{"tags":[["client","Yakihonne","31990:20986fb83e775d96d188ca5c9df10ce6d613e0eb7e5768a0f0b12b37cdac21b3:1700732875747"],["published_at","1728547615"],["d","QeCJeAS7D-TRBfQi_6-bt"],["image","https:\/\/yakihonne.s3.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com\/32dc4f259c3a7ce6ad130ef4771069d70d0ba6a55ce960fac4e439a3f95ddcce\/files\/1728547615595-YAKIHONNES3.JPG"],["title","Written on the Plane: Building Yakihonne and Nostr"],["summary","In the early days of a small team, doing the right things and maintaining funding is crucial. My belief has always been that we are in a positive sum game—building the ecosystem together and creating growth, rather than being competitors."],["zap","32dc4f259c3a7ce6ad130ef4771069d70d0ba6a55ce960fac4e439a3f95ddcce","","100"],["t","Nostr"],["t","YakiHonne"]],"content":"Decentralized social networks were my main focus during my PhD. After I graduated early last year, my classmates Younes , npub147whqsr5vsj86x0ays70r0hgreklre3ey97uvcmxhum65skst56s30selt and I went all in on building Yakihonne. With this, some new members joined the YakiHonne team. This marks our fourth year exploring decentralized social networks.\n\nFor the first three years, we built a well-known decentralized research media platform in Asia. We experimented with decentralized creation, funding, and moderation to make media truly decentralized. From 2020 to early 2023, those were some of our happiest times—joining hackathons, winning grants, and focusing on decentralized media. We managed to achieve decentralized content creation for research communities.\n\nIn February 2023, we built a decentralized media client based on Nostr and secured some funding. In the early days of a small team, doing the right things and maintaining funding is crucial. Nostr's early phase, combined with the challenges many decentralized media projects have faced, made securing funding particularly tough.\n\n\n\nI really believe in the Chinese saying, \"**After endless mountains and rivers that leave doubt whether there is a path out, suddenly one encounters the shade of a willow, bright flowers and a lovely village.**” 山重水复疑无路，柳岸花明又一村。\n\nAt the Bitcoin Global Summit in the US, I met npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z , npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s , npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424 , npub1j8y6tcdfw3q3f3h794s6un0gyc5742s0k5h5s2yqj0r70cpklqeqjavrvg, and others who gave us much encouragement and inspiration. In NV, I was asked if our projects on Nostr were competitors. My belief has always been that we are in a positive sum game—building the ecosystem together and creating growth, rather than being competitors. This is the nature of Nostr and a necessity for the future development of the world. The virtual digital world is vast enough, and we don’t need to cling to zero-sum thinking from the industrial age.\n\n\n\nOn my way back to Singapore from NV, a series of delays turned a 24-hour journey into 40 hours. Luckily, I didn't miss my chance to meet with my PhD supervisor. We had a great conversation about publishing and media through the lens of AI, social computing, advertising, and intelligent philosophy . Over the past 20 years, my supervisor has spent almost half of each year traveling to different countries, promoting the development of AI and complex systems. Now he’s more focused on making sure his students stay healthy.\n\n\n\nOver the past two years, I received a few invitations for journal submissions, but I had to delay them due to my busy schedule. Moving forward, I plan to publish our latest research as papers, introducing Nostr and decentralized social networks to more academics, and inviting more researchers to join the Nostr ecosystem.\n\nRight before boarding, I received support from an international academic organization, which really lifted my travel fatigue. Together, we’ll be planning a series of initiatives to engage the academic community in discussions about Nostr.\n\nA big thanks to my team and npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 ,npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu npub1szpa7cypmyd59083qs3pte9lez22lzfu6pl2guhgqx7q09x68y6qquh3td for supporting Yakihonne and helping us grow.\n\nWendy \nOD311 Flight \n2024-10-09\n\n","sig":"591d2d28997131c2b9481deb7dd9ef692227b7eb2364038b3dd751e4fb047541a4745d3152a86d370081cbbfb50ed92ed31fa72cbe2303558ff99eaf3eb3d1d6","kind":30023,"created_at":1728547836,"id":"7aa37aceec50b62a3e69cda1bd7ba76a76397c4af1b295ad61c7b9e2ae8d76da","pubkey":"32dc4f259c3a7ce6ad130ef4771069d70d0ba6a55ce960fac4e439a3f95ddcce"}