A physical hub where Taiwanese and international talent meet, work, build companies and create together. Right by Taipei Main Station, at No. 11, Sec. 1, Chongqing S. Rd, opening November 1, 2026.
This is a membership. Before we open, I want to invite 100 people who trust this hub to become Founding Members: at the same price as a standard annual membership, in exchange for a longer membership and more rest hours, with every benefit laid out in the open.
— Kai Hsu (KK), founder
TTH · 2026FOUNDING TERMS
Founding Member core terms
Membership feeNT$35,000
Membership term18 months
Membership dates2026-11-01 → 2028-04-30
Rest hours200 hours
AvailabilityLimited to 100
On sale until2026-10-31
Founding spots0%
0 joined ／ limited to 100 · no restock once sold out — same price as a standard annual membership, more included at no extra cost
Explore · Overview
What would you like to explore?
Each topic has its own page — click through for the full details.
Why now · 01
Why now?
Taiwan faces a structural window of opportunity — and Taipei still lacks a place to catch the people it draws in.
Digital nomadism is now a structural trend — and a high-spending one at that, which is exactly Taiwan Talent Hub's core audience. More and more international talent, remote workers, founders and freelancers are looking for a long-term base in Asia.
Taiwan is not short of cafés, nor of coworking spaces — but it lacks an integrated venue that combines a curated talent network with rest, food and drink, learning, events, startup matchmaking and international connections, all in one place.
Global digital nomads: scale and spending power
40M+
Global digital nomad population (2024); on track for 60 million by 2030
$235B
Projected digital nomad services market by 2034 (CAGR ~21.3%)
38yrs
Average age; median annual income around US$85,000
11%
of the U.S. workforce self-identify as digital nomads — up over 147% since 2019
Taiwan's visa tailwind (a strong following wind)
Taiwan's digital nomad visa launched in January 2025 (an initial 6-month grant), and was extended in 2026 to a maximum of 2 years, adding spousal work rights and a fast track to permanent residency for those earning over NT$6 million a year. The government's goal is to "draw 100,000 of the world's 35 million digital nomads to Taiwan and have 10,000 stay," with Tainan as the first policy stop.
Officials have openly admitted that early results fell short of expectations (hence the visa extension) — which only underlines one thing: the market still needs a physical base plus a community to catch these people, and Taipei still has no clear digital nomad hub.
Taipei's strengths, and one weakness to shore up
Taipei has been ranked the world's number-one city for U.S. remote workers (July 2025) and is among the safest cities for women digital nomads. Its one clear weakness is a lower-rated internet speed (around 22 Mbps by platform data), which is why this project treats high-speed internet as core infrastructure.
Location: a high-footfall node by Taipei Main Station
Location
No. 11, Sec. 1, Chongqing S. Rd, Zhongzheng District, Taipei (diagonally across from Exit Z10 of the station-front underground mall)
Taipei Main Station
About 286,000 passengers a day — Taiwan's busiest station
Taipei Metro
About 1.99 million average daily rides in 2024
Café density
Taipei cafés account for 48.4% of Taiwan's café revenue
Surroundings
Chongqing South Road's former bookstore district, now transformed into a cluster of business hotels and dining
That is "why now" — the space is under contract and the opening date is set for November 1, 2026. And the Founding Members are the 100 people we want to invite in before the doors open.
Market figures are range estimates from public sources (MBO Partners, market.us, CNA, United Daily News and others); please verify before citing.
About the steward · 02
Why KK?
Because this isn't starting from zero. The credibility behind this project is me.
Kai Hsu (KK)
Digital Nomad & Global Talent Ecosystem Advisor Digital Nomad & Global Talent Ecosystem Strategist
I'm Kai Hsu (KK). An engineer by training and a Computer Science graduate of National Taiwan University, I've worked as a web engineer and systems architect, all the way up to VP of Engineering at a startup; from 2018 I started my own companies as a CTO and co-founder, and that same year I began living as a digital nomad, taking my work through more than 20 countries.
What I do best — and enjoy most — is turning a concept into an event, an event into a community, a community into an international network, and that network into projects governments and companies want to build together.
Over time I turned digital nomadism from a lifestyle into a whole body of work around talent, cities and policy. Taiwan Talent Hub is the next step on that path: bringing together the community, brand, government partnerships and business opportunities I've built up over the years into a physical base that can operate for the long term. And I've always had one habit in how I work — laying everything out in the open — which is exactly the design principle behind this project.
Current roles
Chair
Taiwan Digital Nomad Association (TDNA)
CEO
Nomad Taiwan Office
Co-operator
Kolable (SaaS startup)
Principal
Nomad Explore LLC (Wyoming, USA)
Operations
Hualien Cloud Base (digital nomad coworking space)
Professional background
More than 15 years in technology: from web engineer and systems architect to VP of Engineering at MoBagel (2015–2018), then out on my own from 2018 as a CTO and technical advisor. I hold a degree in Computer Science and Information Engineering from National Taiwan University (2012–2016) and an AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate certification; my core strengths span technical consulting, technical leadership, AI productivity, solution architecture and systems design. Chinese is my native language, I work professionally in English, and I regularly work across Japanese and Korean contexts.
Selected projects and results
Type
Details
Community
Founded and run TDNA, the Taiwan Digital Nomad Association (about 2,500 on Facebook, about 3,900 on Instagram)
Flagship event
Chairperson of Taiwan Digital Fest 2026, moving it to Taitung and Hualien and expanding it into a month-long event
Event curation
Taiwan Digital Night, the Taiwan Digital Nomad Conference, and the Digital Nomad Summit at Expo Osaka
Government partnerships
Digital nomad demonstration sites, international lounges and platform operations in Taitung, Hualien, Tainan and elsewhere
International connections
Digital nomad and startup organizations across Japan (Fukuoka, Kumamoto, Kobe, Osaka, Okinawa), Korea (Jeju, Incheon, Busan), Southeast Asia and Europe
Talks and sharing
In June 2026 I gave a talk, "Building AI Agents in the Real World," proposing a Prompt → Context → Harness (point → line → plane) engineering framework, and developed an AI curriculum for TDNA covering LLMs, prompt engineering, agent architecture and the MCP/A2A protocols. Incidentally, the very website you're looking at is one I built by hand using this agentic development approach.
Lately
These days I'm pretty much wrapped up in all things AI and digital nomad — whatever costs money, energy or connections, I've probably had a round of it. So if I'm slow to reply to a message or email, that's just the natural order of things; I'll do my best, promise XD.
On the association side, this year we passed on the National Development Council work and took on projects in Hualien and Taitung instead; as a kid from the east coast, I head back to Hualien and Taitung almost every two weeks, and I moved Taiwan Digital Fest out of Taipei to Taitung entirely. On the company side, we help enterprises with digital transformation and government tenders, and I unexpectedly picked the editor back up (VS Code → Cursor → Claude Code), solving quite a few problems for companies and the association within half a year — like this travel-expense reporting tool. In Taipei, 言文字 Emoji Cafe & Bar has had my renewed attention this year too, building up the community atmosphere together with our regulars (Threads). For corporate training, consulting, startups or digital transformation, you're always welcome to reach out — I'm rather good at handling complicated things in simple ways.
And if we run into each other one day and I don't recognize you right away, it's most likely my memory and CPU running low — come reintroduce yourself and let me reload :)
Why it's worth trusting
This isn't my first time starting from zero, and every previous time was done somewhere everyone could see — event after event, community after community, government and international partnership after partnership, all on the record.
For this project, I've set transparency as the default: you get your own dashboard showing your membership dates, rest hours and payment status; you'll receive monthly and quarterly operational and financial updates; and once things are settled you'll receive a Founding Member certificate spelling out the terms. Whatever needs to be said plainly, I've written honestly on the Honest notes page — no gloss, no exaggeration.
This is a small circle, limited to 100. I hope what you're handing over isn't just a membership fee but a trust that will be taken seriously — and I'll answer it in ways you can see.
For any questions about the project or joining, feel free to reach me directly.
The project · 03
What is Taiwan Talent Hub?
Not just a café, and not an ordinary coworking space, but a physical platform built around talent density.
Taiwan Talent Hub is a physical hub that brings together food and drink, rest, coworking, community events, talent exchange and international connections. It lets founders, freelancers, digital nomads, international talent, local-revitalization teams and corporate innovation units meet, work, exchange, learn and create together in one place.
This is where the people you'd never usually meet come together.
Core services
01
Coworking & event space
A high-ceilinged, timber-beamed floor on 3F for work, meetings, exchange and events, with high-speed internet as core infrastructure.
02
A membership community
Bringing together founders, freelancers, consultants, digital nomads and international talent.
03
Events & gatherings
Monthly talks, workshops, mixers, Talent Salons and Founder Dinners.
04
Advisory services
Helping companies, governments and local teams bring in talent and innovation strategy.
05
International exchange
Connecting Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia and the global digital nomad network.
06
Project incubation
Backing startups, communities and local-revitalization projects with space, community and hands-on support to get off the ground.
The space: three floors, about 80 ping (≈ 264 m²)
1FCAFÉ / BAR
Japanese set-meal café × late-night shokudō & izakaya bar
By day, Japanese set meals and coffee for working; after dark it switches into a late-night shokudō and Japanese-style bar. It turns passers-by into a doorway to the community, and it's the hub's day-to-day cash flow. Open to the public roughly 11:00–23:00, extended on event days.
2FLOUNGE
Member capsule rest + play room (members only)
Capsule rest pods, a play room (party room) and showers, managed by face-recognition entry. Rest is charged by the hour (list price NT$100 per hour), deductible from members' rest hours.
3FCOMMONS
Community coworking + event space
High ceilings and timber beams, three projector screens plus a 100-inch big screen. Work, courses, community gatherings, office hours, Demo Nights and investor meetups — this is where talent density happens.
The flywheel: one ecosystem, not three businesses
Attract talent→Get to know each other→Spark collaboration→Start companies→Success stories→Brand rises↺
Coffee, rest and shared space are just the infrastructure that makes the flywheel spin faster. Success isn't measured by "how much coffee we sell," but by talent density and the number of meaningful business connections.
Membership · 06
Founding Member benefits
You're not just a member — you're No. 001 to No. 100 of this hub. Every membership benefit applies, plus three that belong to Founding Members alone.
Founding Member
18 months of membership + 200 rest hours, at the price of a standard annual membership
Membership dates: 2026-11-01 → 2028-04-30 (if the opening is delayed, it shifts to the actual opening day, with no reduction in duration)
A standard annual membership of NT$35,000 buys 12 months and 100 hours; a Founding Member gets 18 months and 200 hours for the same NT$35,000 — an effective NT$1,944 a month, the lowest of any plan. This isn't a discount; it's a shared identity in opening this hub together.
用
Access to the members-only spaces on 2F and 3F (face-recognition entry)
用
Free use of the 3F coworking and event space
用
Access to community events and the mutual-aid network
用
Rest in the 2F capsule pods and play room, deducted from your hours (list price NT$100 per hour)
創
Founding-only: your name on the 3F founding wall
創
Founding-only: an invitation to the founders' dinner
創
Founding-only: renewal price lock (future list-price increases won't affect your first renewal price)
用
Priority sign-up for member events · introductions to partners and corporate resources
What does being a Founding Member mean?
Membership isn't about a seat — it's about a network. You'll be placed into a curated talent community where weekly events, office hours, Demo Nights and Founder Dinners raise your odds of meeting the right people: co-founders, clients, investors, partners.
And being a Founding Member carries an extra layer: you're one of the 100 people there on opening day. Your name stays on the 3F founding wall, your renewal price is locked at this one; and to the hub, you are the very talent density that starts the flywheel turning from day one.
Honest notes · 07
Honest notes
Laying out what needs to be said plainly, up front, is the basic good faith of this program.
The Founding Member program is a membership pre-sale: you pay a membership fee, and what you receive is membership and rest hours — those are the benefits, all laid out in the open.
Opening timeline: the target opening date is November 1, 2026. If the opening is delayed, your membership starts from the actual opening day, and the 18 months and 200 hours won't be shortened.
2F rest is a conditional service: the rest service in the 2F capsule pods and play room is conditional until the competent authorities confirm it in writing; until then, your rest hours can be used in the 3F space, or adjusted proportionally, with the details governed by the membership rules.
Non-refundable, transferable only: once you join, a founding membership is non-refundable; if you can no longer use it later, the membership may be transferred to someone else (the organizer must be notified to update the records). Before joining, please make sure you understand what the membership covers, the rules on hours and the points above. Formal rights and obligations are governed by the membership rules as approved by our lawyers.
Membership pre-saleBenefits laid out in the openHonest disclosure of conditional servicesMonthly transparent updates
Possible situations and how we'll handle them
Situation
How we'll handle it
Opening delayed
Membership starts from the actual opening day, with no reduction in duration or hours; the reason and the new timeline are announced in the project updates
2F rest still awaiting written confirmation from the authorities
Until confirmation, rest hours can be used in the 3F space or adjusted proportionally, as governed by the membership rules
Founding spots don't sell out
This affects none of the benefits of those who've already joined; the opening proceeds as planned
Operations fall short of expectations
We disclose the operational and financial situation honestly; memberships are non-refundable but may be transferred to others, with transfer rules set out in the membership rules
Over-reliance on the founder
We build manager SOPs and systems, and the space's own capacity for membership and events, to reduce single-point dependence
Transparency mechanism
Monthly: operational progress, use of pre-collected membership fees, member data, milestones and risk notes. Quarterly: quarterly revenue and spending, cash position, membership growth, event results and partnership progress. Annually: an annual operations report and the strategy for the coming year.
