A most prosperous settlement
for merchants of software.
Where bold ideas set sail, curious minds gather,
and useful contraptions find their people.
EXPLORE · DISCOVER · BUILD · BELONG
A town built for those who build. For the restless inventors,
the independent merchants, and the quietly useful contraptions
that deserve to find their people.
Every venture begins somewhere. New makers arrive daily with curious machines, unfinished schemes, and unreasonable confidence that somebody, somewhere, requires precisely what they have built.
Walk the Quayside →Here makers display their wares, exchange rumours, seek collaborators, find customers, and loudly insist their newest contraption shall transform commerce forever.
Some seek customers. Some seek counsel.
Some appear chiefly to discuss distribution.
Every respectable trade requires a guild.
Software, regrettably, appears to require
several dozen.
Keep careful record of every merchant, prospect, conversation and unanswered letter, that no prospective customer may ever escape being followed up.
Tireless clerks who neither eat nor sleep, capable of writing, drawing and calculating — yet seldom admitting when they know not the answer.
Dispatch newsletters, announcements and commercial persuasion throughout the known world, whether requested or otherwise.
Collect coin, issue invoices, reckon subscriptions and determine precisely who has neglected payment.
Ensure travellers searching the great indexes may eventually stumble upon your establishment.
Watch machines throughout day and night and ring the alarm when one catches fire.
ALL HONEST TRADES WELCOME. EVEN THE ONES WE CANNOT YET EXPLAIN.
From the first light at Founders’ Harbour to the last candle in the Alchemists’ Quarter, there is always something afoot.
Bring forth the address of thy establishment.
Our clerks shall inspect its wares and enter a proper account into the town ledger.
Inspection ordinarily requires but a moment,
assuming the clerks remain sober.
A provisional account, not a charter of endorsement. Visit the establishment ↗
Nieuw SaaSdam is not yet accepting permanent residents.
Leave word with the Town Crier and we shall send for thee when the gates open.
We believe useful things deserve to be discovered.
That small makers may build for a large world.
That good work should travel farther than its maker’s audience.
That curiosity is a respectable commercial strategy.
And that every worthy contraption deserves somewhere to hang its sign.
Here, even the smallest contraption
may find a global voyage.
THE MAYOR OF NIEUW SAASDAM
Nieuw SaaSdam welcomes makers, merchants, alchemists
and other persons of questionable occupation.