adavan.xyz
we are a product studio comprised of scrappy 20-something year old builders, creatives and technologists based in new york city 🗽🐀 but we travel a lot and come from all over the world.we have combined experience from companies like instagram, google, honey (acq. paypal), aws, and qualcomm. we build stuff 💻 that we consider delightful, wielding technology as a tool for human expression and improvement.
if you want to say hello, you can reach out online or get time to chat
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we are in our carmen sandiego era!
here are highlights about the places we've visited!
uae 🇦🇪
is wakanda in a desert, the only place we feel safe walking alone at 3am
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s. korea 🇰🇷
has us never wearing shoes indoors again. and how is the chicken the best we've ever had?
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nigeria 🇳🇬
was a fun throwback to Kourtney's childhood, but why is there still unstable power?
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kenya 🇰🇪
brings us peace. it's what nigeria ought to be ❤️
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mexico 🇲🇽
is home of the happiest and healthiest elders we've ever met. cdmx is unmatched
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ritualswhat: coming soonwhy: coming soonwhite paper
podcashwhat: funding for non-venture scale businesseswhy: a marketplace with fixed term loans with negotiable rates (aka. deals). Small businesses can apply to be approved for a line of revolving deal credit that allows for instant loans as soon as existing deals are repaid.post-mortem: this was a cool idea but probably for someone else to implement. my cofounder and i realized we really weren't passionate enough to actually want to sit through building it. bags is a cool company doing this now.photos
coveowhat: mobile-first video collaborationwhy: video collaboration is a feature we believe should exist in video-based consumer social products. content creation is still largely a one-man operation. videos should be easy to make (not just edit or remix - literally make) just as easily as we can collaborate on a google doc.post-mortem: this idea, though a cool one, is a feature, not a platform. it should ideally come natively in social platforms. there's a lot to still learn and experiment with on the topic of collaborative content creation.... stay tuned!photos
oziwe contributed to descent, an open source protocol used to issue dollar-backed currency notes (DBCN) for frontier markets fiat currencies.what: ozi is a decentralized oracle for descent protocol responsible for feeding fluctuating currently conversion rates from the real world to the blockchain allowing the protocol maintain a 1:1 peg to the value of frontier market fiat currencies.why: we believe that open digital financial services are catalysts for economic independence of individuals from nation states i.e. the freedom of individuals to earn, own and control their money. the adoption of open digital financial services will lead to economic empowerment and sustainable economic development for markets with little to no economic freedom. more in the white paper.
flywheelwhat: simplifying e-commerce logistics by way of aggregating independent last-mile delivery providers in frontier markets.why: logistics is hard.post-mortem: limited understanding of a suitable model to unify independent providers with limited liability and cost.photos