|  Amit
Chaudhary is the face behind
the mYktm.com.
Currently, he is doing my BE (Computer
Science) at MIT, Pune. He first started
using Internet when he was around
8th grades. During his school years
at Galaxy Public School, he designed
his first website for it and for the
school’s computer club.
During last month I
had chance to interview him. In the
interview, he talked about his experience
with mYktm.com. Please email any comments
at info@nepalnet.net
Q. How
did the mYktm.com begin?
Amit Chaudhary:
 My
friend Subrat Basnet, doing Diploma
in Computer Science in Malaysia, had
the myktm.com. So we started of making
a site for that domain after our SLC
exams, because we were free then.
So only both of us decided to make
a site so that people could chat.
So basically mYktm was a site only
with chat.
Then slowly both of
us started increasing the features
in it. Mainly
adding NEPAL MESSENGER which is the
main feature of mYktm.com .
First mYktm.com was
hosted on a free server, but then
nepalexpo.com /
ithosts.com sponsored our hosting.
Starting from hits of
100 and page views of 1000 now we
get hits over 2000
and more than 10000 page views per
day. Also Nepal Messenger getting
more
than 13000 downloads just in a year.
We also have more than
1000 users both at the forums and
the mYktm Pals section. People have
really liked the message board section.
Q. Would you
like to share any memorable event
that happened during your
work with mYktm.com?
Amit:
 Yes.
There is one memorable event I would
like to share. That is when our site
won the best site for User Friendliness
at the WWW 2003. Another day which
I cannot forget is when there were
100 chatters in our room for the first
time.
Q. Are you planning
on adding new features or making any
major changes
to the mYktm.com in near future?
Amit:
 Yes,
we are working on new features for
the site. First of all we would
like to bring out a new version of
Nepal Messenger with more features
(first time in Nepal) and also with
much more stability than the previous
two versions.
Also, we are working
on a new online radio for the site,
which is still in
testing state right now. But, will
be out soon.
And yes we are also
working on a new layout for the site.
Q. Any last
words to our readers?
Amit:
Always have belief in
yourself, thing of new ideas and success
will be all
yours!!!
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