Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-11
KinPath, the Chinese kinship question engine
An upcoming offline iPhone tool that turns a spoken Chinese family relationship into reciprocal kinship terms and a small family tree.
Why it surfacedKinPath handles the parts of Chinese kinship that ordinary family-tree software tends to flatten: ambiguous words such as 姑姑 trigger a clarification, birth order distinguishes 大伯 from 二叔, and the whole family graph stays on the phone without an account or tracking. It is an unusually focused piece of practical software, shaped around how people actually describe relatives.
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Lunch Through the Bee Veil
August 11’s newborn domains include a bee veil with a lockable lunch flap, a book designed to unfold over ten years, a Colombian missing-person and aid board, and a brick studio made by a dad and his 10-year-old co-founder.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-11 Domain Arrivals issue.