VC money has saturated B2C industries to make it almost impossible to compete with them as an indie maker

B2B problems to solve are much more broad, have more profitable niches because companies spend money much easier than individuals
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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13 Sep
🌉 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)
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🤳 TikTok is now the most watched video app in U.S., surpassing YouTube

🛍 SHEIN is now the biggest fast-fashion retailer in the U.S., surpassing H&M, Zara and Forever 21

🕹 PUBG is the most played game

Chinese companies are silently ending U.S. tech dominance
Sources:
TikTok (by ByteDance CN): bbc.co.uk/news/technolog…
SHEIN CN: retaildive.com/news/shein-sur…
PUBG (by Tencent CN): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_m…
Have to mention that there's lots of regulatory movement in China now from gov AGAINST Chinese tech companies now of course:

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

But I think that's a short term thing, and so does Cathie Wood from ARK scmp.com/business/compa…
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I just bought my first billboard in front of Apple's headquarters
Thanks for @harrydry for the inspiration

Left pic is a mockup, the final billboard will be displayed digitally in San Jose (nearest billboard I could find near Apple's HQ in Cupertino)

The reason is engadget.com/apple-employee…
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6 Jun
📡 Fastest growing remote work hubs:

1. 🇲🇽 Mexico
2. 🇪🇸 Canary Islands
3. 🇦🇪 Dubai
4. 🇺🇸 Miami
5. 🇨🇴 Medellin
6. 🇺🇸 Denver
7. 🌺 Hawaii
8. 🇹🇷 Istanbul

*based on data from 132,303 check-ins as of June 2021

nomadlist.com/fastest-growin…
* 🇲🇽 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.

nomadlist.com/fastest-growin…
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
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🎁 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

My fav is yubikey.com
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
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15 May
👨‍🔬🧪 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

1/2
👀 VERY interesting (and economically obvious) is that there is a big valley of low sales from $100 to $500

People either buy at the <$100 low end, or the >$500 high end: e.g. $499, $849, $1299

There's hardly any middle ground

That explains those $1000+ courses you see
The $79.99 sweet spot which I learned was optimal from the test I applied in real life

...and it has been working, revenue is up and trailing twelve months has never been so high: $365k/y!

nomadlist.com/open
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