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Hey -- author here Working remotely for a US company from Japan is great if you can swing it. Especially now with the weak yen (assuming you earn USD). The main issue is getting a …

> And I think the answer is the language barrier. This may contribute, but it's not the main issue imo. I've worked with tons of Japanese devs and English didn't hold them back muc…

To see your page content, crawlers need to load your JS and wait for it to hydrate the page. Google does this (but it's still not ideal). Most other crawlers don't. That means they…

We made it free to post jobs, and then charged a fee upon successful hire. So that made it a win-win for companies. We promote your jobs for free, if you don't hire anyone you've l…

Yeah these are good points, I guess if the yen never recovers you'd take a hit. The current exchange rate is an outlier though. At least historically, you've had the chance to conv…

Cost-of-living comparisons get complex, but I can give you my personal opinion. Let's assume SF vs Tokyo. To live the same lifestyle and have the same amount of disposable income a…

Yeah definitely. I just used the stack I was used to, didn't really turn out to be the best stack for the job... Kubernetes is completely unnecessary, although I do enjoy using it.…

Yeah they do. Established companies will have at least one senior HR person who can OK that level of spend. Small startups might need approval from from an exec like the CTO. 30-35…

Thanks a lot! I'm not really thinking too deeply about exiting yet. But I guess if I wanted to work on other things, the main options would be: (1) Automate + delegate as much of t…

Great, really glad to hear that!

Is it possible you have Javascript disabled? Unfortunately it's an SPA so it requires JS. I regret this decision... If not then it might be due to an ad blocker issue (specifically…

Sure! I started out on MailChimp, but recently switched to Bento ( https://bentonow.com/ ) I really like it.

Thanks a lot! Here's the basic stack: • Rails API • Vue SPA w/ ViteJS • MySQL • K8s on Digital Ocean • Cloudflare worker + caching • Bento for emails • Algolia for search / filters…

The site is a Vue.js single page application. That's just the front-end stack I knew the best — I realize it's terrible for those who don't want to run javascript. Sorry!

Interesting, can you let me know which ad blocker so I can try to reproduce?

Oh wow thanks for checking, that's helpful to know. I should probably restructure things so that one component failing doesn't bring down the whole site if I can...

Thanks! Yeah, the space has gotten pretty crowded but it can still work really well if you niche down imo. And I niched down hard.

Yep this is a major part of my strategy (Hi, I'm the guy who built the site). Like I mention in the post, I have emails, names and URLs for everyone who applies. I also know how ma…