I'm not saying it's impossible at all but if your goal is to make money so you can quit your job and go indie, you want to increase the odds and not make it harder for yourself.
You can make B2C later once B2B money comes in and you can live off it.
I know this seems counter to what I do: Nomad List is B2C. But with Nomad List I do the jobs of an entire startup team of developers, a designer, a marketer, an exec etc. If that'd be charged by market rates it'd be loss making at $450k/y which it makes now
Nomad List's VC funded competitors were teams of 10-30 people. To give a market equivalent example.
And I love working on Nomad List. B2C is more fun as a passion although more painful as a business.
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🌉 Lisbon is now
- the most visited city on nomadlist.com (>2x more than Bali)
- the most active channel on Nomad List chat
- #2 in nomads visiting based on trip logs
I think Lisbon (and much of Portugal) works because it's:
- mild California-like climate, not too cold, not too hot
- affordable relative to most of EU
- walkable (unlike much of SE Asia / world)
- friendly people
- lot of intl people already, easy to make friends
- tax benefits
- vibrant nomad / remote worker scene so nice feedback loop
- foreign land and real estate ownership (unlike SE Asia)
- foreigners have solid legal protections (unlike SE Asia)
- not much corruption (unlike SE Asia)
* 🇲🇽 Mexico is mentioned as a country because as a whole it's growing like a rocket, specific cities: Cancun, Playa del Carmen, Tulum, Mexico City, Puerto Vallarta etc.
Typical nomad hubs in Asia like 🏝 Bali etc. are still some of the most popular but their relative growth isn't high or they're not growing due to COVID travel restrictions
I foresee after COVID travel restrictions end those to boom too
🎁 I think the best gift you can give your friends right now is a 2FA hardware key: it will protect them from getting their accounts hacked and their crypto stolen via SIM swapping
This one in particular:
- works with USB-C on MacBook Pro
- works with wireless NFC with iPhone yubico.com/th/product/yub…
Make sure you get a couple so you have some backups in case you lose it
2FA hardware keys are NOT difficult to set up, here's how:
- insert into USB port or use NFC wireless
- go to a website that supports it like @Coinbase and go to settings
- click [ add hardware key ], tap the Yubikey
- done
👨🔬🧪 Results from the Nomad List membership pricing test: $79.99 (one-time-payment) is the highest revenue generating price at $34,407/mo with 430/mo sign ups
I had $99.99 for a long time but as you see it actually made me have less revenue: $19,435/mo, so it was overpriced