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💾 Pieter.com

<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://Pieter.com">Pieter.com</a> runs on <a target="" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://github.com/dreamlayers/em-dosbox">Em-DOSBox</a> which is DOSBox ported to Emscripten so it can run in your browsers.Easier to say, your browser has JavaScript and that is used to create a virtual PC that I then run MS-DOS on.DOS thinks it’s actually running on a real physical PC from the 1990s.Then I installed Windows 3.11 on top of DOS and you get this.<a target="" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://x.com/bai0">@bai0</a> then helped me build a working dial-up modem and internet service provider (ISP) at <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://isp.pieter.com">isp.pieter.com</a> which then lets that virtual PC dial up into the internet and actually let you use the modern-day web on a 1990s computer.That dial up connection is routed in Em-DOSBox over Websockets to a PPP daemon which routes traffic forward and back.I also host a lot of different servers to make 1990s tech work on virtual PC again like:<ul><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://irc.pieter.com">irc.pieter.com</a>: a real IRC server that lets mIRC work and let you chat to other people</li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://ftp.pieter.com">ftp.pieter.com</a>: a real FTP server that lets WS_FTP connect, download and upload files</li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://mail.pieter.com">mail.pieter.com</a>: a real POP3 and SMPT server that lets Eudora Mail check and send emails (but only to the computer itself at <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="mailto:web@pieter.com">web@pieter.com</a>)</li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://isp.pieter.com">isp.pieter.com</a>: a real dial-up ISP that lets the computer have dial up internet at 56k6 speeds, but soon ISDN, this part was hardest and is built by <a target="" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://x.com/bai0">@bai0</a> </li></ul>

How does Pieter.com work?

When I was a kid I remember the first times I used my dad’s computer and it was running Windows 3.1, it changed my life and just the interface with the icons was so magical. One of my dreams actually was to have my own “icon” or well just a program in the program manager. Which I think is what led me to coding.Another moment I remember was the first time I saw the internet. A friend of my brother visited our house for a LAN party and he had to download a driver for a network card I think. He took his modem out, connected the telephone plug in our outlet, opened WinSock and the modem sound started playing.He was focused on downloading the driver files, but I was shocked seeing the internet for the first time. And kept asking him to visit all the sites (URLs) I heard existed from television. Like TMF chat, the Dutch music television channel’s chat. He opened it and it was an actually interactive website and I was shocked.I wanted to recreate this experience to keep it alive. Many people when they get to this stage of nostalgia will buy old computers and put them in their house. But that’s kinda limited. I want EVERYONE to experience the classic Windows computer and be able to do stuff with it.And most importantly it should have 24/7 internet connectivity to be part of the modern internet. Because there’s other DOS and Windows emulators on the web but none of them have actual internet connectivity. Which is the most magical part of all of this.

Why did you create Pieter.com?

Gopher is the actual predecessor to the modern WWW, no modern browser supports it anymoreBut Netscape does, and there's actually a whole world out there of people still actively using it.There's live chats, people made gateways to Reddit, and you can the live weatherAround ~1990, Gopher and HTTP were competing who would be the protocol of the web, HTTP won because of its freedom: you could design any interface in HTML without the restrictions of the Gopher menu-based systemAnd then in 1993 the University of Minnesota (who invented Gopher) really killed it when they started charging licensing fees to whoever used itIn an alternative universe HTTP wouldn't have won and we'd all still be on Gopher, but now there's 8 billion people on HTTP and about 1000 on Gopher :DIt's kinda like the dark web, but in a more happy way, it's this cosy underground part of the web, that takes a shitload of effort to even access, and that makes it more cool and fun and cosyGopher sites are called Gopherholes.Make sure to first open WSGopher on <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://pieter.com">pieter.com</a> and then enter one of the addresses below (or use the Bookmarks feature where they’re already inside of):And then:<img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0194b2c3-5824-7b0f-a58c-568e74d5f128.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left">And then open a bookmark:<img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0194b2c3-bf94-725f-83a1-1621eef3e5fe.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left">And press OK, in this case I opened a live mirror of Hacker News on Gopher called HN Gopher:<img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0194b2c4-c7a6-7cad-814e-be13d9717436.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left">You can also use Netscape to access Gopher but I prefer WSGopher:<img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0194b2cc-137f-7c48-b342-5a028a5e6c8f.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left">Here’s some nice Gopherholes to visit on the Gopher Space:<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://magical.fish">magical.fish</a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://sdf.org">sdf.org</a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://hngopher.com">hngopher.com</a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://bitreich.org">bitreich.org</a><a target="" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://gopher.661.org">gopher.661.org</a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://gopher.linuxgalaxy.org">gopher.linuxgalaxy.org</a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://gopher.metafilter.com">gopher.metafilter.com</a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://1436.ninja">1436.ninja</a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://box.matto.nl">box.matto.nl</a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://circumlunar.space">circumlunar.space</a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://codevoid.de">codevoid.de</a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://codevoid.de">codevoid.de</a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://codevoid.de">codevoid.de</a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://fnord.one">fnord.one</a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://gopher.black">gopher.black</a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://gopher.operationalsecurity.es">gopher.operationalsecurity.es</a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://gopherddit.com">gopherddit.com</a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://gopherpedia.com">gopherpedia.com</a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://i-logout.cz">i-logout.cz</a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://kamalatta.ddnss.de">kamalatta.ddnss.de</a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://katolaz.net">katolaz.net</a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://mozz.us">mozz.us</a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://republic.circumlunar.space">republic.circumlunar.space</a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://sdf.org">sdf.org</a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://sdf.org">sdf.org</a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://sdf.org">sdf.org</a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://tilde.pink">tilde.pink</a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://uberspace.net">uberspace.net</a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://uninformativ.de">uninformativ.de</a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://vger.cloud">vger.cloud</a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://viste.fr">viste.fr</a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space">zaibatsu.circumlunar.space</a>

Visiting Gopher Space with WSGopher

This is a bug that sometimes happens as the cache of the boot drive is not loaded properly.In those cases, try to delete your cache by going in Chrome to “Delete Browsing Data”.Or easier just open an Incognito wi<img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0194b364-a185-7162-80a1-8838abc513fd.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left">

I only see "Welcome to DOSBox SVN" and Windows 3.11 does not load

Generally I avoid podcasts and interviews to focus on building now because I do some seldom exceptions if it’s a really interesting and podcast with much reach like:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFtjKbXKqbg

Nope, I always work alone. I don’t want to work with anyone.

I think you should not ask me but just build a prototype and see if people will pay for it.I’m not your customer, and I have no idea ability to know if an idea is great.

All my apps/sites/startups/companies are 100% owned by me, profitable and I’m not looking for investment.

Easiest is to tweet me publicly. I’m only possibly interested if it’s 5-10x ARR.Because otherwise I might as well just wait and let my sites run for a few years and make the same money.

No, but I’ve written down literally everything I think and know about startups in my book MAKE at <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://readmake.com">readmake.com</a> and I keep updating it.

I recommend you start by Googling like “how to make a website” or even better asking AI and then it will lead you to how to do it.I’ve written down literally everything I know about startups at <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://readmake.com">readmake.com</a>

👩‍💻 Remote OK

First sign up to Remote OK at <a target="" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://remoteok.com/sign-up">remoteok.com/sign-up</a>.Choose a username and enter your email. You will get an email to complete your sign up. If you don't see it, check your spam folder too!After that you can create complete your remote worker profile. The more complete your profile is (like adding employment, education etc.), the more we show it to potential hiring companies. You will also get a public profile address you can share on your social media like:<a target="" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://rok.co/@levelsio">rok.co/@levelsio</a>

How do I create a remote worker profile?

Yes, within 14 days of your auto renewal you can get a refund by following the link to the self-refund page in the auto renewal email.We will undo your auto renewal and close your job post for new applicants.We can not refund you after 14 days because we have already re-distributed your job through our network and incurred fees for it.

My job post auto renewed but I didn't want to renew it, can I get a refund?

Go to <a target="" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://remoteok.com/hire-remotely">remoteok.com/hire-remotely</a> to post a job.Write your job’s position, description, and company details. Please specify as single job position like "Marketing Manager" or "Node JS Developer", not a sentence like "Looking for PM / Biz Dev / Manager". We know your job is important but please DO NOT WRITE IN FULL CAPS. If posting multiple roles, please create multiple job posts. A job post is limited to a single job. We only allow real jobs, absolutely no MLM-type courses "learn how to work online" please.Your company's brand/trade name: without Inc., Ltd., B.V., Pte., etc.It's illegal to not share salary range on job posts since 2021. Posts without salary will automatically show an estimate of salary based on similar jobs. Remote job postings are legally required to show a salary compensation range in many U.S. states and countries. Google does NOT index jobs without salary data. If it's a short-term gig, use the annual full-time equivalent. For example, if it's a 2-week project for $2,000, the annual equivalent would be $2,000 / 2 weeks * 52 weeks = $52,000. Please use USD equivalent. We don't have currency built-in yet and we'd like to use this salary data to show salary trends in remote work. Remote OK is a supporter of #OpenSalaries.After you’re done click [ Post a job ] and you’ll be redirected to payment.After payment your job will instantly be posted and distributed through our network of 100s of job boards than use our API to index our jobs.

How to post a remote job on Remote OK?

🏡 Interior AI

Interior AI lets you upload photos of your current interior, select a style and redesign it. It takes half a minute to generate and then you get photorealistic renders of your new interior. And best of all, you can do all this from your laptop or phone without having to pay an expensive interior designer $100s or $1000s. After sign up you get access to Interior AI's studio which lets you use 30+ room types and 50+ interior styles.

How does Interior AI's interior designer work?

Interior AI has different modes for different purposes. [ Interior design with 3D Vision ] tries to maintain the interior of your current room while changing its style. [ Interior design (2D photo) ] is the same but manipulates the space more and does not stick to the 3d objects like furniture that's already in the room. [ Virtual Staging AI ] is specifically to fill up empty spaces and stage them with furniture. [ Freestyle ] does not require any input photo, and just generates interior designs from scratch based on the style and room type you picked. [ Sketch2Image ] converts your interior sketches directly into photorealistic renderings. And finally [ SketchUp ] lets you upload a screenshot from your SketchUp design and it will transform it into a photorealistic render.

How do the different design modes work?

Yes, Interior AI has a special Virtual Staging AI mode, which lets you fill empty spaces with furniture while maintaing the building's construction. Simple upload a photo, select the room type, and interior design style you'd like to see. Then under Mode, select [ Virtual Staging AI ] and tap [ Create ].

Can I virtually stage with Interior AI?

Due to lots of fraud attempts, we've had to increase our payment security. Firstly, disable your VPN or proxy server. Then make sure your name, CVC and postal code match the one on your payment card and of your bank account. Also your card country should be the same as your billing country. And finally make sure you enable 3D Secure or similar authentication on your card with your bank.

My payment method is not accepted when signing up

We recommend uploading photos with in a straight angle towards a wall or window. Photos from angles do work but perform worse than straight photos. Make sure the photo is sharp and clearly lit. The resulting output is heavily reliant on the photo you upload as input.

What type of photos should I upload of my current interior?

We accept JPG, PNG, WebP and AVIF files only. HEIC is not supported now, so you'll have to convert those to JPG first (you can do on MacOS by right clicking → Quick Actions → Convert Image → and then JPG.

What file formats of photos do you accept as my current interior?

Based on the current processing times, it takes about 25 seconds to design one interior. You can render up to 16 designs at the same time though!

How long does it take to create an AI interior design?

We only use your photos to create AI interior design renders. We do not train on them like other companies, and your photos and renders are only accessible by you.The photos you upload and designs you generate stay private. Your personal data and images are stored securely, and our system is designed to protect your information from unauthorized access.

What will you do with my interior photos?

This service was built by me, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://x.com/levelsio">Pieter Levels (@levelsio)</a>, a Dutch indie entrepreneur known for other projects like <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://nomadlist.com/">Nomad List</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://remoteok.com/">Remote OK</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://photoai.com/">Photo AI</a> and <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://applicantai.com/">Applicant AI</a>.It’s just me on my laptop building this site without any staff (but with a lot of AI robots that help me).

Who built and is behind Interior AI?

The resemblance of your interior depends on the quality of photo you upload and which design mode you select. The better your photos, the more accurately the AI can understand and represent your home's unique characteristics. Some design modes are more accurate than others. For example selecting [ Creative ] will get you more wild ideas but they will follow your home’s construction less, so might not be realistically feasible. Selecting [ Interior design (with 3D Vision) ] sticks very close to the current shape of your home interior while only changing the style.We keep improving our models every day

How much will the AI interior redesign match my current interior and home construction?

Sometimes yes. Depending on the quality of the uploaded photo, and the type of designs you render, you might see some AI artefacts. Any app that uses generative AI imaging will have artefacts. They can be illogical things like chairs with too few legs, illogical construction etc. From our experience, about 90% of renders you make will be good enough, and 10% will be very good. We also have an editor so you can brush away artefacts yourself and regenerate those parts. We're improving Interior AI every day to reduce artefacts for example by auto-detecting them and then re-trying. But remember it's not perfect yet and we're not promising it is!

Will my AI interior designs have artefacts?

Yes, our payment processor is secure. We use Stripe for financial processing, and we do not store any information about your card ourselves.Stripe ensures bank-level security standards.

Is your payment processor secure?

We accept payments via credit or debit cards, including MasterCard, VISA, American Express, as well as iDeal, SOFORT, Bancontact, Przelewy24, Giropay, EPS, GrabPay, AliPay, and many more. However, we do not accept PayPal or cryptocurrency and are not planning to.

What payment methods do you accept?

Unfortunately, we cannot offer refunds as costs incurred for generating AI images are extremely high. In turn, our upstream providers do not let us ask for refunds for the GPU processing time used to generate your AI interior designs. This would make it a loss making endeavor for us. During sign up you agree to withhold your right to refund for this reason directly get to use the product.

Can I get a refund?

You can cancel your subscription at any time. Go to the top of Interior AI when you are logged in and click Billing, you will be redirected to the billing portal where you can download invoices, switch plans and cancel your subscription. If you are not logged in, first login: go to the top of <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://interiorai.com/">Interior AI's frontpage</a> and enter your email in the email box, click the button to continue. Follow the link in the email you got and click Billing in the top right of that page. If you can not login, no worry: click Billing on the top of <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://interiorai.com/">Interior AI's frontpage</a> and enter the email you signed up with on the billing portal. Stripe will send you an email to login and then you can download invoices, switch plans and cancel your subscription there.

How do I cancel my subscription?

If you sign up for the yearly plan, the pricing is over 50% cheaper, which means 6+ months free compared to regular monthly pricing. Make sure to select yearly and you are saving a lot of money! This is our way of thanking you for your trust in our Interior AI and lets us reinvest your money to improve the product.

How do I get 6+ months free when signing up?

Yes, immediately after payment you get an automated email with a login link. You can then create your first AI interior designs.

Do I get access to Interior AI after payment?

Yes, after payment you get a receipt and invoice sent by Stripe. And on every renewal you also get one. If you’d like to download an invoice or receipt for a specific payment, go to Interior AI’s app, and in the top right click [ Billing ]. Or go to <a target="" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://interiorai.com/billing">interiorai.com/billing</a> and login with your account email. From Stripe’s Customer Portal, you can

Can I get a receipt or invoice?

Yes, you can upgrade or downgrade your subscription at any time. Go to the top of Interior AI when you are logged in and click Billing, you will be redirected to Stripe's billing portal or the Pricing page where you can switch plans.

Can I upgrade or downgrade my subscription?

🌎 Nomads.com

🌎 Nomads.com - Support

<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://Nomads.com">Nomads.com</a> is self service which means we don’t have a customer support email and we don’t monitor social media. Instead we’ve made it as easy and fast as possible to do everything you can think of by yourself on the site, including canceling your membership, and requesting refunds.In this FAQ you can find answers to the most frequently asked questions.

Need help?

Please set a real profile photo of just your face. If the robot can't detect a face, please try a different photo. We don't allow group photos, drawings, avatars, objects, sunglasses, face coverings, shirtless pics, nudity, black and white, color filtered pics or pics that aren't you: only human profile pics please.The format of a photo should be similar to this so it doesn't get rejected:<img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0194a9d6-c753-7d04-b2af-5ff01c4d8a55.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left">If you don't like to set a profile photo, you can skip it and still use the site's filters. But you won't be able to use the social features.We request you to use a real profile photo because it’s a community on here that also stretches out into real life with meetups etc. So it helps people recognize eachoth

Why is my profile photo not accepted?

Sometimes email providers flag nomads.com as spam. Check your Spam or Junk folder to find out if our emails ended up there. If you're using Gmail, also check your promotions and social tabs for our emails.Add Nomads.com's email addresses to your address book to make sure we never get lost: no-reply@nomads.com.If it still doesn't work, try changing your email on the Settings page, and you'll receive a new link to verify that email.

I didn't receive the link to verify my email

Not getting any log in emails? Check your Spam or Junk folder to find out if our emails ended up there. If you're using Gmail, also check your promotions and social tabs for our emails.Also add Nomads.com's email addresses to your address book to make sure we never get lost:no-reply@nomads.comWe also send a log in link to your Telegram via direct message, so if you still have the Nomads.com bot Telegram open, you can check the DM there and log in via that.Don't know which email or username you used? Search for emails you got from Nomads.com (or Nomad List) before. You can also enter your X, Telegram or Instagram username in the login box, if it's connected to your Nomads.com account.Are you logging in with an iOS homescreen app? You can copy-paste the link from the login email in the login box.Don't have access to the email you signed up with anymore so can't receive login emails?If you do still have access to your Telegram account (and it was connected to the site before and working), you can login with your username on Nomads.com and you'll also get a DM on your Telegram from us with a link to login. Make sure you then change your email to a new one that does work properly, so you can login next time with your email.If you don't have access to the email you signed up with and also not getting Telegram DMs, we can't retrieve your account. You'll need to join again with your new email address. We can not merge old accounts with new ones.

I can't login

The Nomads.com chat is actively moderated to keep it a nice place. Sometimes users are timed out for a few minutes to hours if they break the <a target="" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://ideasandbugs.com/help/articles/5228830-what-are-the-nomadscom-rules">rules</a>.The most common reasons for being timed out are: 1) trying to post self-promotion links/spam 2) trying to DM spam lots of people when you just signed up 3) not following the guidelines 4) being not nice and fighting with peopleThere's a reason other digital nomad communities are predominantly 90% self-promotion spam and self promotion and Nomads.com isn't. But that requires moderation, which is a choice.If you don't like to follow the rules, find another community to participate in.

My chat message was removed and I was timed out, why?

Nope. PayPal's API is still very resource intensive to maintain and there isn't enough demand for Bitcoin payments yet to invest the time and effort to implement it into Nomads.com. You can use a crypto-funded credit card like Coinbase Card though.

Do you accept PayPal or cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin?

We've tried to answer 99.99% of questions in this FAQ.If you have still have a problem we might be able to fix it! Make sure you tell us on the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://ideasandbugs.com/c/nomadscom">ideas and bugs</a> board, so we can fix it and improve Nomads.com!

My question isn't here, help!

What are the Nomads.com rules?

These terms apply to Nomads.com and any other of Nomads.com's sites, apps, communities on any platform, any of its meetups and/or any of its online or offline events or properties.Non-legally binding TL;DR:Nomads.com's sites are crowdsourced and have user-generated content, so don't rely on the data and always double check. We're not liable if you get hurt because of our site, app, data, meetups or anything we offer you. Before working in another country, see if it's legal first (e.g. visas, permits). We're not responsible for that. You allow us to publish the stuff you contribute to this site indefinitely. We need you to set a recent profile photo of your face. We don't allow group photos, drawings, avatars, objects, shirtless, sexual photos or pics that aren't you: only human profile pics. Accounts not following this rule are suspended/deleted. When entering your email during sign up, we may use it to contact you. 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<img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0194a9ee-f42f-7275-978f-0549ddc2ecf6.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left" alt="Nomads.com Logo"><h1 style="text-align: center" id="26xik2k2tx1" data-toc-id="26xik2k2tx1">Our mission is to promote the freedom of global movement enabled by remote work <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://Nomads.com">Nomads.com</a> builds the foundations for people to live anywhere in the world. Millions of people use our software to travel and move to new places and meet people there.</h1>"The rankings of <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://Nomads.com">Nomads.com</a>'s cities are constantly in flux (all the data is refreshed in real-time based on user input)"<img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0194a9ee-f33b-7377-9b96-c2ee12314a6d.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://Nomads.com">Nomads.com</a> ranks destinations that are accommodating to digital nomads, based on factors like cost of living, internet speed and weather;" <img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0194a9ee-f330-7767-9725-384b6a274660.png" data-width="100%" data-align="center">"According to <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://Nomads.com">Nomads.com</a>, a web platform for hypermobile workers, as of December, Lisbon was home to 15,800 digital nomads. The city also appears among the top destinations for nomads, especially women, in the website’s latest “State of Digital Nomads” annual report." <img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0194a9ee-f331-71af-bd2e-597bcbf382a3.png" data-width="100%" data-align="center">"<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://Nomads.com">Nomads.com</a>, a website for travellers, ranks destinations by broadband speed. Lisbon and Canggu in Bali are at the top, while Mexico City and Timișoara, Romania — where tech is booming — make the top 10." <img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0194a9ee-f32e-7af9-b2ed-46c3a03d9032.png" data-width="100%" data-align="center">"(..) started a site called <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://Nomads.com">Nomads.com</a>, a website that crowdsources information to share with fellow nomads." <img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0194a9ee-f333-7f29-bb22-e74dade3c8c7.png" data-width="100%" data-align="center">"A guide to the best cities for digital nomads and perpetual travelers" <img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0194a9ee-f32a-73bb-b438-34cf9d81bf3b.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left">"An incredibly innovative tool for digital nomads (..) indicative of the larger nomadic trend" <img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0194a9ee-f331-7e3e-a3ef-1c2a2778b35d.png" data-width="100%" data-align="center">"<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://Nomads.com">Nomads.com</a>, [the] most successful product to date, was profitable on the first day" <img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0194a9ee-f331-7533-a235-5667b1ab4486.png" data-width="100%" data-align="center">"The best quality of life will be available to the digital nomad, (..) you go to <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://Nomads.com">Nomads.com</a> (..), and you optimize your personal runway" <img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0194a9ee-f32c-765c-b1e4-538552ed965e.png" data-width="100%" data-align="center">"<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://Nomads.com">Nomads.com</a> is a great resource for digital nomads that will give you an up-to-date look at the Wi-Fi situation where you’re going (among many other factors)" <img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0194a9ee-f32b-74f7-88e1-c60c612bbf76.png" data-width="100%" data-align="center"><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="button red reverse link" href="https://nomads.com/assets/nomads-com-press-kit.zip">Download press kit (new)</a>

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Nomads.com's mission is to accelerate the freedom of global movement enabled by remote work.Nomads.com finds you the best places in the world to live, work and travel as a remote worker. Every second, it collects millions of data points on thousands of cities around the world, from cost of living, temperature to safety. With that data, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://Nomads.com">Nomads.com</a> gives you an idea of where it's best for you to go.Nomads.com has much more features than just that though: you can do things like find <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://nomads.com/coworking/chiang-mai">coworking spaces</a> in each city, see <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://nomads.com/weather/amsterdam">how warm it is in a city in a specific month</a>, search for places with <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://nomads.com/climate-finder">specific climates</a>, read <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://nomads.com/reviews/canggu">reviews</a> and see who of <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://Nomads.com">Nomads.com</a>'s members <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://nomads.com/people/canggu">is in a city now</a> or will be there soon.Nomads.com originally started out for digital nomads but as remote work has become more prevalent, it's evolved into a platform for remote workers living anywhere in the world.We have a 50,000+ people member base who <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://nomads.com/community">log their trips</a> to <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://nomads.com/community">meet other people in the same place</a>, and <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://nomads.com/chat">chat everyday on Telegram</a> to ask questions, share information and make friends. Many of them also host and <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://nomads.com/meetups">attend our regular meetups</a> in real life. The goal of Nomads.com's community is to make it less isolating to be a remote worker and since it's a paid membership it offers a way to fund the main site's development of city rankings and data to help people find places to go.

What is Nomads.com

The Nomad Score of cities is based on all the different data points, with highest weight given to cost (should be affordable), current temperatures (should be comfortable), internet speed (should be somewhat fast and usable) and safety (should have low crime). Other indicators are also important like low in racism, gay/LGBTQ+ friendliness, air quality, if it's fun to live and if there's good nightlife.Throughout the day the site keeps updating its data (including temperatures, humidity, internet speeds, exchange rates etc.) which means that at any moment you'll see the best cities recommended to you. Scores are re-generated every 10 minutes.The ranking shows considerable changes throughout the seasons. In the summer, places in the US and Europe start moving up while (like Berlin) in the winter Asia (like Thailand) and South America (like Medellin) do very well.

What is the Nomad Score?

In the last year 2,000,000+ people have used <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://Nomads.com">Nomads.com</a> to find <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://nomads.com/best-places-for-digital-nomads">1,377 cities</a> in <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://nomads.com/countries">190+ countries</a> to live and work. Since its launch in 2014, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://Nomads.com">Nomads.com</a> has received 151,000,000+ visits.

It started out as a crowdsourced spreadsheet:<img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0194a9f1-7fab-7c97-95c4-97463a095496.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left">That spreadsheet held about 25 cities. That was a great start, but crowdsourced data has by nature challenges with consistency. For example, some people have a more expensive taste than others and will tell you the rent in a city is higher than the actual average.To mitigate this, we've since switched to public data sets by the UN, WHO, IMF, World Bank for things like demographic, crime, safety and healthcare information, as well as public APIs for things like weather, air quality and traffic density. All data is processed and normalized constantly. Practically that means there might be 42 different samples for air quality in Amsterdam, and 9 different internet speed measurements for Tokyo. Our robots will remove outliers, discount older values and calculate median values that have the highest probability of being accurate when you arrive in a place. The more data (and thus samples) is inserted into the site, the more accurate the overall data becomes.

What is the source of your data?

How much it costs to live in a place varies by person. For cost data, our data is within the range of 90% of other cost of living sites. Ratings about cities can be especially subjective. Safety level is a particular datapoint that's highly discussed. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://Nomads.com">Nomads.com</a> uses the most recently available crime statistics as well as armed conflict and political stability data for each place. As with any website with lots of data about lots of cities and countries all around the world, there will always be data points that are not accurate. Even more, many people have a tendency to be overly positive and patriotic about their own city or country, which might not strike with the reality if compared to other places.We highly suggest to always double check data you find here with other sites before you go travel, to be sure. The nature of data is that the more sources you check, the more broad and accurate idea you get of the reality. Even then, keep in mind that how a place feels to you when you're there can be completely different than what any site, person or app tells you.There isn't a site with data about destinations to travel that will ever be fully accurate. Data like this is by nature dynamic and subjective.

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What is US AQI?

<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://Nomads.com">Nomads.com</a> lets its vistors and members <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://nomads.com/photos">vote for the best photos</a> for a city. We automatically download new photos from Unsplash and Wikipedia by searching for the city, state and country name. Because the robots don't know which photos are right or which one are the best, we let you vote on it.In most cases this works but sometimes a photo is wrong. You can help fix this by voting for the right photo: click on a city and go to the Photos tab. Then click on the photo you like most and think is the most accurate depiction of a city.Votes are counted daily and then new photos are downloaded. We cache them for 7 days to a month so it might take a week or more for photos to be replaced! Be patient.

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Nomads.com does not add coworking spaces. We have partnerships with sites indexing coworking spaces such as <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://Coworker.com">Coworker.com</a>. Add your space on there, and it'll be indexed by us and show up on <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://Nomads.com">Nomads.com</a>. Be patient, because it might take a few weeks!

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It goes a long way back. To start in 2009, when I was studying in Amsterdam I had the opportunity to study abroad. I studied and lived in Korea with my two Dutch friends, <a target="" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://x.com/hassejansen">Hasse</a> and Sam. Imagine never having been outside of Europe before and being dropped in the middle of nowhere in Seoul and having to figure things out. It was exciting and life changing. Back then I made a <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://youtube.com/pandadnb">YouTube channel</a> for electronic music, and YouTube paid me a few hundred dollars for the ads it ran on it. I knew I had to update my channel when I'd be in Korea, or it would die out. So I bought a small laptop that could barely render videos, and managed to keep my channel up to date and upload a new video every week. That was the first moment I was essentially working remotely away from home and saw it might work.In 2012, I had almost graduated university with a Master's degree in Entrepreneurship. I just needed to write my master's thesis. Me and my friend Jim went to <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://nomads.com/san-francisco">San Francisco</a> and couchsurfed for months while we both finished off our thesis. I had rented out my room in Amsterdam, so I had to pack my stuff in boxes. When I came back from San Francisco, I hardly unpacked anything. And <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://levels.io/i-love-minimalist-living/">I realized I didn't need most of my material stuff</a> and started reducing my possessions to what could fit in a backpack.That same year, after graduating university, I went traveling again and I visited <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://nomads.com/saint-petersburg">Saint Petersburg</a> in Russia and was there for weeks, and on my laptop I worked on my <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://youtube.com/pandadnb">YouTube channel</a> and coding side projects. Those weeks I realized I didn't really need to be home in Amsterdam, but could pretty much go anywhere, as long as I had income.In 2013, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://levels.io/reset-your-life/">I did just that</a>. I bought a MacBook and a backpack, packed my stuff, moved out and started traveling. I now had serious ad income from my <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://youtube.com/pandadnb">YouTube channel</a>, about $2,000 to $6,000/mo, so I could live from that. My first trip was almost a year long and I lived in <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://nomads.com/bangkok">Bangkok</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://nomads.com/chiang-mai">Chiang Mai</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://nomads.com/ko-samui">Ko Samui</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://nomads.com/ho-chi-minh-city">Ho Chi Minh City</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://nomads.com/singapore">Singapore</a> and <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://nomads.com/hong-kong">Hong Kong</a>. It was a life changing year but mostly I discovered that it could potentially work, and probably for way more people than just me. Back then there were maybe 20 to 40 nomads in the hotspot of Chiang Mai. And outside of that, hardly anybody. Nomadism was an unknown micro niche with no real traction.The first signal I was on to something, was that my super unknown travel blog, which I wrote mostly to keep my mom updated, started getting traction on Hacker News. At the end of 2013, I wrote a <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://levels.io/bootstrapping-startup-thailand/">recap of my trip from the startup angle</a>, and it went to the front page of Hacker News. That was new because before that digital nomadism wasn't popular so much under techies especially not on <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://news.ycombinator.com/">Hacker News</a>.After half a year in the Netherlands, I went on my second trip, I visited <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://nomads.com/ubud-bali">Ubud in Bali</a> and there I wondered what more places would be suitable to live and work for people like me, and a site like that would probably make more people realize what I did, that you can probably work from anywhere.I knew I needed fast internet, nice weather and low cost of living. So I made <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://levels.io/product-hunt-hacker-news-number-one/">a spreadsheet</a>, shared it on Twitter and people helped fill it in:<div class="iframe-wrapper"><iframe src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=nomadlist&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;features=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%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=481228588390547456&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fnomads.com%2Ffaq&amp;sessionId=0fd061385973725e9fb60072341829a1ce4c89cd&amp;siteScreenName=nomadlist&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&amp;width=550px" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true" class=""></iframe></div>That became the basis for this site:<img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0194a9f3-8134-7d24-a874-d6e6c869c02a.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left">It went straight to the top of <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8107222">Hacker News</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://www.producthunt.com/posts/nomad-list">Product Hunt</a> and hit Reddit's frontpage:<div class="iframe-wrapper"><iframe src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=nomadlist&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-2&amp;features=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%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=610602321274388480&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fnomads.com%2Ffaq&amp;sessionId=0fd061385973725e9fb60072341829a1ce4c89cd&amp;siteScreenName=nomadlist&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&amp;width=550px" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true" class=""></iframe></div>Since then it's been a crazy ride trying to keep up, both <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://levels.io/love-anxiety-and-startups/">personally too</a> and as a business. I used that early momentum to launch lots of things that I hoped would create something sustainable. I started organizing <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://nomads.com/meetups">meetups</a>, launched a jobs page for nomads called Nomad Jobs which later spun off <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://Nomads.com">Nomads.com</a> as its own business called <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://remoteok.com/">Remote OK</a>, I created a <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://nomads.com/forum">Q&amp;A forum</a> and a <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://nomads.com/chat">Telegram chat group</a> with thousands of people socializing on it, as well as a <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://nomads.com/community">social network based on people's trips, and a </a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://nomads.com/dating">dating app</a> for remote workers.The hard work has paid off and <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://Nomads.com">Nomads.com</a> has since <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://nomads.com/faq#traffic">received 151,670,660 visits</a>, and gets 432,283 monthly visits. It's become the dominant way for remote workers and nomads to find places to live and work and is the most popular site for digital nomads in the world.

How did Nomads.com get started?

Yes, we had it but closed it in 2016 after 6 clones of <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://Nomads.com">Nomads.com</a> showed up using our data on Product Hunt, Hacker News and in the iOS App Store and Google Play Store. It caused more trouble than it did good, so it's permanently closed.The other reason we can't have an API anymore is that a lot of the data we use on <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://Nomads.com">Nomads.com</a> is licensed (and paid for) from other APIs (e.g. weather, climate data, traffic data) which we are not allowed to re-distribute.

Is there a Nomads.com API?

No, it's not and you should consider it as a public space. Only your direct messages are private and nobody can read them, not even admins. But messages in all channels are public. Most recent messages are shown on <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://Nomads.com">Nomads.com</a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://nomads.com/telegram"> Chat</a> to non-members too.The reason is that we don't want to create an illusion of privacy in the chat. There's thousands people on the Telegram. Any of those people may have created a script/robot that just logs and saves every message anyone posts anyway. There's no way for us to stop that. Anyone can pay the membership fee and join and within 5 minutes be in the chat and read your messages.That's why you should consider it as a public space. If you'd like to talk in private, switch to DM or to external chat apps.

Is the Nomads.com chat community private?

Nomads.com mostly makes money from membership fees to <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://nomads.com/?join=nomadscom">our website</a> and companies advertising.

How does Nomads.com make money?

Remember all those cool startups you used that were free but then they were acquired, shut down and now don't exist anymore? It's because free apps don't make money, and therefore can't survive:<blockquote>Someone builds a cool, free product, it gets popular, and that popularity attracts a buyer. The new owner shuts the product down and the founders issue a glowing press release about how excited they are about synergies going forward. They are never heard from again.Whether or not this is done in good faith, in practice this kind of 'exit event' is a pump-and-dump scheme. The very popularity that attracts a buyer also makes the project financially unsustainable. The owners cash out, the acquirer gets some good engineers, and the users get screwed.To avoid this problem, avoid mom-and-pop projects that don't take your money! You might call this the anti-free-software movement.If every additional user is putting money in the developers' pockets, then you're less likely to see the site disappear overnight. If every new user is costing the developers money, and the site is really taking off, then get ready to read about those synergies.To illustrate, we have prepared this handy chart:<table style="minWidth: 75px"><colgroup><col><col><col></colgroup><tbody><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1"></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1"></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">FreePaid</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: geometricprecision; outline: 0px;">Stagnant</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: geometricprecision; outline: 0px; background: rgb(255, 238, 238); ;">losing money</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: geometricprecision; outline: 0px; background: rgb(238, 255, 238); ;">making money</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: geometricprecision; outline: 0px;">Growing</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: geometricprecision; outline: 0px; background: rgb(255, 204, 204); ;">losing more money</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: geometricprecision; outline: 0px; background: rgb(204, 255, 204); ;">making more money</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: geometricprecision; outline: 0px;">Exploding</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: geometricprecision; outline: 0px; background: rgb(255, 170, 170); ;">losing lots of money</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: geometricprecision; outline: 0px; background: rgb(170, 255, 170); ;">making lots of money</td></tr></tbody></table> What if a little site you love doesn't have a business model? Yell at the developers! Explain that you are tired of good projects folding and are willing to pay cash American dollar to prevent that from happening. It doesn't take prohibitive per-user revenue to put a project in the black. It just requires a number greater than zero.I love free software and could not have built my site without it. But free web services are not like free software. If your free software project suddenly gets popular, you gain resources: testers, developers and people willing to pitch in. If your free website takes off, you lose resources. Your time is spent firefighting and your money all goes to the nice people at Linode.So stop getting caught off guard when your favorite project sells out! “They were getting so popular, why did they have to shut it down?” Because it's hard to resist a big payday when you are rapidly heading into debt. And because it's culturally acceptable to leave your user base high and dry if you get a good offer, citing self-inflicted financial hardship.Like a service? Make them charge you or show you ads. If they won't do it, clone them and do it yourself. Soon you'll be the only game in town!</blockquote>— <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://blog.pinboard.in/2011/12/don_t_be_a_free_user/">Maciej</a> from Pinboard.So if you want <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://Nomads.com">Nomads.com</a> to survive, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://nomads.com/?join=nomads">please support it and become a paid member</a>.<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://Nomads.com">Nomads.com</a> is NOT a venture capital funded startup. It's bootstrapped! That means we don't have any external funding on purpose. The problem with so many venture-capital funded startups is that their investors force them to grow fast in user base without making any money in the first few years, to then sell out to BigCo (e.g. Google, Facebook) for tens of millions or billions of dollars, then write a blog post about <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/">their incredible journey</a>, then either shut the site down, or fuck over their users by selling their user data.That sucks, right? We don't get that. We don't like that. And we don't want to do that.So we'd rather go for higher odds of success, try to make money on day one, and not make a billion dollars but just make good money to live off. Maybe we'd actually get acquired later too. But it'd have to be good for the users in the first place. And there shouldn't be the extreme high growth trajectory which will then F over our customers.The challenge of going this way is that we can't offer everything for free, like Facebook or Google or any other funded startup does. We have to get money somehow because we need to pay for our costs. We could make money in sneaky ways like selling your user data, but that'd suck and honestly it wouldn't make that much money at this scale. So the fastest way is simply asking you, as a user of this site, for money. That means we can pay our server bills, hire developers and improve <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://Nomads.com">Nomads.com</a> every day.If you like what we do, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://nomads.com/?join=nomads">please support this site and become a paid member</a>.

Why isn't Nomads.com free?

A good full stack developer is paid $150,000+. A normal VC funded startup probably has 5 engineers. That's $750,000/y. Add some marketing people and you're close to $1,000,000/y in labor costs.Hosting and bandwidth is relatively cheap but still gets to $12,000/year including backup storage and backup servers. To make the site fast we pay $48,000/year to Cloudflare. You need regular security people to check your server and avoid it getting hacked, which is another $24,000/year. Using Mapbox's APIs for geocoding and showing maps is not free and costs about $6,000/year for our usage. Using email APIs for sending emails is not free and costs about $12,000/year for our usage. We pay $50,000/year for APIs to collect data about places around the world. For example, the daily weather conditions, air quality and internet speeds in thousands of cities.That means <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://Nomads.com">Nomads.com</a> would not be able to exist if it was a regular startup. It'd lose money.

How much does it cost to run Nomads.com?

It's written in HTML, CSS, JS with jQuery for the frontend and PHP with SQLite as db for backend. It's hosted on a single VPS running Ubuntu with NGINX. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://Nomads.com">Nomads.com</a> doesn't use any frameworks except for jQuery. Every part of the site is manually built.

What is the tech stack behind Nomads.com?

Sure! You can use any data on our site and make screenshots of Nomads.com as long as you reference us as "Nomads.com" and use our logo and link back on every data mention! Thanks :)

I'm writing an article about Nomads.com, can we use your data?

We can do custom partnerships, like sponsorships and integrations into the site if they match our brand. Think insurance for remote workers, or coliving platforms. These start at $20,000/month and reach 432,283 monthly impressions. <a target="" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://x.com/levelsio">Publicly tweet @levelsio</a> if you're interested. If you're below this budget, please don't waste your own time and try later when you are.

How can I advertise, my product, service or myself on Nomads.com?

Go <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://nomads.com/meetups">here</a> and click Host A Meetup! If enough people RSVP, we'll make it happen.

How can I host a Nomads.com meetup?

We're not taking interviews to instead focus on making <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://Nomads.com">Nomads.com</a> better every day! We've tried to answer most questions on this page.

How can I interview someone from Nomads.com?

🌎 Nomads.com - Digital nomads

What's the history of digital nomads?

Digital nomads, or location independent remote workers, are people who live at least part of the year away from their home country while working remotely as an employee for their employer, as a contractor for companies or if they have their own business for themselves.The classic stereotype of digital nomads is that they move fast from place to place every week or few weeks, while working on their laptop on a beach. Not much of that is true anymore in 2025: most people on <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://Nomads.com">Nomads.com</a> move only every 4 to 6 months, to the same handful of places, work from coworking spaces or cafes and have close ties to the places they visit and regularly come back to to meet their friends from all over the world. And hardly anybody works from the beach: too much sand, and too much sun glare on your screen.Just like the traditional nomadic tribes which <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomad">"follow a fixed annual or seasonal pattern of movements and settlements"</a>, remote working travelers do the same. Many like to stay in climates around 23°C/74°F, and will move based on the seasons.The term "digital nomad" has been used and abused over the last decades, including in shady online courses and get rich quick schemes, and for that reason many remote workers who travel are wary of using that term to describe themselves. Unfortunately the alternative terms haven't taken off yet. The faster that remote work becomes mainstream, the faster the term digital nomad will go out of fashion and we'll see it as normal that people work from different countries based on their personal preferences in living.

What is a digital nomad?

There are currently 10 million to 100 million digital nomads in the world in 2025. This is based on the below assumptions (last updated: 2025-01-29)It's hard to estimate how many digital nomads exist, but let's try with some live data from this site (this paragraph is live updated based on <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://Nomads.com">Nomads.com</a> data). To do this we have to make some assumptions though, so take this with a grain of salt.In the last year, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://Nomads.com">Nomads.com</a> got 5,187,396 visits. About 20% of those visits are unique users, or 1,037,479 users. Not everyone who visits is already a nomad, probably most are wanna be nomads: but let's assume 25% are nomads or 259,370 people. If we assume <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://Nomads.com">Nomads.com</a> captures 10% of the entire demographic of digital nomads in a year (it's uncommon for companies to capture double digit amounts of a market), that'd mean there's 2,593,698 digital nomads.<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://Nomads.com">Nomads.com</a> mostly has an English-speaking Western audience though, which is only 20% of the world. Then again, most of the world is probably not in a position to go work remotely and travel (yet) due to differences in income. If we assume 40% of the world is though (or double the English speaking population), that means we can count 5,187,396 digital nomads.That's only self-described digital nomads though. If we make the definition broader to people who work remotely at least part of the year in a country different than their home country the number might double to 10,374,792 or triple to 15,562,188 digital nomads in the entire world.There's actual research that has surveyed this too. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://www.mbopartners.com/state-of-independence/research-trends-digital-nomads/">MBO Partners</a> concluded "4.8 million independent workers currently describe themselves as digital nomads [in the United States]". The U.S. has a population of ~330 million people. That means 1.5% self-describes as a digital nomad. If we use that percentage for the entire world, we get ~100 million digital nomads. But most of the world isn't as developed as the U.S. Even if we only add Europe: 741 million people * 1.5% = ~10 million digital nomads. Adding back U.S. to that gets us to close to ~15 million digital nomads. MBO's research is within the range of 10 million - 100 million above.Let's try one more calculation: business travelers. The Business Travel Association reports that in the U.S. alone there are <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://www.creditdonkey.com/business-travel-statistics.html">405 million business trips</a> taken per year with the average traveler taking 12-14 trips. That means there's about 30 million business travelers in the U.S. It is stated in Gallup’s <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://www.gallup.com/workplace/238085/state-american-workplace-report-2017.aspx">State of the American Workplace Report</a> that 43% of U.S. employees work remotely at least some of the time. If we take 30 million business travelers * 43% working remotely at least some of the time = 12.9 million remote working business travelers. If we add the same % to Europe, that's ~42 million people traveling while working remotely in the U.S. and EU. The estimate based on business traveler and remote work statistics is again within the range of 10 million - 100 million above.If we check Facebook and search for "digital nomads", the biggest group is <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/DigitalNomadsAroundTheWorld/">Digital Nomads Around the World</a> which has ~200,000 members at time of writing. Let's say that group captures 10% of digital nomads and there's 2,000,000 nomads there. We then only have the predominantly English-speaking Western audience though, which again is only 20% of the world. If we add the rest of the world, that'd be a multiple of this, e.g. 10 million digital nomads. Which is on the lower end 10 million to 100 million but still in the millions.If we do the same for Reddit, the main subreddit for digital nomads is <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://old.reddit.com/r/digitalnomad/">/r/digitalnomad</a> with over 2,000,000 subscribers. Probably most are wanna be nomads: but let's assume 25% are nomads, that's 500,000 people. If that group captures 10% of digital nomads (not everybody uses Reddit, nor does everybody who is a nomad subscribes to this subreddit), then there's 5 million nomads out there. Since Reddit too is mostly an English-speaking Western audience (e.g. 20% of the world) the real number is a multiple of 5 million. That's on the lower end of the 10 million to 100 million nomads range.The 10 million to 100 million range with current growth is about in line with the prediction that there will be one billion digital nomads by 2035: <div class="iframe-wrapper"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4IYOZ6H0UNk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true" class="w-full shadow aspect-video rounded-xl" data-youtube-video=""></iframe></div><h2 id="imwxdkrzk5q" data-toc-id="imwxdkrzk5q"></h2>

How many digital nomads are there in the world?

The average time a <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://Nomads.com">Nomads.com</a> member stays in one location is currently 68 days or about 2.2 months (this is pulled live from the trips database). Also the longer people are a member/nomad, the longer their trips become and the more they slow down.One of the biggest misconceptions is that nomads move around every two weeks to their next spot while roaming around the world romantically. Many try to do that when they just start out and are super excited to see the world. However, moving around so fast gets physically and mentally challenging quickly.Your identity is derived from your environment. If your environment is constantly in flux, you'll be constantly in flux. That's exciting for a while, but then gets tiring and many travelers burn out. Instead, most nomads stay in places for many months and will have a few favorite hubs they rotate around. That also means they can build up a somewhat stable group of friends in those spots.This duration is a natural limitation of visas. Most nomads travel on tourist visas which are limited to 30, 60 or 90 days. If visa restrictions were minimized, many would probably start to stay in places for 6 months and move with the seasons.

How fast do digital nomads travel?

About half of <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://Nomads.com">Nomads.com</a>'s visitors are 25 to 34 year olds. The second biggest group is 18 to 24 year olds. And third is 35 to 44 year olds. From there on it decreases in traffic the older people get:<table style="minWidth: 75px"><colgroup><col><col><col></colgroup><tbody><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: geometricprecision; outline: 0px; font-weight: bold;">18-24 years old</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: geometricprecision; outline: 0px;">20%</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: geometricprecision; outline: 0px;">|||||||||||||||||</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: geometricprecision; outline: 0px; font-weight: bold;">25-34 years old</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: geometricprecision; outline: 0px;">50%</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: geometricprecision; outline: 0px;">||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: geometricprecision; outline: 0px; font-weight: bold;">35-44 years old</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: geometricprecision; outline: 0px;">17%</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: geometricprecision; outline: 0px;">|||||||||||||</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: geometricprecision; outline: 0px; font-weight: bold;">45-54 years old</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: geometricprecision; outline: 0px;">7%</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: geometricprecision; outline: 0px;">||||</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: geometricprecision; outline: 0px; font-weight: bold;">55-64 years old</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: geometricprecision; outline: 0px;">4%</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: geometricprecision; outline: 0px;">|||</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: geometricprecision; outline: 0px; font-weight: bold;">65+ years old</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: geometricprecision; outline: 0px;">2%</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: geometricprecision; outline: 0px;">||</td></tr></tbody></table>See more live stats at <a target="" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://nomads.com/digital-nomad-statistics#age">nomads.com/digital-nomad-statistics</a>We do not have enough age data from our members as we only recently started collecting. But we know there are significant outliers though in the member base. A lot of them are indeed in the typical 25 to 34 year old age group. But we have a lot of "empty nesters" who when their kids left the house decided to sell everything and travel perpetually. And we can only see this group growing in the future. Also the 35 to 44 year olds group will be growing since the digital nomads that started out 10 years ago as 25 year olds, are now reaching this age group. Many of them settle down in multiple places, but also many of them keep traveling like nomads, perhaps slowing down.Especially in this scene, age seems to be much less important than people's mindset and at what stage they are in their life. Are they traveling while studying (on hold)? Are they working on a remote career? Building a business? Retired? Not many really care about your age.

How old are digital nomads?

Generally they live in places which are affordable, with warmer climates, and lots of other remote workers. Right now in January of 2025 the most popular places for digital nomads are <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://nomads.com/bangkok">Bangkok</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://nomads.com/chiang-mai">Chiang Mai</a> and <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://nomads.com/buenos-aires">Buenos Aires</a>.Depending on how long they stay, their budget and affordability of housing in a place, they can live in hostels, hotels, Airbnbs, short-term apartments and if they stay for longer traditional long-term rentals. Some nomads own housing in different countries to stay there, and rent it out when they're not there.The areas they stay are usually not the typical tourist neighborhoods. Instead, because nomads stay longer in a place, they want to live in areas that are somewhat local but international which means usually the areas a little bit out of the center, away from tourists but near to a healthy mix of locals, expats and nomads. Important for the area is that it has lots of facilities like cafes, restaurants, hotels/Airbnbs, and for many also gyms.To see the full listing of current cities browse <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://nomads.com/">the most popular places to live and work remotely for digital nomads</a> on the frontpage of <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://Nomads.com">Nomads.com</a>.

Where do digital nomads live?

Good question! Primarily, you need a remote job, be a freelancer with remote clients or have your own business you can do online. If you have that, simply book a flight, pack up and go!What you don't want to do is spend money on courses, seminars, conferences that teach you how to become a digital nomad. Things like re-selling products and having them shipped by other companies or warehouses to customers with you being in the middle, those are mostly scams. There's no magic secret to becoming a digital nomad: you need money coming in to pay your food and bills, put your stuff in a backpack, and fly somewhere. You also don't need to be a member of <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://Nomads.com">Nomads.com</a> to become a digital nomad. Just do it!

How do you become a digital nomad?

While most of the internet describes the amazing freedom of a location independent life where you can work from anywhere, go anywhere and live anywhere, and it is pretty nice, like anything there's downsides to it too:One downside is that with all the freedom comes analysis parallysis. If you can go anywhere, where do you go? If you can live any type of life, which one do you choose? You can get parallyzed and just not make any life decision whatsoever. Side note to that is that maybe it's not necessary to make a choice, and a life is better lead by steering and readjusting while your living it vs. making decisions that might make you permanently stuck.Another often discussed downside, especially by traditional people, is the lack of building up roots. If a person moves around a lot, it'll be hard for them to build up long term friendships in a specific place. And that can create isolation too once the novelty of a new place wears off. That's why most people start off traveling fast and then slow down to live in a few or a single place away from home. Because it gives them a chance to build up some roots. Then again, loneliness and isolation is a general disease of our time even for people who live in their home country in cities.While you're on the other side of the world building up a new life away from your home country, it's probably your parents still live at home. And as your parents get older, the risk that they'll have some kind of ailment increases. You'll probably want to spend time with your parents before they pass on and that gets harder being away from home. On the other hand, many people that do live close to their parents hardly visit, and having the freedom of being anywhere, means you can also spend long stretches of time close to your parents, whenever you want.It'd be silly if there were no downsides and it's up to you as a person to choose a life that fits your personality best and makes you satisfied.

How do you survive as a digital nomad?

I made a site called <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://remoteok.com/">Remote OK</a> that shows all remote jobs available today. Applying to jobs can be challenging, there might be thousands of people applying for a job with 1 position. Remote working is a perk in a job, many people want it, few still get it unfortunately! The best advice is, get highly skilled at what you do until you're hired.

What are the best digital nomad jobs?

If you're already a freelancer, talk to your current clients and see how they feel about you working remotely for them. Consider timezone differences and not being able to physically meet up. Many clients are actually fine with this, and you might even be able to offer a discount to them for giving you this freedom! The most common freelance industries for digital nomads are web development, app development, design and virtual assistants.

How do I become a freelancer with remote clients?

How do I start my own business to work remotely?

One of the most controversial questions is hard to answer and that's why it's so controversial. Firstly, this isn't legal advice.Remote work is such a recent and new technological development and governments are still lagging behind and figuring out how to deal with it. It's still quite a small niche compared to the overall population: Berlin might have thousands of nomads, but it also has close to 4 million people, so it's ~0.1% of the population.Generally nobody is allowed to work in any country on a tourist visa, that's why there's work visas/permits. But this law is based on old times where work happened in offices and factories. What if an American working for a U.S. startup checks and answers their work email in a Berlin hotel while visiting on a tourist visa? That'd constitute work in official legal terms, but should that be illegal? Probably not.Work permits are there to protect the local population from having anyone come to the country and compete with them on getting jobs. This makes perfect sense as you don't want the whole world to just come fly to your country and start working and pushing wages down for locals. However, 99% or more of remote workers visiting a country don't compete with locals on jobs. They're not going to restaurant kitchens to cook, instead they'll be in Berlin coding for startups in San Francisco which has customers from all over the world. If anything, governments would want to promote that as it means more consumer spending than tourists, and socializing with locals might mean technological, knowledge and cultural exchange, not at all increased competition to local workers.However, that doesn't mean it's legal. Most countries have not spoken out about the legality of remote workers visiting their country and working without a work permit, and the ones who have have mostly made comments that it's okay if it's not work competing with locals, but those aren't official declarations. If you're strict, you can say it's illegal. If you're less strict, you can say it's a legal gray area due to laws lagging behind the reality of remote work. Personally, we believe the last. There haven't been any known cases of people getting arrested in foreign countries for working remotely, yet. In this case, Europeans have it easy, they can legally work anywhere in the European Union without any trouble.It's therefore completely up to you and your risk assessment to choose what to do. Getting a work permit is possible in many countries, although it takes a lot of effort, tax constructions and lawyer fees, and it implies you're going to stay there for many years, which many remote workers aren't sure of. That makes it complicated.

Do digital nomads need work visas?

Firstly, a required disclaimer: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://Nomads.com">Nomads.com</a> does not provide tax, legal or accounting advice. This material has been prepared for informational purposes only, and is not intended to provide, and should not be relied on for, tax, legal or accounting advice. You should consult your own tax, legal and accounting advisors before engaging in any transaction.The reality of tax as a digital nomad is complicated. It's a gray area because the laws haven't been updated yet to fit this new reality. There's some general guidelines that are relevant in most (developed) countries.Firstly, if you're American, you're pretty much f'd because the U.S. government will tax you regardless of where you live (!). Then again their Navy Seals will save you if you get taken hostage anywhere, many can't say the same.If you're from developed countries, you're usually a tax resident in a country if you live there for 183 days. Although some countries like Taiwan make it shorter at 90 days already.Important: it's up to your national taxation authority (e.g. IRS) to make the judgement if you're a taxable resident or not. They will judge it based on where you're registered as a resident, how many days you are physically in the country, where do you rent/own a house, where do you work, where do you spend your money, where do you have bank accounts and assets, sometimes even where your friends and family are located. This complicates things.There's more odd laws that make it more complicated. The idea that you can just deregister in your country as a resident, fly to the other side of the world and stop paying tax is mostly incorrect. Many developed countries have a so-called tax residency fallback law, which means if you're not a resident elsewhere, you immediately for tax purposes are a taxable resident in the country of your citizenship, or sometimes the last country you were a resident. This means a German citizen who becomes a non-resident, travels around the world to work remotely, is never a resident anywhere, then comes back after 7 years, can potentially be retro-actively taxed for the years he was away for his worldwide income. We know cases where this happened.If you don't want to pay tax in your home country, you literally need to move quite permanently to another country, become a resident there, rent or buy a house there, and actually live there 183 days per year. And preferably, get rid of all assets in your home country, not take on clients in your home country, pretty much cut ties with your home country. Intense, right? You can visit your home country, but you will not even for a second want to consider opening your laptop there and work, because that might make you a tax resident there again. You can visit and have a coffee. That's about it.Please note international tax law is one of the most confusing topics. The internet has thousands of websites that act like they have any idea what's going on, but since you're talking about 187 nationalities moving through 187 countries, there's so many intricacies that it's impossible to get it completely right for even the most advanced tax lawyers. International tax law is simply a gray area too.So what should you do? Realistically, if you're planning to "go nomad" for awhile, stay a resident in your home country (maybe register at your parents house), if you have a company keep it in your home country and pay tax in your home country, as you did before. Your home country keeps receiving its tax and you remain a resident and it probably doesn't mind. What about the countries you're visiting? Again a gray area. Generally if you're not competing with local companies or local people, not hiring local people, not working for local companies in the country you're visiting, you're okay. I'm not saying you're completely legal. But the laws surrounding work permits in countries are generally made to protect local workers and companies. If you're French and your French company has French customers and French employees and you work from another country, it's hard for that country to argue you're competing with companies or the labor market in the country you're visiting.We would suggest consulting an international tax lawyer. But we have to be real here. Right now, they're simply unaffordable. The international tax lawyers that actually know what they're talking about are companies like EY, KPMG, Deloitte etc. They won't advise people making $25,000/year. They advise you when you make $1,000,000/year and they'll charge a lot. But you'll be in the clear. But that's completely unattainable for most people. The international tax lawyers under this amount are simply not good enough. So to be radically honest, international tax for nomads is now a legal minefield. Tread carefully.

Do digital nomads pay tax?

📸 Photo AI

Yes, Photo AI has a dedicated feature to create AI influencers from scratch now!<img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0194f14e-2233-73af-b9d5-2518178b4855.jpg" data-width="100%" data-align="left">The AI influencer above was created with Photo AI in less than 30 secondsAI influencer: 25-year old Spanish model Erica with brown eyes and straightened long blonde hairPrompt: “front view of model wearing a strapless black top and a delicate necklace. the model is smiling and positioned in front of a lush green bush adorned with red and white flowers. in the background, there is a lit-up eiffel tower and a classic lamp post against a clear evening sky.”<h1 id="i76z5mxttim" data-toc-id="i76z5mxttim">Create your first AI influencer</h1>Simply login to Photo AI and in the sidebar scroll down to [ Create new AI model ] and select [ Create a new AI influencer ].Instead of uploading photos like you’d normally do to create an AI model, it will now ask you to design your AI influencer from scratch.<video src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0194f0c2-8fa9-7394-92b4-0494a5e4034f.mp4" data-width="100%" data-align="left"></video>While designing your AI influencer you will see a quick preview of how they will look so you can adjust accordingly. The preview is low quality (but quick) and your final AI influencer will look much better of course:<video src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0194f0c4-31c6-70ca-9f8f-08946fcaa7e2.mp4" data-width="100%" data-align="left"></video>Creating an AI influencer is fast and within half a minute it’ll be done and Photo AI will have created some sample photos like it does for every model, like headshots and Instagram photos like.Once created, you can take photos, generate videos, and even make your AI influencer talk, which gives you a lot of opportunities to create viral content for your AI influencer. And you might be able to monetize that too on social media platforms.AI influencers can be monetized through product placements or selling their content directly.AI influencers are quite a recent development but they already make money and it doesn’t look like it’ll stop to grow as a new industry soon. For example, Spanish AI influencer Lil Miquela makes $10 million per year, German AI fashion model Noonoouri makes $500,000 per year, and South African AI supermodel Shudu makes $2,000 per sponsored post.<img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0194ec2a-fd5d-785f-be0c-24d8ad5dd8ab.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left">

How to create AI influencers with Photo AI?

You can now create talking AI videos with Photo AI.<img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0194ecff-6fc3-7ca0-bf2d-f031752d36ed.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left">You first take an AI photo and then if you like the look of one, hover over the photo and tap [ Make video ]. It will then process for a few minutes and turn your AI photo into a lifelike moving AI video, like below.Tip: if you want to make your video look sharper, first [ Upscale ] it before making a video. <video src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0194ed00-9118-70bc-8e40-fbf347aa6d28.mp4" data-width="100%" data-align="left"></video>You can try a few times, and then when you have a video that you like the look of, again hover over it and tap [ Make talking video ].A popup will show up to enter the script you want your AI model to speak.<img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0194ed02-8beb-7e24-b813-91c86309f444.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left">It will then start processing and after a few minutes, your talking AI video will show up in your gallery like this:<video src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0194ed05-e3ea-7d65-8ace-3a87a010c760.mp4" data-width="100%" data-align="left"></video>

How to create talking AI videos with Photo AI?

You can actually create pretty good AI photos of you and your gf/bf together now with Photo AI.<img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0194a924-3eba-7774-8464-54fa7c1fd99e.jpg" data-width="100%" data-align="left" alt="Image">Make sure you follow these steps to get the best results:In Photo AI, go to [ Create new AI model ], then under [ Type ] select Couple, so you create a model of both of you.⚠️ Then when uploading photos, make sure EVERY PHOTO has both of you in it, so the AI learns both of you! Just uploading separate photos of both you and the other person will NOT work because it'll think you're training a MIX of both of you. You’ll get a person that looks like both of you instead of couple photos.You want it to understand you're training BOTH of you in ONE photo as a couple photo! So only include those photos where both of you are in it. Even better if you’re both in same position (left or right) but I’ve tried without and it worked too.When it's done training, under Packs -&gt; you can try running the Valentine's Day pack and you get something like the photo above. Be sure to upscale your favorite photos for crispier pics after by hovering over and clicking [ Upscale ].You can also create REGULAR non-Valentine couple photos with each other, if you find V-Day to cheesy 😀

How to create couple photos (like you and your boyfriend or girlfriend together)

Photo AI now lets you take batch photos by providing a list of prompts. This lets you quickly take hundreds or thousands of photos for each of your models.Batch photo taking will go over each prompt, make the selected amount of photos (like 1, 2, 4, 8, or 16 or 32) for each prompt, and do the next prompt.Batch photos is only supported on the Premium and Ultra plan.To start a batch job, select your AI model, and then paste a list of prompts separated by ||| into the prompt box. It’s important you use ||| to separate them or it will not know you want do a batch job. Make sure each prompt contains the word “model” to reference you AI model.<img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/019500c1-34f2-7aa1-89c9-33e35f8ca6bf.jpg" data-width="100%" data-align="left">When you press [ Take photos ] it will show a popup and calculate the total photo count, you can still cancel here, but if you want to continue press [ OK ]:<img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/019500c3-7aa0-7389-b51a-651277b0e926.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left">Photo AI will then start taking photos for each prompt:<img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/019500c4-504d-7ff7-9c0d-5f1fcc84c2ae.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left">After it’s done, you’ll see your photos. Photo AI will return your batch prompt to the prompt box so you can run it again if you like:<img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/019500c5-5f7d-74bd-996c-c06a3780e5bd.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left">

How to take a batch of photos with multiple prompts for bulk image generation?

If you sign up for the yearly plan, the pricing is over 50% cheaper, which means 6+ months free compared to regular monthly pricing. This is our way of thanking you for your trust in our Photo AI and lets us reinvest your money to improve the product.

Every Pro, Premium and Ultra subscription to Photo AI now gives you a big set of free photos for every new model you create! That means thousands of free photos for Ultra plan subscribers. If you become a yearly subscriber, you get 6+ months free.For the plans itself you can check the <a target="" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://photoai.com/#pricing">pricing</a> here.Photo AI subscriptions are paid though for a reason:Remember all those amazing free apps and services you used that eventually shut down, got acquired, or disappeared overnight? That’s because free services usually can’t sustain themselves financially. Here’s why:Running a service like Photo AI costs money: servers, development, maintenance, and ongoing improvements. If an app is free, it either burns through the founder’s savings, relies on venture capital, or makes money by selling your data. None of these options guarantee the app’s long-term survival.Take the typical “free app” story: • A developer builds a cool, free product. • It gains popularity but can’t generate revenue, so it gets sold to a bigger company. • The new owner shuts it down or ruins it, leaving users without the service they loved.We don’t want that to happen with Photo AI.Instead, by charging for the service, we can stay independent, cover our costs, and continue improving the app for our users. We’re not a venture-funded startup forced to grow at all costs or sell out to the highest bidder. We’re a 100% owner independent platform focused on delivering real value to our users without compromising on quality or ethics.If you like what we do, support Photo AI by becoming a paid user. It ensures we can keep building the features you love while staying here for the long term.

Is Photo AI free?

We recommend uploading photos with high variety, a mix of close-up selfies and full body shots in a variety of places, angles, clothes and expressions. Do not upload photos with low variety, group photos, other people, sunglasses, hats, photos where your face is cut off or not visible.If you’re creating an AI influencer from scratch, you don’t need to upload any photos though. You just design a new persona based on how you


What type of photos should I upload for creating an AI model?

Photo AI lets you upload selfies, create AI models and then generate AI photos and videos with them. We teach the AI how you look and then it's able to generate photorealistic images and videos of you. You can put yourself in different settings, with different outfits, doing different actions, with different expressions, and even talking to the camera in your voice. And best of all, you can do all this from your laptop or phone without having to pay an expensive photographer $100s or $1000s. After sign up you get access to Photo AI's studio which lets you use our photo shoot preset templates, write prompts or copycat photos of other people, to generate anything you can think of.


How does Photo AI's AI Photo & Video Generator work?

Photo AI uses its own generation pipeline which is trained for high photorealism. The main generation model we use now is Flux. We use many other models to perform other functions like post-processing, upscaling, taking videos, adding audio to videos, adding voice to videos etc.We keep working on improving our pipeline using reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) by users like you which constantly improves our models. All of this to get you better more photorealistic photos and videos!

What AI model do you use?

You can upgrade or downgrade your plan at any time. Go to the top left and click the Photo AI logo, when you are logged in and click Billing, you will be redirected to Stripe's billing portal where you can switch plans. Downgrades will activate at the next billing cycle. Upgrades are instant.

How do I upgrade or downgrade my plan?

Very fast. Right now it’s about 15 seconds! And you can take many photos in parallel especially on the higher plans.

How long does it take to take an AI photo?

Yes! You can upload any clothes and the model will wear them for you. We use the latest state of the art try on models. We have many customers like fashion designers and dropshippers that already use it everyday for Shopify stores. They can design clothes virtually and already put them on models without ever producing the clothes!Even cooler, with the [ Make video ] feature you can turn your models wearing your clothes into videos!

Can I use Photo AI to put clothes on models for my Shopify store?

You can check <a target="" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://photoai.com/#pricing">current pricing here</a>. You get 6+ months free if you pay yearly. You can cancel at any time by clicking the Billing link on the frontpage or inside the app.

How much does Photo AI cost? Is it free? What are the subscription plans for Photo AI?

The resemblance of the photos to you depends on the quality and variety of the photos you upload. The better and more varied your photos, the more accurately the AI can understand and represent your unique characteristics. Premium and Ultra plans have the highest resemblance.

How much will my AI photos look like me?

This service was built by me, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://twitter.com/levelsio">Pieter Levels (@levelsio)</a>, a Dutch indie entrepreneur known for other projects like <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://nomadlist.com/">Nomad List</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://remoteok.com/">Remote OK</a>, and <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://interiorai.com/">Interior AI</a>.It is a 100%-owned independent business without investors.I run it all by myself, with the help of thousands of AI robots ☺️

Who created Photo AI?

We did have one but not anymore. It's easier to focus all my energy on just the Photo AI website and make that the best AI photo and video generator out there.If you see one called Photo AI, it’s a rip-off and not related to us!Existing Photo AI iOS subscriptions have all automatically ended.

Is there a Photo AI iOS app?

Due to lots of fraud attempts, we've had to increase our payment security. Firstly, disable your VPN or proxy server. Then make sure your name, CVC and postal code match the one on your payment card and of your bank account. Also your card country should be the same as your billing country. And finally make sure you enable 3D Secure or similar authentication on your card with your bank.We also do not accept customers from the Philippines due to massive and repeated card abuse from there. We’re not planning to change this any time soon.

My payment card is not accepted when signing up

Depending on your plan the time of training can range from 30 minutes to 2 hours. The longer we train your model the higher quality you get. Which is why the higher plans are more expensive!

How long will it take to create my AI model?

We accept JPG, PNG, WebP and AVIF files only. HEIC is not supported now, so you'll have to convert those to JPG first


What file formats of photos do you accept for creating an AI model?						

Sometimes yes!Depending on the quality of the uploaded photos, and the type of photos you take, you might see some AI artefacts.With the new Flux model we use, generally stuff like strange anatomy, limbs and especially hands (!) is mostly fixed now.Any app that uses generative AI imaging will have artefacts sometimes. They can be illogical things like extra arms, deformed faces etc. From our experience, about 90% of photos you take will be good enough, and 10% will be very good. We also have an editor (tap [ Edit photo ]) so you can brush away artefacts yourself and regenerate those parts. We're improving Photo AI every day to reduce artefacts for example by auto-detecting them and then re-trying. But remember AI is not perfect yet and we're not promising it is. Nor can any other AI app right now.

Will my AI photos have artefacts?

After every payment you get a receipt and invoice emailed to you by Stripe.

How do I get a receipt and invoice for my payment?

We accept payments via credit or debit cards, including MasterCard, VISA, American Express, as well as iDeal, SOFORT, Bancontact, Przelewy24, Giropay, EPS, GrabPay, AliPay, and many more. However, we do not accept PayPal or cryptocurrency and are not planning to right now.