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Founder story submission under founder_story/, per the README route (write your story with a title and one-pager, add the file under the founder_story folder, and open a PR).

founder_story/japan-places.md - how a one-person data shop in Japan (RegBase / Japan Places, by Lexus) built a pay-per-call data stack:

• a 2,944,081-POI corpus harvested from OpenPOI and Japanese government open data, with per-record provenance (source, licence, fetch date) and a published data-quality distribution
• a 20-path API sold pay-per-call over x402 (HTTP 402, USDC on Base, 0.02-0.05 USD per call), with two free no-key endpoints
• Ed25519-signed corporate registry records that buyers verify locally
• an MCP server face (npm: mcp-japan-places, 16 tools) generated from the live OpenAPI spec, with a drift check as the single-source-of-truth guard

Happy to adjust length, title, or details to fit the Wednesday founder-story edition.