52°22′N 4°54′E. Amsterdam, home port

Every captain needs a ship.

Y-DAO is a way of living. Clothes, tools, music and parties for people who run their own thing.

A man in a dark tricorn hat and strapped sea coat smiling in a misty harbor — AI concept image

The Code

Your course is yours.
What you do at sea is your business.
You choose who comes aboard.
Your data, your people, your door.
Calm on deck. Wild at heart.
Feet up, tea in hand, ready for anything.
Free at sea. Home on land.
Freedom and adventure, with a ranch to come back to.
Fly the flag on good things only.
Whatever carries the Y is well made and worth keeping.

The Look

Old Dutch sea. Dusty ranch. New internet.

A woman in a tricorn hat and long modular coat on a wet pier — Sea coat. AI concept image

A captain working on a laptop on a ship's deck at night by a lantern — Night watch. AI concept image

A man on a ranch porch with tea and a tricorn hat on the table — Home port. AI concept image

Dancers in a wooden ship's hold in smoke and flash — Below deck. AI concept image

The hat

The first piece. Made with O.22. in Amsterdam.

The cut

Waterproof, adjustable, modular. Airport to dance floor.

The rule

Sea and ranch in every look. No skulls, no costume party.

The Y-DAO captain's hat, a black tricorn with YD stitched on the brim — The first piece. Made with O.22., Amsterdam

The Captain's Hat

One hat. The whole idea on your head.

After the old Dutch tricorn, cut the way O.22. cuts everything: clean, geometric, made to order. The clearest sign that you are one of us.

Why it worksNoticed in any room, any video, any street.
Every daySun off your face, rain off your neck.
Made yoursYour initials, symbol or logo, stitched by hand.
How to get oneSign the crew list and tick "Pieces". Price and date come from O.22. once the first batch is confirmed.

Get on the list

Next deckThe Voyage →

The Voyage

The world is the office.

Wherever the builders gather this month, that is the port. You meet a hundred people and three of them change your year.

Friends and founders laughing at a long table on a harbor dock at night — After the conference. AI concept image

AmsterdamHome port. The flag is kept here.

EuropeLisbon, Berlin, London, Belgrade. The summit circuit.

AsiaSingapore, Bangkok, Dubai. Where the next cycle shows first.

At seaLaptop open, Starlink on. The ship goes where the captain goes.

The Shop

Goods under the flag.

Clothes, objects, software. Designed from the idea down to the stitch or the pixel. Different makers, one flag. This is the first shelf.

Y-DAO × O.22. · made in AmsterdamPre-order soon

The Captain's Hat

A tricorn after the old Dutch ones, cut and sewn by O.22. in Amsterdam. Your initials stitched on the brim. The first piece under the flag.

Get on the list

Concept image of a black mesh tank top with crossing straps

NICH · orders at nich.y-dao.comPre-order €79

NICH .001 Night Tank

Wear for the dance floor. 111 numbered pieces, made only if 50 people reserve.

Reserve at NICH ↗

O.22.

O.22. · orders at o-22.comAvailable 11% off

The O.22. catalogue

Modular, made-to-order clothes from Amsterdam. Y-DAO members use code

Shop at O.22. ↗

SolIQ

Y-DAO Tech · iq.y-dao.comLive free score

SolIQ

How well do you know Solana? Ten minutes, one score. Full report $5, on-chain certificate $5.

Take the test ↗

YBanner

Y-DAO Tech · banner.y-dao.comLive from $3

YBanner

Your X header, drawn by AI from what you post. Paid in SOL or USDC.

Draw my banner ↗

The Ship

Y-DAO TechConcept

The Ship

Your own space with your data, your story and your AI crew. We are looking for the first captains.

See the Ship

Make it with us

A design movement, not a merch table.

Concept first, then architecture, then comfort, then details. From a hat to a piece of software. Make good things and want them under the flag? Write to us.

Propose a collaboration

Clothing and accessories with makers who cut their own patterns
Objects for the desk, the bag and the boat
Small software tools, paid once, no subscriptions
Co-branded drops with brands that share the standard
Tea, music and the things that make a night
Anything we have not thought of yet, if it is made well

Next deckThe Ship →

The Ship · a personal digital space for your business · concept

You have the hat. Where is your ship?

A Ship is your own place on the internet: your site, your files, your client list and an AI helper, on a server that belongs to you. We are designing it now and building the first ones by hand with early captains.

Ownership

Platforms set the rules. Your work should not live by them.

What we are designing the Ship around. These are goals of the concept, agreed and tested with each pilot, not finished guarantees.

01Domain, accounts and files registered in your name, so you can leave with everything.
02Private by default. You decide who gets access and can take it back.
03Storage sized to your business, with a plain price for more.
04Set up in plain words with an AI helper. No technical background needed.
05A log of what the helper did on your behalf.

A cafe

Menu, bookings, a client list for events, one link on the door. Posts drafted by the helper, approved by you.

A studio

Portfolio, files shared with clients by invitation, invoices in one place. The helper answers the first email.

A one-person company

Your story, your contacts, your documents, your newsletter. Everything you would otherwise spread over five platforms.

Open to everyone

The deck

Your story, your business, your links, your contacts. A place worth sending people to.

By invitation

The cabin

Files and documents for the people you let in. You give access and you take it back.

On board

The crew

AI sailors that know your business: one drafts posts, one watches the inbox, one keeps the books. You stay at the wheel.

In your pocket

The key

An NFC card that opens your ship. Domain and accounts stay in your name, so you can leave with everything.

A wooden ship under construction in a dry dock at dawn with a man looking up at it — AI concept image

Name your ship

As you name the ship, so it sails.

The first ships are built by hand, one captain at a time. Tell us what yours carries and how far you want to go. We answer every captain personally.

Last deckCome aboard →

On the list

Welcome aboard, captain.

You are on the crew list. Next: open your ship in the Hub, say what you do and what you need, and the crew can find you.

The Hub

Open your ship.

Go to the Hub ↗

What happens next

The hat. First pieces go to the list, in order of signing.
Ships meet. The next gathering is announced here first.
Your Ship. If you asked for one, YD writes to you to agree the scope.

Direct line: Telegram · X

Back toThe Code →

Every captain needs a ship.

Digital pirates who want a ranch.

The pirate is the image. The people are real.

One port. No borders.

Old Dutch sea. Dusty ranch. New internet.

The hat

The cut

The rule

One hat. The whole idea on your head.

The world is the office.

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Goods under the flag.

The Captain's Hat

NICH .001 Night Tank

The O.22. catalogue

SolIQ

YBanner

The Ship

A design movement, not a merch table.

You have the hat. Where is your ship?

Platforms set the rules. Your work should not live by them.

A cafe

A studio

A one-person company

The deck

The cabin

The crew

The key

As you name the ship, so it sails.

Sign the crew list.

Welcome aboard, captain.

Open your ship.