Then I added different indicators to the score, like temperature. The cut off point for me would be 2000 EUR of cost of living per month, after which it would the score would become negative. I wanted the cost of living to be the most heavy weighted part of this though, so I started with that. So I made a formula that added up scores. Just ranking them by cost of living would be too basic. Wanting to make it like a leaderboard with points like Reddit, I needed to score the locations. To make it official, I called this NomadCost.
I know there’s always more stuff to pay for, but these are the very basics. Having only meal prices, I simulated the other ones by making it a % of a basic meal’s price, which works about right for now. I eat outside 3 times a day (cause I don’t have a kitchen), have drinks with food and will go out maybe once a week. How do they live? Taking cues from myself, I stay in a single private room in a hostel or cheap hotel, sometimes rent a 1-bedroom apartment if I stay longer. But this cost of living would have to be based on a typical nomad though. I sent it around to a few friends with Ben Drucker from Valet.io giving great feedback on the user interface and helping build it. I kept the main indicators in a clickable list, which expanded into more data: While building it, I took a lot of design cues from ProductHunt. I actually asked BetaList’s founder Marc to pick one, and he said Nomad List would be better brandable. Inspired by BetaList, and it literally being a list, I thought of RemoteList or Nomad List. There was some proprietary data people put on there which I deleted (like Numbeo) and made sure it was all crowd sourced public (and open) data. It quickly filled up and with Twitter going crazy about just a spreadsheet list, I had just answered the hypothesis if there’d be interest for this. Apart from filling in all the data, people started adding columns for different indicators, like level of safety, coffee shop density and LGBTQ-friendliness: Help me build the definitive list of locations for digital nomads+remote workers, edit w/ me /DMnVPaYi88 Instead of building a site first, I simply made public Google spreadsheet to collect the first data and see if there’d be interest for this at all: I also knew I had to start out as basic as possible to test demand first. I knew I couldn’t collect 50 indicators for 50 cities myself, as that’d be 2,500 data points to complete. So I started collecting data on this for different cities.
The primary factor for people that take part in this lifestyle is cost of living and quality of living. So I wanted to make a simple list of cities that were good for this kind of lifestyle. But what other cities? I thought we needed a city index for remote workers. I heard for example some people trying to do this in Medellin in Colombia and Ubud in Bali, Indonesia. I knew some cities had entire communities doing this like Chiang Mai, but it was hard to figure out what other cities would be suitable. They were freelancers, remote employees or startups founders. While traveling and working from different places in the world I met lots of other people doing the same thing. But it’s fun since it shows you how this project went from nothing to something and everything that happened in the course of building and launching it. Which feels absolutely insane!īe warned, this is probably my longest post yet. And it might be the most successful thing I’ve built since I started my YouTube network Panda Mix Show years ago. This month’s startup definitely went the best of them all though.
1) PlayMyInbox got covered by MTV and Lifehacker, 2) Tubelytics was quickly adopted by some big media brands while 3) GoFuckingDoIt went completely viral and was featured all over the media including TheNextWeb, AppSumo and WIRED. They’re all minimum viable products, built to test a hypothesis and see if they can get a market fit in a month. I just launched my 4th startup called Nomad List as part of my goal to launch 12 startups in 12 months.
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