Why nomad to nomad? What is the relevance of that? Why not "person with idea" plus "person looking for a project"? It seems to me that adding this additional condition unnecessarily limits the candidate pool for no apparent reason.
The first reason is we feel that side projects have a better chance when you team up with someone like you. We experienced that people with regular day jobs have a totally different schedule and lifestyle. When you want to start a side project you need someone who understands the life of a digital nomad.
The second reason is that we need to separate us from our competitors. The idea certainly isn’t new and thus we need to target a niche market which for us is digital nomads.
True that, signups have been great. Also lots of side projects that already started, proud of that :)