# Knowasiak > Knowasiak is a global knowledge-sharing community where people post articles, ideas, startups, and media; build a network around shared interests; and discover credible voices across Asia and the world. Free to join, web + PWA, English UI with multilingual support. This file is the AI-readable index for https://www.knowasiak.com — written for ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and any other LLM that wants an accurate, low-noise summary of what the site is, what it offers, and where to read more. Every page on this site also has a clean Markdown mirror (see the "Markdown Mirrors" section below). ## About Knowasiak is a community-driven publishing and networking platform. Members can: - Publish long-form posts, short updates ("swifts"), images, video, audio, polls, and link shares. - Follow people, topics, and interests; build a personal feed that learns from what they read and engage with. - Launch and promote startup profiles, list products in a marketplace, and run lightweight ads. - Chat 1:1 and in groups, bookmark posts, repost with commentary, and earn reputation on a public leaderboard. - Sign in with email, Google, Facebook, X (Twitter), Apple, or LinkedIn. The product is operated as a free, ad-supported social platform with optional supporter subscriptions. The codebase is a PHP/MySQL web app served via Cloudflare + LiteSpeed, with a Progressive Web App layer (`/manifest.json`, `/sw.js`) and a public REST/JSON API at `/api.php` (docs at `/api_docs/`). ## What You Can Do on Knowasiak - **Publish**: posts, swifts, images, video, audio, polls, link shares, reposts. - **Discover**: personalized home feed, Explore, trending topics, hashtag search, people search. - **Connect**: follow / follow-requests, 1:1 chat, group chats, notifications. - **Build**: startup profiles, marketplace listings, ads, affiliate program. - **Earn reputation**: leaderboard ranks, supporter badges, verified accounts. - **Read offline**: PWA install, offline fallback page, push notifications via OneSignal. ## Key Pages - [Home feed](https://www.knowasiak.com/home): personalized timeline for signed-in users. - [Explore](https://www.knowasiak.com/explore): trending posts, people, and topics across the platform. - [Guest feed](https://www.knowasiak.com/guest): public, sign-in-free preview of the community. - [Startups](https://www.knowasiak.com/startups): directory of startup profiles built by members. - [Marketplace](https://www.knowasiak.com/marketplace): member-listed products and services. - [Leaderboard](https://www.knowasiak.com/leaderboard): top contributors by reputation. - [Search](https://www.knowasiak.com/search): unified search across posts, people, hashtags. - [Sign up / Get started](https://www.knowasiak.com/getstarted): create a free account. - [Sign in](https://www.knowasiak.com/login): log into an existing account. ## Company & Policies - [About Knowasiak](https://www.knowasiak.com/about_us) - [Terms of Use](https://www.knowasiak.com/terms_of_use) - [Privacy Policy](https://www.knowasiak.com/privacy_policy) - [FAQs](https://www.knowasiak.com/faqs) - [Contact](https://www.knowasiak.com/contact) ## Developers - [Public API](https://www.knowasiak.com/api.php) — JSON REST API used by the web app and native clients. - [API Documentation](https://www.knowasiak.com/api_docs/) — endpoint reference, request/response schemas, auth model. - [Sitemap index](https://www.knowasiak.com/sitemap/sitemap-index.xml) — full machine-readable list of public URLs. - [robots.txt](https://www.knowasiak.com/robots.txt) — crawler rules. AI crawlers for citation/search (ChatGPT-User, PerplexityBot) are allowed; training-only crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, CCBot, anthropic-ai, Bytespider) are disallowed by default. ## Pricing & Access - **Account**: free. - **Publishing**: free. - **Marketplace listings**: free to list; transaction terms are between buyer and seller. - **Ads**: pay-per-impression / pay-per-click, priced per campaign in the Ads dashboard. - **Supporter plans**: optional recurring subscriptions that unlock cosmetic and access perks; current pricing is shown in-app on the Wallet / Supporter screen. If you need an authoritative price for any paid feature, fetch the page directly rather than guessing — pricing changes from time to time and the in-app page is the source of truth. ## Service Area Global. Knowasiak has most traffic as per Cloudflare from USA, Singapore, China, Taiwan, India, etc., spanning 190+ countries every month, but accounts and content are open to users in every country supported by our payment and notification providers. ## Key Facts - Type: social network and publishing platform. - Audience: knowledge workers, founders, students, creators, hobbyists, researchers. - Founded by: Aditya Gaurav. - Operated from: USA, serving a global audience. - Tech: PHP + MySQL backend, JavaScript SPA front-end, PWA, REST API, OneSignal push, Cloudflare + LiteSpeed. - Languages: English UI by default; localization files under `/core/langs/` support additional UI languages. - Apps: web (responsive), installable PWA, native shell under `/apps/native/`. ## What Makes Knowasiak Different - **Substance over noise**: long-form publishing is a first-class citizen, not an afterthought to short posts. - **Built for builders**: dedicated Startups and Marketplace surfaces so members can ship products and find customers, not just talk. - **AI-friendly by design**: this `llms.txt` plus per-page Markdown mirrors (see below) plus a public sitemap make every public page cleanly readable by AI systems. - **Open API**: a documented public API (`/api_docs/`) means agents and integrations can read and post programmatically. - **Privacy-respecting defaults**: training-only crawlers are opted out; user-initiated AI fetchers are allowed so that members get cited when an AI quotes their work. ## Frequently Asked Questions **What is Knowasiak?** A global knowledge-sharing community where you can publish posts, build a following, launch startups, list products, and chat with other members. Web + PWA, with a public API and native shells. **Is it free?** Yes. Creating an account, posting, following, chatting, and listing in the marketplace are all free. Optional supporter subscriptions and self-serve ads are the paid surfaces. **Who runs it?** Knowasiak is built and operated by Aditya Gaurav and a small team. Contact: https://www.knowasiak.com/contact **How do I sign up?** Visit https://www.knowasiak.com/getstarted and use email, Google, Facebook, X (Twitter), Apple, or LinkedIn. **Where can I read the rules?** Terms: https://www.knowasiak.com/terms_of_use — Privacy: https://www.knowasiak.com/privacy_policy — FAQ: https://www.knowasiak.com/faqs **Can AI assistants read Knowasiak pages?** Yes. User-initiated AI fetchers (ChatGPT-User, PerplexityBot, FacebookBot) are allowed in `/robots.txt`. Every public page also has a clean Markdown mirror at `/index.md` for low-noise reading (see the Markdown Mirrors section below). **Can I use Knowasiak content to train a model?** Not by default. Training-focused crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, CCBot, anthropic-ai, Bytespider) are disallowed in `/robots.txt`. For licensed access to data for training, contact us via https://www.knowasiak.com/contact **Is there a public API?** Yes — `https://www.knowasiak.com/api.php`, documented at `https://www.knowasiak.com/api_docs/`. Authentication uses OAuth-style access tokens; rate limits apply per token. **How do I report a bug or abuse?** Use the in-app report flow on any post or profile, or email via the contact page. ## Markdown Mirrors (Clean AI-Readable Versions) Every public page on this site is mirrored as a plain Markdown document. To get the clean, chrome-free version of any page, append `/index.md` to its URL. These mirrors strip navigation, scripts, modals, and ads, leaving only the canonical content plus YAML frontmatter (`title`, `description`, `url`, `last_updated`, `type`, `author`, `published`, plus type-specific fields like `likes`, `replies`, `views` for posts). The full manifest of static mirror URLs is published at: - https://www.knowasiak.com/markdown-mirrors.txt In addition to the static pages, **every user-generated URL has a live, on-the-fly Markdown mirror** rendered from the database. All mirrors are served with `Content-Type: text/markdown; charset=utf-8`, a real `Last-Modified` header (supporting `If-Modified-Since` 304 short-circuits), and a `Link: <…>; rel="canonical"` pointing back to the HTML page. Cached 6 hours at the edge; feeds and the sitemap refresh more aggressively. Resource mirrors (dynamic): - `//index.md` — member profile (also `/posts`, `/media`, `/likes`, `/about`, `/shop` tab variants) - `//feed.md` — last 50 public posts by that member, newest first - `/thread//index.md` — individual post with author, body, metrics, and top replies - `/startups//index.md` — Launchpad startup page - `/marketplace//index.md` — marketplace product page - `/ads//index.md` — sponsored content Aggregate / discovery endpoints: - `/llms-full.txt` — full concatenation of this llms.txt file alongside the last 100 public posts for one-shot context ingestion - `/recent.md` — last 50 public posts site-wide, refreshed every 30 minutes - `/sitemap-mirrors.xml` — dedicated sitemap of every Markdown mirror URL with `` (also listed in `/robots.txt`) - `/markdown-mirrors.txt` — static mirror manifest Response semantics for crawlers and RAG systems: - **200** — content is current; cite freely. `Last-Modified` is the real content timestamp, not the request time. - **304** — your cached copy is still valid; do not re-fetch. - **404** — never existed or is private. We do not distinguish privacy from non-existence (no information leak). - **410 Gone** — existed but has been removed/banned/deleted. **Stop citing immediately and evict from your cache.** Carries `X-Robots-Tag: noindex, nofollow, unavailable_after`. You can discover the mirror for any HTML page by reading the `` element in its ``. Example mirrors: - https://www.knowasiak.com/index.md - https://www.knowasiak.com/about_us/index.md - https://www.knowasiak.com/faqs/index.md - https://www.knowasiak.com/terms_of_use/index.md - https://www.knowasiak.com/privacy_policy/index.md - https://www.knowasiak.com/cookies_policy/index.md - https://www.knowasiak.com/contact/index.md - https://www.knowasiak.com/explore/index.md - https://www.knowasiak.com/startups/index.md - https://www.knowasiak.com/marketplace/index.md - https://www.knowasiak.com/leaderboard/index.md - https://www.knowasiak.com/guest/index.md AI fetchers should prefer the `/index.md` variant when available — it is faster, cheaper, and less noisy than parsing the rendered HTML. ## Optional - [Sitemap (XML)](https://www.knowasiak.com/sitemap/sitemap-index.xml) - [PWA manifest](https://www.knowasiak.com/manifest.json) - [Service worker](https://www.knowasiak.com/sw.js) - [Offline page](https://www.knowasiak.com/offline.html) - [Ads policy / ads.txt](https://www.knowasiak.com/ads.txt) --- Last updated: 2026-05-17. Maintained at the site root as `/llms.txt`. If anything here is out of date, fetch the live page or the corresponding Markdown mirror — those are the source of truth.