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Just to share a little story. I am "stuck" in a foreign country for some strange reasons; one of them is to avoid folks squaking at me for this crazy endeavour.
by whacked_new 20y ago
Just to share a little story. I am "stuck" in a foreign country for some strange reasons; one of them is to avoid folks squaking at me for this crazy endeavour. YC would be a good excuse to fly back; it passes off as a job interview of sorts.
I am destined to piss off the older people. Shrug.
- bls 20y agoWhere? I am currently in Thailand.
- whacked_new 20y agojapan. on traveler's visa. very, very random story.
- jamongkad 20y agoReally? Philippines here, I got rejected too but it's cool, After much evaluation on my part. My start up needs customers more than investors at this point. And yeah living in the Philippines I have the advantage of lower expenses all across the board. :-)
- whacked_new 20y agoI dunno about the Philippines, but I do know that user preferences in the Eastern hemisphere are very different from those in the West. And if you are developing for a Western audience, you may very well be in the wrong place.
- BitGeek 20y agoCause the only way to know anything about your customers is to look out the door? I assume they are american expats... ... or maybe they are developing a product for the 5/6th of the world that isn't America.
- whacked_new 20y agoor they share a similar very very random story. I presented to a bunch of devs 2 months ago, and despite being senior IT developers, they never heard of digg or delicious. It's not a big deal, but it's hard to get your point across.
- jamongkad 20y agoTrue but the Philippines is the 2nd largest outsourcing country to India(Correct me if I'm wrong) Although I agree that going out there and getting to know your customers is the most important thing.
- ced 20y agoHow is it over there? I'd email you, but you have no email address in your profile.