Learn the story behind Relaycorp, the company behind Awala, and how I managed to secure funding to build Awala whilst all I had was a prototype and the documentation for how I'd go about building it. I also share my rationale for creating a for-profit company, as opposed to a charity.

References

1. Relaycorp: https://relaycorp.tech/
2. Open Technology Fund (OTF): https://www.opentech.fund/
3. The project’s website, relaynet.link, as it looked like during the concept note phase: https://web.archive.org/web/20190207150351/https://relaynet.link/
4. Mastodon project on GitHub, "Add Relaynet support so people can use Mastodon when the Internet is down": https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/10267

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