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Every so often I sit down and talk shop — tool reviews, startup failures, expat dev life. Not a strict schedule; it happens when it happens.
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STACKED
IN JAPAN
Founder. Builder. Shipping from Okinawa.
スタートアップ創業者・沖縄でプロダクトを作り続けています
スタートアップ創業者・沖縄でプロダクトを作り続けています
A founder quietly shipping a stack of real products from a small island in Japan.
沖縄の小さな島から、複数のプロダクトを一人で作り、届けています。
Hey, I'm Aaron
Principal Engineer by day, running a stack of startups and products by night — all from Okinawa.
I build in public: what I ship, what breaks, what I learned the expensive way. No marketing fluff — just honest notes from someone actually building.
FounderBuilderPrincipal EngineerExpat in Japan
What I'm Building
A stack of real products — travel, language, games, AI — shipped from Okinawa
AnyTravel
Anystack
An AI trip planner for Okinawa that generates a real itinerary, then lets your whole group edit it together in real time. Built in Okinawa, now used by travelers I've never met.
Enichan (Mojiyomi)
Anystack
A Japanese reading & writing copilot for people living and working in Japan. Understand the message, keep your flow.
Anyfront
Anystack
Website and business management for small business owners. Ask for a change in plain language — "put my prices up 10%" — and it happens. No dashboards, no technical knowledge required.
Anystack
Co-founder
A product studio building and shipping AI tools from Okinawa. The umbrella the rest of these live under.
Bored Dragon Studios
Co-founder
A game studio running multiple experiments across genres — including a visionOS RPG for Apple Vision Pro.
Findadoc
Volunteer CTO
Volunteer CTO at Findadoc, a Toyota Foundation-backed NPO helping residents in Japan find multilingual healthcare providers.
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