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Join Kyle and Martina team as they navigate the exciting journey of building a startup called Stacklist. Dive into the world of entrepreneurship, where maintaining a startup mindset and focusing on user experience are key. Discover insights on building authentic business relationships and learn how these connections can unlock new opportunities. Tune in for engaging discussions on startup life, community building, and innovative product launches.

  1. 3d ago

    Dani Jines - Director of Happiness and Gratitude

    Episode Stack: https://stackl.ist/4bYzGBc Surfbreak has a job title that is quite different than most: Director of Happiness and Gratitude. Dani is that Director of Happiness, and the role is less abstract than it sounds. Her problem was that answering "where should I eat" was eating the hours she needed for the rest of the work. This episode is about what she did with that problem, and what a 608-member community in Hawaii decided its local knowledge was worth organizing. Dani joins Ivanha to talk about Surfbreak, the digital nomad community founded five years ago by RJ Martin, now running in Honolulu and Puerto Escondido. She explains how the community screens for values instead of resumes, what happened when Stacklist co-founders Kyle and Martina stayed at the Hawaii house, and how one hike turned into a hub: restaurants, cinemas, and places worth the drive, built as stacks of cards and handed to every arriving member as a QR code. IN THIS EPISODE Why Surfbreak runs an application and a background check, and what they are actually screening forThe economics of a "Director of Happiness and Gratitude" role, and whySurfbreak funds oneWhat 608 members over five years produced, including three marriagesHow a half-hour hike with a Stacklist co-founder became a company-wide decisionThe pauhana where former members built the first stack ofrecommendations togetherWhy the QR code changed Surfbreak's relationship with local restaurantowners, not just its guests Dani's three-part answer on what makes a community worth joining: gratitude, teamwork, laughter CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome and what a Director of Happiness and Gratitude does 0:26 Surfbreak, RJ Martin, and the ohana principle 1:18 608 members and three marriages 2:46 The job: making success conscious 4:27 How to join: application, background check, two locations 6:41 How Surfbreak uses Stacklist 8:38 Meeting Kyle on a hike 13:14 Keeping the stack alive 15:39 Advice: gratitude, teamwork, laughter 19:23 The Puerto Escondido location 21:15 Aloha ABOUT THE GUEST Dani Jines is Director of Happiness and Gratitude at Surfbreak, a community of digital nomads with locations in Honolulu, Hawaii and Puerto Escondido, Mexico. Surfbreak was founded roughly five years ago by RJ Martin and now counts 608 members. Membership runs through an application and a background check.

    Dani Jines - Director of Happiness and Gratitude
  2. May 11

    Why We Built ACP and Why We're Open Sourcing It

    Episode stack: https://stackl.ist/4thLgx3 The internet was built for humans. But the fastest-growing users of the internet are now AI agents. They read the same pages over and over, burning tokens to figure out what each piece of content is. There's no shared language for any of it. In this episode of Building Stacklist, we explain ACP (Atomic Content Protocol), the open standard we built. ACP is why a Stacklist card is already structured the way agents want to read it. The conversation walks through why a protocol matters more than another app. What 84% token savings looks like in a live benchmark. And why standardization at the content layer is the kind of infrastructure that has to exist before agentic search and discovery can truly work at scale. Topics - Why the internet's current structure breaks down once agents are doing the reading - The SMTP analogy: how a shared protocol turned email from walled gardens into a network - Why ACP is a protocol, not an app - The 84% token savings benchmark, demoed live - JSON-LD is for crawlers; ACP is for agents (and why both layers matter) - Building Stacklist on ACP: cards, stacks, and search - How to start using ACP today Chapters - [00:00] Intro - [01:25] The dumpster fire that is the downloads folder - [07:40] Why a protocol, not an app (SMTP analogy) - [09:19] Internet was built for humans; agents are the new users - [10:51] The 84% token savings benchmark, demoed live - [15:31] What this means for Stacklist users - [19:20] Inside an ACP-enriched card and stack - [23:04] What the world looks like if ACP wins - [24:22] Where to start Links to use ACP - Atomic Content Protocol: https://atomiccontentprotocol.org - NPM package: https://www.npmjs.com/settings/atomic-content-protocol/packages

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Join Kyle and Martina team as they navigate the exciting journey of building a startup called Stacklist. Dive into the world of entrepreneurship, where maintaining a startup mindset and focusing on user experience are key. Discover insights on building authentic business relationships and learn how these connections can unlock new opportunities. Tune in for engaging discussions on startup life, community building, and innovative product launches.