Kathmandu · since 2024
A library that exists only becausestudents keep adding to it
WeGrowNepal is a shelf. Someone finishes a course, uploads what they wrote, and their name stays on it — so the next person sitting the same paper does not start from nothing. There is no paywall, no ads, and nothing to sign up for before you can read.
Where the library stands today
Small, and growing every time someone uploads. These are live counts, not projections.
- 82
- Notes shared
- 483
- Subjects
- 47
- Levels
Every one by a student
School through university
Class 5 to postgraduate
How it works
Three things, and none of them cost a rupee.
Step 1 · Find
Find the note you needed
Filter by level and subject until you reach the paper you are actually sitting. Nothing is behind a sign-up, and nothing costs anything.
Step 2 · Keep
Keep it when the data runs out
Download it, or open it in the app and it stays readable offline. Revision does not stop because the month did.
Step 3 · Ask
Ask the people who sat it already
Questions a note cannot answer go to students a year ahead of you, who remember exactly which bit was confusing.
Scope
What it does, and what it does not
The second list is the more useful one. A product that will tell you what it cannot do is the only kind worth believing about what it can.
It does
Notes, free, no account
Read and download anything in the library without signing up. Uploading needs an account so the credit has somewhere to go.
Credit that stays attached
Every note carries the name of the student who shared it, on the note and on their profile.
Questions answered by people who sat it
The community is students a year or two ahead, not tutors selling a course.
A pocket for your own documents
A private space in the app for marksheets and forms, separate from anything you share.
Readable when the data runs out
What you downloaded in the app stays on the phone. Revision does not stop because the month did.
It does not
Career portfolios or job matching
This page used to promise them. They do not exist and are not being built.
Official syllabuses or marking schemes
Everything here is a student’s own work or compilation. Check anything you rely on against your board’s current syllabus.
End-to-end encrypted storage
The pocket is private and access-controlled, but it is hosted storage — we could technically reach the files, and you should know that before putting a citizenship certificate in one.
A guarantee that a note is correct
Notes are written by students. Reporting a wrong one takes a tap, and takedowns are handled by a person.
The full position on storage and access is in the security document.
The money
Nobody is paying with their attention
- No advertising anywhere on the site or in the app, and no plan to add any.
- Nothing about a reader is sold or passed to a data broker.
- No tier, no trial, and no chapter that stops halfway.
- Donations go to hosting and only hosting — the breakdown is published.
What we hold to
Five things, each of them checkable
A principle you cannot be held to is decoration. Each of these is written down somewhere with a version and a date, and the link goes to it.
Free stays free
Every note is readable and downloadable with no account, no trial and no tier. If that ever has to change, it changes in the terms with a date on it — not quietly.
Terms of UseNo ads, nothing sold
No advertising, and nothing about a reader passed to a data broker. The sub-processors that do touch data are listed by name.
Sub-processorsThe name stays on the work
A note carries its author on the note, in the share card and on their profile — and it keeps carrying it if the note gets popular.
Contributor LicencePrivate, and honest about how private
The pocket is access-controlled, encrypted in transit and encrypted at rest in Mumbai. It is not end-to-end encrypted: we hold the files and could technically reach them. For a citizenship certificate, a phone’s own secure storage is a better place.
SecurityA person handles reports
Takedowns, copyright claims and conduct reports are read by someone, with a published route to appeal a decision.
Enforcement & appeals
Built here
The only flag in the world with its shape written into law
- The drawing beside this is built from that construction, not traced from a picture.
- The map on the homepage is projected from real district boundaries, all seventy-seven of them.
- A specification anyone can follow and check is a reasonable way to build something meant to belong to everybody.
The only national flag that is not a rectangleIts exact shape is a compass construction, set out in law
History
What happened, in order
Including the part that was taken out again.
- 2024
The idea
Lacspace starts on a way to close the gap between students who can buy the materials and students who cannot.
- 2024
Building starts
A small team in Kathmandu begins the library, the API and the app.
- 2025
The library opens
WeGrowNepal goes live. Free to read, no account needed, and every note credited to the student who uploaded it.
- 2025
The pocket
A locked space inside the app for your own documents — marksheets, citizenship papers, forms — separate from everything you share.
- 2026
Narrowed on purpose
The exams module was removed rather than kept half-built. What is left — the library, the community and the pocket — is the part students were actually using.
What it runs on
Next.js 15, React Native · Expo, Node · Express, MongoDB Atlas, AWS S3 · Mumbai, EC2 · nginx.
"We didn't just build an app.
We built a Sanctuary."
When we planned in 2024, the goal was simple: Help students pass their exams. But as we grew, we realized the need was much deeper. Students needed a space that was truly theirs. A space safe from prying eyes, yet open to infinite knowledge.
That's why we built the Secret Pocket. That's why we refuse to put paywalls on education. WeGrowNepal is our love letter to the potential of every Nepali youth.
Eallen Karna, founder and CEO of Lacspace, the company that runs WeGrowNepal.
Somebody sits your paper next yearwith none of what you wrote
Uploading takes about a minute, your name stays on it, and it is free for them the way everything here was free for you.
Questions about the project
Who runs WeGrowNepal?
Lacspace Corporation Pvt. Ltd., a Nepali company. The notes themselves come from students, not from us.
How is it funded if everything is free?
By Lacspace, and by donations from people who used the notes. There is no plan to charge students for reading.