← all posts

I added a fake Japanese city called Dorobō to Nomad List to catch data thieves

2 May, 2020 · 4,971 likes · 787 retweets

Years ago, I added a 🇯🇵 Japanese city called Dorobō to Nomad List

Dorobō never existed in real life, but I used it as a bait to see who would copy my data

Now slowly Dorobō is showing up on sites all around the web

Dorobō means "thief" in Japanese 😄

Originally posted on X

P.S. I'm on Twitter too if you'd like to follow more of my stories. And I wrote a book called MAKE about building startups without funding. See a list of my stories or contact me. To get an alert when I write a new blog post, you can subscribe below:

Subscribing you...
Subscribed! Check your inbox to confirm your email.