To offer another example that occurred to me when I was reading this: HN's Jason Kester has frequently written about how his simple, little app S3Stat allows hi

To offer another example that occurred to me when I was reading this: HN's Jason Kester has frequently written about how his simple, little app S3Stat allows him to travel the world, rock-climbing and working when he wants to, with S3Stat itself requiring next to no maintenance. See, for example, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1925214 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1925214