One person + AI, rooted in one city — Amoy

Tommy Everything

A podcast, travel experiences, brands, a board game, a civic app, a community — all run by me and my AI team. If you work on Xiamen, content or communities, let’s talk.

8 yrs podcasting since 2018
194 episodes, all transcribed
8 / day clips auto-published
260+ shorts on Channels + YouTube

What I’m building

Live

SmartXiamen

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.

Brand in progress

Rowbuy

A 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.

Trademark filed · recruiting illustrators

New Amoyer

A 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.

In design

Kulangsu Monopoly

An 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.

Live · civic

FairLoo

A 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.

Proposal delivered

xmfish.com Revival

A 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.

Latest episodes

What BlackBear Podcast has been talking about —

The AI workforce

The employees of this company are AI: transcription, editing, publishing and briefings are automated. I do judgment, taste, and showing up.

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Daily content matrix

Clip rendering to fully automated publishing on WeChat Channels + YouTube, ~8 posts a day, with a watchdog patrol.

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Podcast transcription pipeline

All 194 episodes transcribed with word-level timestamps, resumable batching, transcripts auto-published to the site.

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Programmatic video

Remotion-powered clips: karaoke captions, bilingual subtitles, generated covers — one command per clip.

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Automated briefings

Daily briefings, market-close stock reports and weekly civic-app ops reports — all delivered automatically.

About Tommy

Tommy is a podcaster and builder from Xiamen. Host of BlackBear Podcast since 2018, formerly at xmfish.com. As a one-person company powered by AI, he runs the content ecosystem grown from the podcast alongside six independent ventures — from city media, a board game and a civic app to brands and a community revival.

Work with me

Content partnerships, co-created experiences, brand collabs, community revivals — or just talk Xiamen.

Email me →

tommylin07@gmail.com