dominikpoljak in #general 3d

Hey, I'm from Zagreb you can DM me

nazim848 in #india 3d

Hi Ayush 👋
Nazim here from Rampur, Uttar Pradesh.

What you do?

nazim848 in #india 3d

Hi Ayush 👋
Nazim here from Rampur, Uttar Pradesh.

What you do?

biggihs in #hong-kong 3d

Anyone have opinions on what it's like in HK over the new years? I'm thinking about staying for 2 weeks over the new years before going over to Sapporo in Jan. Is it worth it for such a short visit? I'll be on "holiday" for the first week but have to work the second week.

minonomad in #general 3d

Insane

goldenagesurfer in #general 3d

What sidequest are you on? I love it

aferrari in #united-states 3d

Coming to NYC in early Nov. Looking for an great/affordable place to stay, Craiglist still the go-to?

dkarabey in #entrepreneurship 3d

I soft-rejected a great role in Growth from an a16z startup recently because I’m pouring into my startup Animus fulltime. I saw something the other day, since then I think the way to the confidence he mentions there is to just have moderate optimism. Too much optimism and pessimism will keep you exactly where you are, frozen and immobile. Changed my outlook on a lot of things that show up along the way, obstacles or not.

Anyone building for B2B here? Let’s connect and form our little founder support group sometime. 😅

atti1a in #entrepreneurship 3d

yes. what are you working on with Animus?

dkarabey in #entrepreneurship 3d

How long are you there? I’ll attend a Google Devs event next month

atti1a in #entrepreneurship 3d

what does that look like?

atti1a in #entrepreneurship 3d

what does that look like?

dkarabey in #entrepreneurship 3d

For now it’s a web app that connects to everyone favorite tools and extracts traces, then we did some NLP R&D there (I dropped out of Linguistics to pursue ML & my cofounder’s a Computational Linguist) and we connect it to the company-wide used LLM to power undecided cases without everyone asking the founders or team leads a zillion questions every day. I’m pressure testing it for compliance rn, I’m a data activist so I know some regulations by heart. The MVP isn’t out yet because we hit a paywall before we get to pilots, and we’re estimating costs while talking to angels within our network.

noelantonio in #turkey 3d

Hey guys

noelantonio in #turkey 3d

Anyone in Istanbul?

dkarabey in #turkey 3d

How long will you be there? I’ll attend a Google Devs event there next month

noelantonio in #turkey 3d

I'm here until Sunday

dkarabey in #turkey 3d

Enjoy the city!

biggihs in #hong-kong 2d

I'm also curious about this, I'm looking at coworking spaces on Hong Kong Island, is that maybe not the place to be?

tristant in #thailand 2d

what's a good site to use for finding a 1-month stay at a condo in bangkok/chiang mai? airbnb options seem pretty expensive because of the service fees. any tips for finding a place would be appreciated

jeniapus in #thailand 2d

for a month thats pretty much the only option you have

alexkocch in #thailand 2d

facebook, airbnb or through friends. BKK is getting pretty tough minimum is six months and for the really good towers usually not less than a year. I have an apartment which might can be given away for shorter period, you can hit me up might makes sense for your case

atti1a in #entrepreneurship 2d

interesting, so using traces to codify decision-making and share with broader team. are you getting data sovereignty pushback? and what paywall did you hit?

harentambi in #japan 2d

anyone join the digital nomad meetup in S-Tokyo 17 september?

dkarabey in #entrepreneurship 2d

We’re working on the compliance side before pilots, the paywall is that we haven’t received any funding yet as the idea dawned on us mid July and now we need AI & cloud credits to power the pilots. Also, we’re trying to keep our commitment fulltime and hire a founding engineer to ensure consistent quality so we can convert & expand faster. Because even though we gave strong team no one here is a fullstack dev. 😅

dkarabey in #entrepreneurship 2d

That’s the least of the problems btw but we wanna launch and start pilots as soon as credits & compliance checks are cleared. There’s a catch about the compliance side:
- The pilots will start in Türkiye, so product must comply with KVKK standards.
- Good part is; I know parts of the regulation from heart as I’m a data activist and we’ve been building this solution as privacy-first as it gets from day 1. I also volunteered alongside some lawyers on this subject and made connections I’m planning to activate to audit our approach.

As we’re waiting to hear back from some angels in our network, we keep building towards the launch. We try to keep the initial product as simple as possible as user interviews already killed 2 features we were planning to implement.

If we don’t get an offer we like from angels we’ll keep bootstrapping our efforts well into the pilots and considering using the initial version of our product to launch an AI-native service campaign for management consulting specifically for companies with bottlenecks for bus-factor.

Yes, I have been thinking only about this for the past several weeks. The idea came from a personal pain, that might be why. This June I learned I had MS when I woke up semi paralyzed one day and lost all my freelance clients. After initial treatment I’m fully healed from my paralysis but my business needed this back then, I could’ve handed over my clients to a friend from my field for a couple of months…

dkarabey in #entrepreneurship 2d

I knew better but I didn’t take precautions in time because I really took health for granted lol. You live and you learn, folks.

hatmaserat in #albania 2d

in tirana and prishtina i didn´t need LEK at all.
in fact, i didnt even see it once

samuelgregory in #albania 2d

I’m going south. So if anyone has any experience there

tristant in #thailand 2d

Yeah I figured.. did it in Chiang Mai last year. Guess that’s the extra you pay for shorter term

nilskp in #china 2d

Hey all. I'm looking for fellow nomads, who are currently in China, to help me out with some details on an app I'm building. It'll only take a few minutes of your time and I'll be super grateful.

nilskp in #china 2d

Just message me

janakaa in #sri-lanka 2d

sorry but this wording gives the wrong impression. the way Naz worded it gives the right impression "It is a bit more expensive if you aim to match the comfort of Vietnam.". "established" is a keyword. those places as I see it have been operating for a period of time like a decade+ and competition has levelled it out so you get better value for money like the quality of accommodation you get for $x per month. concrete example is Hikkaduwa vs Ahangama (former established, latter not).

the bottom end of living cos is way low if you are willing to live simple.

also unfortunately high import taxes mean many nice things are closer to or more expensive than Europe and the US.

minonomad in #ai-artificial-intelligence 2d

Everyone busy coding hahah

minonomad in #ai-artificial-intelligence 2d

Working on automating my SEO Agency with Ai

minonomad in #artificial-intelligence 2d

What about you Steve?

qaishw in #entrepreneurship 2d

For the AI & cloud credits, I worked at a VC-backed startup in AI and we were able to get $100K in Google cloud credits to use for cloud and AI models, you can also get similar things from AWS & Azure.

Bootstrapped can get much lower credits, for example I was able to get a client $1K at AWS and can apply again to get up to $5K, I also applied to Cloudflare for some infra stuff and got them $10K for 1 year.

As a start you can apply as bootstrapped and move from there.

dkarabey in #entrepreneurship 2d

We’re not VC backed yet so AWS is out of reach but I signed up for Microsoft for Startups. Most startup programs request a VC referral and I’ve evaluated around 11.

As for Microsoft, it’s nice to work with Azure but the models they’re offering when bootstrapped kinda shook me. Still, we’re not a GPT wrapper so we can work with those. 😅

qaishw in #entrepreneurship 2d

Honestly, I like these credits because of the LLMs they provide, I like to use Cloudflare as cloud infra.

You can apply to AWS as bootstrapped, I went into the process and got accepted! as well to Azure and GCP I guess.

Know that GCP only gives you Gemini models, but AWS gives you a wider range like Anthropic models and more.

If you face any issues or need help feel to ask (not selling anything, just glad to help since I've been there too 🙂)

danielpetrica in #italy 2d

On October 3-4 we organize DevFest Modena: the only DevFest in Emilia-Romagna.
Admission is free.
Five tracks to choose from: cloud & platform engineering, AI agents and dev tools, AI: data
Robotics and society, mobile web and dev experience, growth and tech culture.
From communities to community. A great occasion to meet the local community, network, and grow. Talks are in both Italian and English.
We are GDG Cloud Modena, with Modena.rb, Knowing Linux and many others.
I would love to do a nomad meeting too if anyone is interested during Saturday.

dkarabey in #entrepreneurship 2d

I’ll look into AWS again, I noted it down to be revisited after VC backing on my notebook.

Thanks! 🙏🏻

qaishw in #entrepreneurship 2d

This is a hack I sometimes do, might be useful to someone

If you have many AI credits from multiple places, and maybe you bought directly as API from a provider, you can use openrouter and use the BYOK service, and put all these API keys there, then user openrouter to use all the APIs you have without needing to make your platform linked only to AWS or GCP or Azure or a single provider 😉
But they might take 5% at some threshold

sammyblackstar in #entrepreneurship 2d

Opencode sometimes has good free to use models directly integrated with 1 setting.

janakaa in #entrepreneurship 2d

super ineresting insight! 🙏

fraserh in #poland 2d

Hey I’m here! Arrived Monday here till Friday then onto Krakow

fraserh in #poland 2d

Can grab lunch or dinner together if you fancy

jasiek in #poland 2d

ahh tomorrow will be difficult

atti1a in #entrepreneurship 2d

have you thought about just pushing an mvp to the potential uses you've chatted with thus far? don't think compliance is a massive issue early on... they are trusting you. also, you can get a few thousand in credits from gcp/aws by just saying you're a startup. that should get you going..

dkarabey in #entrepreneurship 2d

Yes, they’re mostly personal connections. But the product touches to many data points by nature so we want to make it as compliant as we can before we make it self-service. However, we’ll likely start offering daily AI-native consultancy services soon (maybe even tomorrow) using Animus before waiting for it to become ready to launch to cover our costs and launch with a stronger marketing strategy.

Credits are mostly handed more freely to VC-backed startups but we’ll check again for aws.

dkarabey in #entrepreneurship 2d

We like moving fast & we feel as though VCs and angels are moving too slow.

jyotiranjan in #laos 2d

How is laos for new year

jyotiranjan in #laos 2d

Or is Thailand better

jyotiranjan in #thailand 2d

How is journey from udon thani to laos

leonox in #artificial-intelligence 2d

You are jsut not in the right channel TBH

ooguzz in #entrepreneurship 2d

Hello entrepreneurs

davidwyness in #introduce-yourself 1d

Hello everyone, I am David from the UK. Soon to start as a digital nomad in South Africa and South America

davidwyness in #brazil 1d

Hi guys, best coworker spaces in Curitiba?

davidwyness in #general 1d

Best podcasts for new digital nomads?

alicodermaker in #general 1d

Damn. How expensive is it?

franlitvay in #general 1d

my latin life

marianaohashi in #introduce-yourself 1d

Hi, I am Mariana Ohashi, I am from Brazil (Japanese Descendant) and I am currently in Bangkok.

Feel free to send me a message if you want ot interact.

marianaohashi in #brazil 1d

Hi, James.

I will be in Floripa next week. I added you in case you want to chat.

gringo in #brazil 1d

Nice will reply

arthurhosang in #general 1d

Where are job opportunities being posted?

arthurhosang in #general 1d

I can’t find the channel Remote Jobs anymore

aurrou in #mexico 1d

Hi! Has anyone been to Sayulita or Puerto Escondido? I’ve never been to Mexico and I’m trying to get a feel for the vibe in each place.

I’m looking for somewhere that feels safe and social. I was recently in Koh Phangan, Thailand, where a lot of the social scene seemed to revolve around either partying or healing activities. I just want a relax place. For example I love Chiang Mai.

Thanks for the reco!

quaid in #thailand 1d

Generally fine. Buses go from UT bus terminal every couple of hours from early morning to mid-afternoon. Takes around 2 hours. If it’s busy at the border and your visa process takes a while the bus will leave without you so you will have to take a taxi into Vientiane. You won’t be the only one so you can arrange to share a taxi with other passengers.
You can also take a train. It’s slower (I think ~3 hours) and has fewer departure options; IIRC there’s one early morning and one late afternoon. You can check baolao or 12go to confirm times. Less chaotic border process. You take a bus or taxi from the arrival station into Vientiane itself. Or take a taxi to the other station if you’re heading straight on to VV or LP

edlindsay98 in #introduce-yourself 1d

Hey everyone, Im ned from Australia. Soon to start digital nomad in Chiang Mai.
If you're familiar with the place, Id love to donnect to ask a few questions about the city. 🙏

atti1a in #entrepreneurship 1d

they are waiting to see progress. customers/pilots show progress. 9/10 compliance is not what people are waiting for to try a product.

bohdandrozdov in #entrepreneurship 1d

you are worrying about compliance is not a "moving fast"

fraserh in #poland 1d

I could do lunch Friday before I go on to Krakow?

rafaeldzik in #georgia 1d

Hey does anyone want to meet on Tbilisi today or tomorrow? Or have some recommendations place?

ywolfgang in #brazil 22h

Hey Rebbeka, I'm in Recife too. Let's meet up, there's a language exchange group in BV on Saturday.

danielpetrica in #italy 21h

https://devfest.modena.it/en/

dkarabey in #entrepreneurship 20h

Well we don’t want it to be perfect as an MVP, we just want it to be decent. The product traces through conversations, emails, meeting notes etc by nature, so…

dkarabey in #entrepreneurship 20h

But it’s good feedback, maybe we can worry about a big chunk of it as the pilots go~

francescocelli in #italy 20h

Ciao guys! Anyone in Rimini? Feel free to DM and let's connect!

tomasruta in #georgia 19h

Any hiking groups to join anyone can recommend?

adiiil in #kazakhstan 19h

October or November? Applied for October and still on the waitlist.

ramcoelho in #united-states 18h

Anyone in Manhattan up for grabbing a drink and making some new friends?

patrickg in #colombia 18h

in medellin with my finance for the next month also maybe we can do a meetup with a few people here?

mariohabashy in #kazakhstan 17h

I am doing October - I had applied weeks ago

aferrari in #united-states 17h

Can you wait until Nov? 😂

ramcoelho in #united-states 17h

I can come back 😂😂😂

unsalkorkmaz in #turkey 17h

Hello 👋,
I live in Antalya / Turkey.

dccb in #thailand 16h

In my experience, Bangkok Christian Hospital and St Louis are amongst the cheapest. However, all of them have either LINE, WhatsApp, or a Facebook account. It will be listed on their website. Draft a nice letter with all the procedure details and send it to all of them.

ketansahu in #india 15h

Try at night IST, when the traffic is less, it might work :)

esmeee in #united-arab-emirates 14h

yes they re expensive but very efficient :)

esmeee in #united-arab-emirates 14h

very interesting at least , im in Dubai and will have a project in Greece also soon :)

ghosty in #argentina 13h

Anyone want to go to bars this weekend

ghosty in #argentina 13h

In Palermo

thewritingdev in #turkey 13h

Ahh I was just there

thewritingdev in #turkey 13h

Turkey is amazing need to come back for Scuba training

benjohnsonf in #vietnam 10h

Hey mino would you mind sharing the link for this please?

ilyass in #morocco 1h

Hey folks, this weekend I am moving to Tamraght. I am looking for a place where I could find a good gym, kitchen a coworking space with good internet. Any recommendations?

minonomad in #vietnam 1h

Hahaha so many people asking

minonomad in #vietnam 1h

The Problem is I can’t Share here in the group

minonomad in #vietnam 1h

The bot deleted the message with the link

minonomad in #vietnam 1h

Here you go https://www.danangdigitalnomads.com/community

minonomad in #vietnam 19min

I also have another one for Hoi An for people that are interested

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