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Comment by orthoganol | Hacker News Reader

Is this a community/ support group or your startup? Noticed you are calling yourself 'founder'.

So hi.remotetogether.com is a community and support group, but I'm going to eventually create products around RemoteTogether.

The forum is just the start. Also have some podcasts coming soon. Sorry for the confusion.

Thank you for the honesty. I am always looking for support groups as a remote worker and occasional traveler, but to be honest myself, I believe there are too many opportunists/ profiteers in the digital nomad 'industry', and it simply annoys me. I will not be participating, but I wish you good luck.

For anyone interested, r/digitalnomad is probably the best 'support group' currently.

yeah - no problem. This isn't quite for Digital Nomads really. Honestly, I think digital nomads already have a community... I work from home. I don't work from other countries really.

So my vision is to create a community of Remote workers. http://levels.io has done a great job of creating a community for Digital Nomads. RemoteTogether is more for the people who work from home and spend upwards of 10 hours at home working.

Levels also has had a fair share of backlash in the DN community for being said profiteer ($100 to join a Slack group, for example. $20 for 14 page 'guides' for cities with info mostly taken from free forums, etc.). If he's your model, go for it. I would just add an asterisk to your use of 'support group' or 'community.'

Hmm. I didn't quite realize that, honestly. I don't plan to monetize hi.remotetogether.com. I could maybe see ads at some point on there? But that's about it. I have other monetization strategies. Like create an actual product.

Also, I would say what Levels.io has done with nomadslist.com is exceptional. I've used it for a couple of trips (Vacations - DigitalNomad-ing) I've been on. I realize you may not be a big fan of him, but he's done some good! Just food for thought.

Thanks for the responses though. Very. Very. Very. Insightful. Things I hadn't considered.

The StackOverflow business model might be an interesting case study: the goal has usually [1] been community first and any monitization being done using that community's exhaust fumes. I suppose there is a plausible case that that's Hacker News's business model too...attract people who might apply to YC, get in, and build a successful startup.

[1]: StackExchange version 1.0 was an exception.

Completely agree!

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