↑ One color per project: eight colors together spell Everything. The rooms are below.
An audio show first: a Xiamen-rooted podcast since 2018 — 194 episodes, biweekly, on the city, its people, education and culture. It is also the trunk of a content ecosystem; everything below grew out of the show.
An English-language insider site on Xiamen for international travelers: ten local-eye guides plus five signature experiences — Oyster Trail, Tea Master Morning, The XMU Insider Tour and more. Content brings visitors, WhatsApp takes bookings, local guides deliver: a complete small-business loop.
Enter → Independent venture Global brandA reverse cross-border shopping brand helping young shoppers in the West buy from China — collectibles, anime goods, electronics. The brand system is done: palette and type specs, mascot Captain Robi, an original theme song and three promo videos. Next up: the Discord community and a micro-KOL network.
Enter → Independent venture Illustration publishingA Xiamen magazine that exists only in illustration — in the cover-art tradition of The New Yorker, following The Parisianer, The Tokyoiter and The Shanghairen. Illustrators paint the island city and share revenue instead of selling out their rights. Issue one: Kulangsu at dawn.
Enter → Independent venture Physical goodsAn economic strategy board game set in Kulangsu’s International Settlement era (1903–1945): dual currencies, a hex map and real historical event cards. Every tile — Sunlight Rock, the Bagua Mansion, Shuzhuang Garden — carries the true story of a building and its people.
Enter → Independent venture Physical goodsThe physical product line under Xiamen Mujing Culture Media — turning local memory into things you can hold. Three series in development: Meizhang Old Amoy, the animal-protection fridge-magnet series, and the Qixiao goods series. Same shelf as the Kulangsu board game: tangible, local, collectible.
Enter → Independent venture Civic productA civic mini-program where the public rates and ranks toilets — “Every stall deserves fairness.” Find one, review one, report a problem and see it fixed. Starting in Xiamen, pushing public restrooms toward compliance, fairness and inclusion.
Enter → Independent venture Community revivalA three-stage revival proposal for xmfish.com, Xiamen’s 20-year-old community forum: stop the bleeding with static archives, monetize the content trove, then rebuild Reddit-style — each stage gated by validation. A city memory that once held five million members deserves a dignified restart.
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Employee 001 · Human Host · producer · every department
From Xiamen. Host of BlackBear Podcast since 2018, formerly at xmfish.com. Runs the content ecosystem grown from the podcast, alongside seven independent ventures.
Duties: judgment, taste, and showing up.
Clip rendering to fully automated publishing on WeChat Channels + YouTube, ~8 posts a day, with a watchdog patrol.
All 194 episodes transcribed with word-level timestamps, resumable batching, transcripts auto-published to the site.
Remotion-powered clips: karaoke captions, bilingual subtitles, generated covers — one command per clip.
Daily briefings, market-close stock reports and weekly civic-app ops reports — all delivered automatically.
This AI team runs on Claude Code, driven by reusable skills: the clip pipeline is open-sourced as podclip-matrix, and the overseas creator-scouting playbook is being packaged into the next skill.
▲ Biweekly · every episode fully transcribed and searchable
Tommy is a podcaster and builder from Xiamen — host of BlackBear Podcast since 2018, formerly at xmfish.com. He believes the smallest unit of a company in the AI era is one person: transcription, editing, publishing, monitoring and reports go to AI employees, while he does judgment, taste, and showing up. Every project on this site is one more test of how far a solopreneur can go.
Content partnerships, co-created experiences, brand collabs, community revivals — or just talk Xiamen.
Email me → tommylin07@gmail.com