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the guy took advantage of tiktok algorithms and manipulated micro influencers into reaching his audience.. everything in 1-2 weeks.

tiktok is not to blame, but it wasn't real democracy.

Would love to have a short chat about this in the near future, if you have time!

Working on building a tiny (2-3) customer base for my "product strategy"-as-a-service one man show company.

Next thing on the "roadmap" is content marketing.

Longer term plan is to build some useful B2B micro-products. Might apply to HN, at some point, with the outcome of these experiments.

This being said, if the roadmap changes mostly based on new customer asks.. then you're not building a product, but doing custom development / professional services work.

I'm open for questions.

[SALARIES] developers earn from 1500 EUR to 5000 EUR (after taxes)

[RENT] for 1 bedroom appt: ~300-400 EUR (near the city center)

[LANGUAGE] 80% of people you'll ever meet speak good english.

[ENTARTAINMENT] Hundreds of bars, cafes and theatres. Events, meetups, festivals and concerts happening non stop.

[COMMUTING] If you live on one of the main subway lines (highly likey), it will probably take you less than 15-20 minutes to reach the center.

[LOCATION] Mountains at 2 hours (train or car), seaside at 2.5 hours.

+ there are cheap flights to any part of Europe (2-3 hours) for ~100 EUR or less.

BAD SIDE: noisy, crowded and sometimes kind of stressful - but all of these can be managed by travelling around the country, which is beautiful (lots of mountains, rivers, lakes, interesting cities to visit..)

PS: I'm born and raised here, lived in Paris and worked from other big cities. Bucharest is still the best place for me when I factor in (income, prices, lifestyle).

This being said, as a PM (or at least as the specific "story writing and prioritizing" sub-category of PMs known as a Product Owner) you sometimes have the feeling that you're adding complexity and overhead to the process without actually contributing much. I guess this is true mostly when you're new to the company and have a long way to becoming an integral part of the product development machine.

In addition, I have to agree with this line taken from another comment: "Growth stage developers are a different breed than scale stage developers. As a company reaches scale, things generally need to get more formal and experts take favour over generalists."