I agree that this is the hardest part, and you’ve pointed out the reason why developer tools seem to be over represented in startups. For this reason, I mention

I agree that this is the hardest part, and you’ve pointed out the reason why developer tools seem to be over represented in startups. For this reason, I mentioned to check job listings and see what responsibilities they are looking to hire someone to take on. Just a personal thought (and please tell I’m wrong if this is not the case), I think Eastern Europe as market is ripe for good tech innovation. To my knowledge, it’s not “behind” but products and services seem to reach there after being recycled from Western and Central European companies, with translations into local languages being spotty at best and nonexistent at worst. Someone who lives in a culturally-isolated place might have the upper hand at solving specific problems and being a native speaker of the local language would you give you the upper hand and no competition should you elect to write software to help that doesn’t exist where you are. This could be especially true if you can find software that they wish they could use but is not translated into an language that makes it useful for them.