You have to be careful, as most places will have strict regulations against working while on a tourist visa. Thailand won't even let you volunteer, and they wi

You have to be careful, as most places will have strict regulations against working while on a tourist visa. Thailand won't even let you volunteer, and they will deport you if they catch you. If you have anything that looks like an office, and you have "tourists" in there hacking, you could get in a lot of trouble. Don't know what the rules are in Indonesia, but you should definitely talk to a lawyer first. Having said that, I've been in Thailand for a while, and the same idea keeps popping into my head. If I were bootstrapping a company, I would much rather fly with my partners out here for 6 months than try to rent an office in SF. I can see one major problem with the execution though: people are going to get beach fever for the first month or so, so don't expect productivity to be very high. You might want to schedule a few weeks of partying in, just to get it out of their systems.