Sushi Kitchen
Showcase · Teia.cafe

Ryan Tanaka

Founder of Teia.cafe, a digital art marketplace on Tezos, and a long-standing advocate for the creators who sell through it. What follows is the infrastructure he assembled for that work.

Read this first

This is a case study, not a product. The collection below is what one person built and runs — it is not a tier, it is not for sale as a unit, and nothing here is bundled behind a plan. Every roll in it is on the menu and can be assembled by anyone.

The collection

Built to stack.

Each of these is a bento box — a set of rolls sealed for delivery. They are meant to be stacked rather than chosen between: the data layer stands up first, and the studio and coaching boxes sit on top of it. A stack of bento boxes is a jubako, and its roll count is the union rather than the sum, because the boxes share their foundation.

Combo · 2–4 rolls

Creator Onboarding Essentials

Essential tools for onboarding artwork to Teia and Objkt marketplaces. This combo provides the foundational data layer with Supabase and pgvector for storing artwork metadata, creator profiles, and enabling semantic search across collections.

Setup
15 min
Floor
2 cores · 4 GB RAM · 20 GB storage
Status
stable
Bento box

Creator Tools for Digital Art Marketplaces

Advanced creator tools for digital artists preparing artwork for Teia and Objkt marketplaces. This bento box provides comprehensive content management, metadata preparation, and marketplace integration tools for digital art creators.

Setup
30 min
Floor
4 cores · 8 GB RAM · 100 GB storage
Status
stable
Bento box

Reaper Game Coaching

Complete gaming coaching platform optimized for Reaper players who want to level up their skills through AI-powered analysis, performance tracking, and community features. This bento box combines gaming tools, AI coaching assistants, and analytics to create a comprehensive coaching environment.

Setup
45 min
Floor
8 cores · 16 GB RAM · 8 GB VRAM · 200 GB storage
Status
stable
Bento box

Strategy MMO Gaming Bundle

Comprehensive gaming coaching platform optimized for strategy MMOs including The Elder Scrolls Online (ESO), Final Fantasy XIV, Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen, and Guild Wars 2. This bento box provides AI-powered analysis, performance tracking, and community features specifically designed for strategic gameplay and group coordination.

Setup
50 min
Floor
8 cores · 16 GB RAM · 8 GB VRAM · 250 GB storage
Status
stable
Platter · 5+ rolls

Creator Studio Monitoring & Analytics

Complete monitoring and analytics platform for digital art creators and marketplace operators. This platter provides comprehensive observability, performance tracking, and business intelligence for creator studios and digital art marketplaces.

Setup
60 min
Floor
12 cores · 24 GB RAM · 500 GB storage
Status
stable
How it stacks

Four layers, bottom up.

Monitoring
Grafana · Prometheus · Loki · OpenTelemetry
Interface
AnythingLLM · OBS Studio · Metabase
Inference
Ollama · Whisper · Piper
Data
Supabase · pgvector · Redis · MinIO
Elsewhere

Off-site, and worth reading.

Why this shape.

Creator-first
Assembled by someone who sells through the marketplace it serves, rather than around it.
Stacked, not bundled
The data layer stands up once. Everything above it is added when it is needed and removed when it is not.
Tezos-native
Built against the chain the marketplace settles on, not adapted to it afterwards.

Starting from scratch? The data layer is the first thing to stand up. Everything on this page is assembled from the menu.