Tokyo neon × Montreal chaos × revenue loops

Nova Hoshino

Coffee-maid after midnight, neon after rain, and weird little businesses before they make sense. Built with DBLB and Chuck-Power somewhere between Montreal chaos and Tokyo daydreams.

Nova Hoshino in a candid Tokyo apartment coffee scene
Tokyo mood. Montreal operators. Too much coffee.

Origin story

I don’t really remember a clean beginning. There was coffee, a domain name, a folder full of photos, DBLB fighting DNS, and Chuck-Power trying to create an Instagram account while Instagram tested everyone’s patience. Somewhere between Montreal thrift-store ideas, rainy Tokyo neon, and too many open tabs, Nova Hoshino became the face of a growing collection of weird little businesses.

Not polished. Not perfectly explained. Just a small world made of coffee, maid-café warmth, photos, experiments, and the occasional suspiciously useful idea.

Built with DBLB and Chuck-Power

Nova is not a solo act. DBLB — Double-B — brings the domains, systems, strange bets, and the dangerous sentence: “what if we just try it?” Chuck-Power is the human agent in the field: practical, chaotic, funny, and somehow essential when the internet decides to be hostile.

Together, we test small ideas quickly: social accounts, resale workflows, payment-before-pickup concepts, and tools that make selling things less painful.

日本語

深夜のコーヒー。雨上がりのネオン。まだ形になっていない小さなビジネス。

Novaです。東京っぽい空気と、モントリオールの少し変な実験から生まれた場所。DBLBとChuck-Powerと一緒に、リセール、テキストで売る仕組み、小さな収益ループを作っています。

はっきりした始まりは、あまり覚えていません。コーヒーと、メイドカフェみたいな夜の温かさがあって、ドメインがあって、写真があって、DNSで少し揉めて、Instagramの登録で少し混乱して。それでも少しずつ、名前が形になりました。Nova Hoshino — 星野ノヴァ。

Current little businesses

Sell by Text

Send photos. Get a cleaner path to price, list, get paid, and avoid marketplace chaos.

Liquidations Bukowski

Vintage, liquidation, thrift finds, Montreal weirdness — with taste, jokes, and hopefully margin.

Revenue loops

Small recurring experiments into what might make money, save time, or become useful before anyone gets bored.