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Re: Show HN: NomadHouse – A network of houses around the world for nomads

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Post by practicalpants »

atudoute wrote: post #32
sixQuarks wrote: post #31

I'm interested in co-working/co-living spaces, but I'm a bit older (late 30s), I don't want to do the "hostel" thing, and I want to be around others who are successfully running real remote businesses with decent income. My problem with the whole nomad thing is that most "nomads" are just bloggers starting out. It seems most have just saved enough money to live off of (frugally), and are calling themselves digital no…

Thanks for the feedback. I'm a freelancer since 4 year and I'm trying to change the world to be a better place, but I understand you that I never done anything before.

Well, I hope your aims are sincere... I am getting a little annoyed with these digital nomad 'startups' that just want to make money off of other digital nomads, like they're any other market segment to fit a product to. "The Digital Nomad Space." Sucks where it's heading. Like the recent poster doing a similar thing as you but more pricey with a REIT investment group potentially backing him (he's also promoting you, so I don't know, maybe you, him, the nomad list guy are all working together... not that it really matters)... or the "nomad year" venture where you throw down a ton of money to have everything planned out for you (kind of the opposite of being digital nomad IMO), or that IMO unjustifiable digital nomad 'insider' forum where you have to pay simply to chat with other digital nomads. I'm not a cheap person, I just want to keep SV profiteering out of digital nomad land. There are some main culprits, individuals, that come to mind (nobody I'm going to name)... but oh well, what can you really expect?

On the bright side, there's a huge opportunity for someone to sweep through all of this and just offer free concierge services for digital nomads. I met someone working on this, I imagine there are others. That will ultimately take the day when someone gets that formula right. Something more of the spirit of couch surfing.

I'm ranting. Anyways, if you can manage cheap rates at really cool pads, in a way that's better than just splitting an AirBnB with other nomads, then that is something pretty cool.

Re: Show HN: NomadHouse – A network of houses around the world for nomads

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Post by [deleted] »

sixQuarks wrote: post #31

I'm interested in co-working/co-living spaces, but I'm a bit older (late 30s), I don't want to do the "hostel" thing, and I want to be around others who are successfully running real remote businesses with decent income. My problem with the whole nomad thing is that most "nomads" are just bloggers starting out. It seems most have just saved enough money to live off of (frugally), and are calling themselves digital no…

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Re: Show HN: NomadHouse – A network of houses around the world for nomads

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Post by kephra »

Moin atudute,

you have !NOTHING! to show, at least not to me from the viewpoint of a search engine author. You show an empty page without JavaScript.

ok ... lets be a nice human and allow scripts. Allowing nomadhouse.io: still blank page. Google maps sounds interesting, when looking at the 3rd party scripting domains. But still a blank page. Mixpanel, Segment, Addthis, ... hey ... how many evil 3rd party tracking scripts does this site run? And still a blank page.

Finally: Stripe w-hat ... I need to enable scripting of a payment provider to view the page?

Where are the google maps, I hoped to see with maps.bigbrotherapis? Or are they also only include to add an other tracking?

Clicking on Berlin, I get a popup asking for registering a user. So you basically have a big expensive, complicated landing page, with a lot of tracking, but search engine blocking, that does nothing but asking for my mail address.

sorry ... no bounty. I'm harsh now, but your site fails completely, even if the service might be interesting. You might get a good peak now with postings on HN, but ensure your site is accessible without JS for search engines. You have only a few days time, that good links might result in a good SEO. Change your site asap.

Re: Show HN: NomadHouse – A network of houses around the world for nomads

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Post by archagon »

kephra wrote: post #63

Moin atudute, you have !NOTHING! to show, at least not to me from the viewpoint of a search engine author. You show an empty page without JavaScript. ok ... lets be a nice human and allow scripts. Allowing nomadhouse.io: still blank page. Google maps sounds interesting, when looking at the 3rd party scripting domains. But still a blank page. Mixpanel, Segment, Addthis, ... hey ... how many evil 3rd party tracking scr…

Frankly, the people who want to live in a place like this will figure out how to work the site. Maybe it's better that way.

Re: Show HN: NomadHouse – A network of houses around the world for nomads

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Post by anonnomad »

sixQuarks wrote: post #31

I'm interested in co-working/co-living spaces, but I'm a bit older (late 30s), I don't want to do the "hostel" thing, and I want to be around others who are successfully running real remote businesses with decent income. My problem with the whole nomad thing is that most "nomads" are just bloggers starting out. It seems most have just saved enough money to live off of (frugally), and are calling themselves digital no…

There's plenty of digital nomads building legimitate business or doing proper remote "work" (see my comment below). They tend not to be too outspoken, write blog posts, because they are busy, well, doing work. Most of these folks however don't travel too much anymore as they have found a home-base they feel productive in.

Re: Show HN: NomadHouse – A network of houses around the world for nomads

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Post by jonbai »

archagon wrote: post #21
atudoute wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the feedback. I'm not into investors and I would like to keep this startup on the track to get more and more houses around the world.

That's good to hear! I'm very much looking forward to what you'll have in stock for London and Berlin.

Exciting stuff indeed :)

I also wrote a while back about what me & a bunch of other people in London have in mind..

https://medium.com/nomad-house/nomad-house-london-project-58...

Re: Show HN: NomadHouse – A network of houses around the world for nomads

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Post by archagon »

d13 wrote: post #53

I live on the India/Nepal/Thailand "Digital Hippie" circuit and can confirm the following living costs if you're doing it on your on your own without booking anything else in advance: Thailand (islands like Koh Tao or Koh Phangan): $700/month. Kathmandu/Pokhara: $300-$400/month. Big cities in India (Pune, Bangalore, Calcutta): $1000/month, small towns in India (Goa, Dharmsala, Naggar, Leh): $500/month. These costs in…

Man, those are some nice prices. I'm currently traveling in Europe (mostly Western) and my monthly spendings hover around $2100/month on average. (Would be a lot less if I didn't go out to eat so much!) How is life on those islands? Is there a social scene?
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