Cities don't belong to corporations.They belong to the people in them.
For too long, the digital infrastructure of our cities has been owned by distant platforms extracting value. MyCity is a decentralized protocol built to return ownership, governance and economic power to local communities: an operating system for the physical world, built by the people who live in it.
We are not disrupting cities. We are giving them back to the people who actually build them.// The MyCity Manifesto
The world's biggest companies built cities for their people.
Apple, Google and Facebook didn't just hire people. They built an entire infrastructure layer around them: housing, transport, food, finance, community. Everything an employee needs to live and work, in one place.
Digital nomads have none of that. Remote workers, online founders and Web3 builders are scattered across centralized economies that were never designed for them, stitching together a dozen platforms that each take a cut.
MyCity is the missing layer. Not a travel directory, but city infrastructure for people who can live anywhere, starting in Sri Lanka and designed to work in any city, in any country.
Four ideas that make a city community-owned
MyCity borrows from Sri Lanka's oldest systems of shared ownership and rebuilds them on open, modern rails.
Decentralized ownership
A 51/49 ownership model, so the people who build and use each part of MyCity share in what it becomes.
The Seetu Mechanism
Sri Lanka's traditional rotating savings circle, rebuilt as peer-to-peer savings that can grow into an incorporated LLC.
Purana Gama Protocol
Inspired by the ancient wewa tank cascade, where every village shared water downstream. Paired with Bitcoin mining for shared energy and value.
Bitcoin City Builder
A framework for cities whose economic layer runs on open, community-owned infrastructure instead of closed platforms.
From one island to any city
Phase one is Sri Lanka. Every layer is being built so it can be copied to the next city, and the one after that.
The website
City guides, a curated directory and the knowledge base for living and working across Sri Lanka, here on mycity.lk.
The app
A booking platform for nomads: verified stays, host tools and coordinated group travel.
The AI layer
AI-assisted search and discovery that pulls everything a nomad needs into one answer, in any city.
// Phase 1: Sri Lanka · Long term: any city, any country
Built by a nomad, for nomads.
I'm Chamara. I'm a digital nomad based in Sri Lanka, and I started MyCity because the infrastructure my own community needed didn't exist, and I got tired of waiting for someone else to build it.
Before MyCity, I spent years as an independent web developer and SEO specialist, and made viral videos for clients around the world, most of them through Fiverr. That work taught me how online businesses actually get found, and how much of their value gets taken by the platforms in between.
Today I design, build and run MyCity myself: this website, its city guides, and the nomad booking platform now in development. I also work directly with Sri Lankan businesses on their websites and search visibility, so the places nomads love can be found without anyone handing over a commission.
- Tourism Web DesignDone-for-you websites and SEO for Sri Lankan tourism businesses.Explore →
- Web & App StudioWeb design, app development and SEO for local businesses.Explore →
I'm building the city I want to live in, and handing the keys to the people who live there.
— Chamara a.k.a SkylordZxThe idea came long before the words for it.
MyCity didn't start in Sri Lanka. It started in Dubai in 2007, as a picture in my head that I couldn't yet explain to anyone.
- 2007
Dubai Internet City
I was in my early twenties, working IT support for one.com in Dubai Internet City, and working around a forex trading floor. For the first time I saw what a purpose-built district looks like: a whole neighborhood designed so people and companies could plug in and get to work. I wanted to build something like it, but owned by the people who use it.
- 2008
Claiming the name
I registered @skylord in March 2008 and @MyCity that December. I could already see a decentralized city infrastructure. I just couldn't describe it yet.
- 2009
Big ideas, no tools
By mid-2009 I was posting from @EMCBusiness. I had ambition and nothing else: no capital, no vocabulary for what I was imagining, no financial literacy, and none of the skills I have today.
- Dec 14
2010The day the trail broke
My story with technology started the first time I used a PC. Through the early 2000s I built a digital identity across AOL, Hotmail, Yahoo, MySpace, Hi5 and Yahoo Messenger, and explored the early web through LimeWire and peer-to-peer file sharing.
I should be honest about how we got there. Growing up in a developing country in the early 2000s, we had no money for software, no idea how to earn online, and none of the infrastructure people elsewhere took for granted. The only software within reach came through P2P networks and warez sites, and between the language barrier and how new it all was, we didn't even know whether that was legal. Nobody set out to break rules. It was the only door open to us. We understand it differently now, but that imperfect access is how a whole generation of us learned technology at all.
Then came December 14, 2010. An iPhone crash corrupted my backup, and with it I lost access to most of the email accounts I'd built since the early 2000s. It looks trivial from the outside, but it cut me off from my own early history. It's why the receipts on this page are fragments, traced back years later one account at a time.
// My own post, looking back at December 14, 2010 - 2007 – 2026
Collecting the pieces
So I spent almost two decades learning everything the city would need. I worked in IT and in finance, learned to trade, taught myself design and development, and made viral videos for clients around the world, most of them through Fiverr. Every skill was a part I knew I'd need one day.
- Today
Building MyCity
Now I finally have the skills, and the words. MyCity is the picture I've carried since Dubai, being built one layer at a time from Sri Lanka.
Content creatorWeb developerDigital nomadCrypto traderVisionary
When I came back from the UAE to Sri Lanka, I started introducing the people around me to trading. Even now, in 2026, people are skeptical of it. Back then, explaining it to people with no frame of reference was almost impossible, and most of what I said fell on deaf ears.
So in July 2009 I left a short post on @EMCBusiness: “im in eikon service.” It was a marker for later. When the time was right and people were ready to understand, they could look back and see that all of this started with the logic of a trader.
When you have big ideas and come from a developing country, it's hard to express them and even harder to find support. So I stopped trying to convince everyone and kept building.
Looking back now, I have absolute clarity on who I am and where I'm headed. I no longer need validation, understanding or belief from anyone else.
“If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry.”— Satoshi Nakamoto
The city is being built. Take your place in it.
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