Younode was featured by Selwork IT Freelance as one of its recommended development companies.

Younode Featured on Selwork IT Freelance

Here's a look at what's been happening at Younode lately, from a new weekly tradition of sharing weekend stories to updates on some of our projects.

What's New at Younode

For our May topic, we introduce Ozu, a new local Markdown sharing tool planned and developed by Younode.

May at Younode

We launched Ozu, a tool that lets you share local Markdown directly from your code editor and keep updating it at the same URL.

Introducing Ozu: Building What Comes After Markdown Sharing

A closer look at Younode's global team structure, where Japanese and Bangladeshi members work together across borders and languages.

April at Younode: Meet Our Global Team!

For engineers who spend every day under pressure from logical thinking and information processing, how to reset the brain over the weekend is a very real challenge.

How Far Can AI Produce Our Days Off?

Our entire Sapporo team attended SHAKE H and experienced the energy of the venue and sessions on product development in the generative AI era.

We Attended SHAKE H, a Startup Conference Held in Hokkaido!

A look inside Younode's office in the 1950-built Iwasa Building, and the details that shape how we work.

Our Office in Historic Iwasa Building

Focusing more on the essence, and placing greater importance on our team’s values and shared principles.

At the Beginning of 2026

Throughout 2025, supported by many people involved with our work, it became a year filled with challenges and learning. In this article, we briefly look back on what we worked on over the year and the insights we gained along the way.

What to make, and how to make it

By combining our in-house CMS with AI, we provide a web development approach that enables the shortest path from design to launch and ongoing operation.

Web Development Built with Our In-House CMS and AI

Today, PULP launched its new web media platform.

PULP Web Media Launch

At the start of 2025, we would like to share our fundamental vision for the future that lies ahead.

Hello 2025!

We have released our case studies for Digital Lab (our contracted development).

Released our case studies

Our company has been featured as a development partner for Creative Tokyo.

Creative Tokyo

The new post feature has been improved for a more user-friendly flow.

PULP - Improvement to New Post Feature

We participated in TechBBQ, the largest technology conference in the Nordic region.

TechBBQ 2023

Lets get to know one of the state-management libraries for React, which is known for its lightweight and easy to use feature to solve global state management.

Zustand - A lightweight state-management solution for React applications

Explore how Million.js can revolutionize your React apps, making them faster and more efficient. Learn about its lightweight architecture, virtual DOM, and reactive state management.

Turbocharge Your React Apps with Million.js

We conducted a workshop for the development team titled "Best Practice of Dev Workstyle" along with lightning talks.

We held our first company-wide meetup in Dhaka

We have launched "The Retro Tracks", a music recommendation service using ChatGPT.

Launched the music recommendation service "The Retro Tracks"

We have improved the logic for recommended users, making it easier to find people with similar music tastes.

PULP - Improved user recommendations

You can now play sample audio tracks on PULP's timeline.

PULP - Added sample audio playback feature

We have listed our official NFT collection "Crypto Wombat"

Listing NFT collection on marketplace

Head office relocation

We have released "Crypto Wombat," a Solana on-chain NFT collection featuring 6,869 pieces of generative art.

Released NFT collection "Crypto Wombat"

TechStars Startup City Acceleration Program's Pitch Day video is now available.

Pitch Day video released

We have been selected for the Global Scale Acceleration Program, organized by JETRO and Techstars.

JETRO x Techstars Startup City

We have launched "PULP", a music social media that connects users by sharing the songs they are listening to.

Launched music social media "PULP"

We have been certified by J-Startup HOKKAIDO.

J-Startup HOKKAIDO

We have successfully raised a total of 24 million yen from multiple investors.

Secured funding from the Hokuyo SDGs Fund

Won the grand prize at a startup pitch contest during Direct Agenda 2020