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A big lesson here is to have a good financial education, what helped me a lot was the fact that even the business started to go really well, I didn't started to spend more, I pay myself a decent salary and I try to live with it, so even if the company get bankrupt, I would probably easily find a job somewhere else.

This helps to think more long term and do what is best for the company, while avoiding the extra 'personal' pressure from your wife, kids or others that rely on your income.

Believe me or not our editor (more than a copywriter) earns a bigger salary than me, but yep, only in this way I can get nicely edited articles on the front-page of HN :D

SEO game is not that difficult if you compare with other niches and is not owned by big theme players, due the how people are searching for themes is owned by blogs building collections of best xx themes.

A recipe that works now is something like : release few free themes, write some great articles and continue to keep them updated.

Glad to hear, right product and the right time :)

Cool to see this picked-up as a 2nd chance experiment on HN front-page. I would to answer questions about it :).

Until now is interesting to see how most of the people see it as a success story while we lost 50% of our revenues few months ago.

The theme can be downloaded from here : https://www.dropbox.com/s/srlq1u... and you have ideas for us the Github link is : https://github.com/Codeinwp/zillah ( if you get it directly from the github, you aren’t getting updates since the update script is added later on )

Hey,

I am a co-founder and employee of a company so while salary stuff is clear, things like dividends + fiscal residence + tax treaty makes you crazy to be short.

Just working remotely for a company and being in a specific location all the time is certainly way easier to handle.

I struggled about finding the right title, I don't really consider myself a fully digital nomad either, the article is about remote work, however under my personal circumstances, I am now more an expat than a nomad.

Some learnings happened also in different periods of my life, so is really hard to write a title/content that is clear and all the people reading it will identify.

You are not really disagreeing :), the point was that a while ago I used to work 16 hours / day or work 2 am - 11am and sleep whole day which was really crazy.

Working between 7am - 11pm is quite ok, I agree with all those advantages.

You are true, being a remote worker is not so complicated, the article was written from an expat/nomad + remote worker experience.

This is a quite big problem as well, I have lived for a while in a city with virtually no expat community, which made things even harder.

I suspect that living in a more expat-friendly city will make the transition easier, however my point remains, won't be like living the dream.

I am sure that having a family will change everything about how I work and I hope it will make even more sense.

Thanks for advice!

Yep indeed, my goal here was to tell non-remote workers that is not always sunshine and rainbows :).

Make sure you take a look at Mailjet and SendinBlue as well, they are some big french players.

Here are some others : http://www.codeinwp.com/blog/mandrill-alternatives/

Thank you for your comment, we are thinking to associate us with some trusted brands and add also : credit card verification ( small donation ) + postal address verification , if you want to be trusted .

I think that is space, for example I was not able to find a project management tool to satisfy all my needs, the best that I found was teambox.com .

I clearly would be willing to pay for this, but what is also important for me is to respond also to mentions+DM ( now we don't have them )

Yes, I understand your point, but the problem is that if the developer doesn't post enough information, the employer won't be able to evaluate their work and they will not be able to differentiate people that are good from people that are not. A solution that I see for those kind of people is to introduce a 5 minute call with any developer that apply and see what kind of person they are .

I'm not sure if this will work, the thing is that a lot of good hackers that I know, don't like to spend time on writing nice resumes, sign-up for jobs websites, write a good bio, introduction etc, they simply prefer to do what they like :)

Hello,

Regarding freelancer marketplaces if you think that those favor experienced/cheap freelancers you are a bit wrong, based on your skills I suggest you to brand yourself as a javascript/node expert, don't hesitate to ask more money than other people ( my bids was almost all the time the most expensive in the list ) and target clients that are looking for more than a very cheap freelancer , and there are some advantages to that strategy : - your high bid give you a boost of trust in the eyes of the client - your future client will respect you more ( it's psychology , if you pay more for a thing, you will valuate it more ) - you will want to work with people that have this mentality

To make sure that this will work for you, try to post some jobs in your field, study the competition and make sure that your bids ( proposals ) looks much better and you are really doing a good job compared with them .

If you have more questions, you can reach me at : ionut.neagu[[at]]vertistudio.com

I have good knowledge about small internet businesses, web-programming ,seo and freelancer marketplaces and I can advise entrepreneurs that are really at the beginning. I have create more than 100 websites, I run a web-agency ( codeinwp.com ) and I have worked 3 years on freelancer websites .Contact me at : ionut.neagu@vertistudio.com