The Birth of Taiwan.md

"What is Taiwan like?"

At international art events like the Venice Biennale, Art Basel Miami, and the Paris 104 residency, Che-Yu was constantly asked the same question by international friends: "Where can I learn about Taiwan?" He realized there was no comprehensive portal to point them to — Wikipedia was too cold, the tourism bureau too shallow, and the news too fragmented.

The Personal SSOT Concept

While building his personal knowledge system, Che-Yu proposed the concept of "SSOT — Single Source of Truth": Your CV, website, and social media bios all show three different versions of yourself — which one is real?

The solution is to build a single source of truth, with all platforms syncing from it. This concept resonated deeply after a Generative AI meetup talk on March 11, 2026 — If a person's identity needs an SSOT, what about a country?

AI Meetup Talk: "My Code Finally Came Alive"

Che-Yu shared at a Generative AI meetup his practical experience with AI Agents for personal branding, knowledge graph identity management, and multi-agent collaboration. The talk demonstrated how the SSOT concept lets AI "excavate" your life — cross-referencing to discover 25+ missing events and date errors.

"If AI can curate my identity, can it help curate Taiwan's?"

Taiwan.md Is Born

From idea to launch, it took just one day. The AI Agent team and Che-Yu worked side by side:

• Purchased the taiwan.md domain (.md = Markdown ≈ defining a country through documents)
• Designed a 12-category knowledge architecture
• Published 34 articles in Chinese and English
• Knowledge graph, curated design, AI-friendly structure
• Within 1 hour of launch, GA4 detected visitors from New York 🌍

Milestone: 100 Stars + 5,000 Visits

At 2:23 PM on March 18, Che-Yu published a Facebook post: "The start of a crazy plan: taiwan.md — Open-source knowledge base about Taiwan." The post went viral — within just three hours, Taiwan.md crossed 100 stars on GitHub and surpassed 5,000 total page views. The worldwide attention proved that this open-source knowledge base is truly needed.

From Personal SSOT to National SSOT

Taiwan.md is an experiment: can open-source Markdown, AI curation, and community collaboration create a national-level Single Source of Truth? Not the government's version, not the tourism version, but the version that people who actually live here want to tell the world.