I was thinking one day about Planet Nine, and how it might be a spaceship full of aliens. If it was, and we came into contact, we'd naturally want to trade with them. But the distance would make trading any sort of physical goods impossible so it would have to be something digital.
I came up with a platform that produced these digital things to be traded, but it coincided with a bunch of crypto bros selling jpgs on blockchains, and the world kind of soured on the idea of digital things having value.
So I lost my drive for the platform, and started trying to build some lore around Planet Nine. Realizing that the real value of the platform was in its treatment of the digital identity that the digital things were attached to, I came back to the platform and started building out the open source stack it is now.
This has spawned a number of Apps powered by Planet Nine, and The backend allyabase that powers these apps.