Philippe Khin

Founder of @SewaYou Meet new people in Japan. iOS & Android 👇

[Philippe Khin @philippekhin]

Honored to speak at @AsiaSocietyJP's "Startup Nation Japan: The rise of non-native entrepreneurs". It was a privilege to share the stage with fellow founders Oya Koc and Hao Tran, guided by Jesper Koll whose sharp questions and easy humor kept the conversation lively.

Born in Cambodia, raised in France, and now building @SewaYou in Tokyo, I’ve learned that steady progress and strong local ties open doors for founders far from home. With SewaYou we’re working to help people in Japan meet new friends nearby and to make cross-border connections just as easy. If we can build even a small bridge, that’s success.

Special thanks to the Asia Society Japan team and everyone who joined!

Photos: © 2025 Taishi Yokotsuka for Asia Society Japan

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someone please explain in what world this is useful for my korean learning

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tips to run your agents longer without babysitting:

> create Linear issues via their MCP as ideas come
> if some issues are too small to be their own PR, merge them into one
> point your agent at that bundled issue
> less time spent testing/QA-ing over and over

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the most bizarre thing happening to the internet is the flood of cheap life advice from pseudo gurus making cinematic youtube videos, regurgitating the same recycled advice they heard elsewhere and selling you courses and coaching services

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this is the most disgusting scam in japan 🙄

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choosing to do hard things is a muscle that gets built over time: moving to a foreign country, starting a company solo there, building in a competitive space etc

feels like moving through mud, but once you push through, everything else feels much easier

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iPadOS is so neglected in a world where you can decentralize your work

the most enjoyable device by far that you can use, for both entertainment and work, from creative work to browsing analytics dashboards to coding via ssh

and it seamlessly hands over to iphone on the move

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japan app store “Everyone’s Favorites” from every genre: all 3 are dating apps

keep telling you loneliness is hitting japan harder than other places … 🫠

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cursor is coming to instagram ads

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nothing more annoying than a faceless corporate blasting you newsletter emails greeting with: `Hi {last name}`

at least use my first name -_-

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walking in tokyo is so underrated

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@ClaudeDevs @trq212 bug report: on Claude iPad app, when using the iPad vertically, when switching back from another app to Claude app, the sidebar always opens… and no way to close it with a keyboard shortcut.

please fix! 🙏🏻

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@ClaudeDevs bug report: on Claude iPad app, when using the iPad vertically, when switching back from another app to Claude app, the sidebar always opens… and no way to close it with a keyboard shortcut.

please fix! 🙏🏻

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@JustJake @mikenguyen_me got the issue, many of our users panicked and ended up deleting their accounts and left 1-star reviews… haven’t received a single mail from Railway.
never happens in years running our app, got this issue after migrating from Vercel a few weeks ago, considering changing again…

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@Railway any plan to add Japan region support? 🙏

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every startup founder is talking about speed speed speed

but how the f you go faster than the 24-72h that app store takes to review your app
(don’t mention ota update)

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only found on consumer social apps: people leave quotes from the Bible in the feedback form 🫠

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@_catwu would it be possible to also get the teleport link when working on claude code ios app? 🙏
currently only claude code desktop has the button “Open in CLI”
thank you!

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ios app store connect review time is the only damn bottleneck left in the age of ai

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@bcherny would it be possible to also get the teleport link when working on claude code ios app? 🙏
currently only claude code desktop has the button “Open in CLI”
thank you!

[Philippe Khin @philippekhin]

@bcherny would it be possible to also get the teleport link when working on claude code ios app? 🙏
currently only claude code desktop has the button “Open in CLI”
thank you!