver behaviour scoring API, and a partnership with the Department of Transport Management on a national road incident notification system we are calling Sadak Saathi. Happy to answer anything: the tech stack, the journey, the GPS market in Nepal, why we open-sourced the SDKs, or how we keep latency low on a 5-year retention window. AMA 🙏 Hari & Kaushal Co-founders, NepTrack