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Top 3% overall. And I agree. It doesn't mean much. Just that I've answered a lot of questions that people liked and upvoted. Nevertheless, it works for marketing.

Actually in many places in the world (e.g. Middle East, Asia and Africa) you've crappy landline Internet connection, but if you use your phone you get 4G/LTE with high-speed and relatively low latency.

You might wanna have a look at our post about moving our office for a month to an island in Thailand http://blog.mobilejazz.com/working-remotely-from-a-tropical-... which gives you a bit more insights on how "running a business on the beach" actually looks in reality.

Yes, but many times it also ends up in "maintenance" work. So new projects are always more exciting, but they might be rather short term and don't provide stability. In the end a mix of both worlds is what we try to achieve :-)

Hey, I'm one of the co-founders of Mobile Jazz.

Initially most of the work came through our personal networks. Myself I grew up in Germany and lived in San Francisco for some time. My co-founder had a strong network in Barcelona through his previous job at Deloitte. Today we still get requests through our personal network, however, most of our new incoming work is simply referral based. We don't even have a single sales person. So we try our best possible to do quality work, but also are actively involved with our clients and partners and help them improve their own businesses. This is not just an extra effort on our side, but also makes the whole "work" thing way more exciting and interesting for ourselves, rather than just being a sweatshop that churns out code.

We mostly work with startups, some of them as clients and some as partners. But we also have been recommended and introduced to some big corporations in various industries. And while we don't like the bureaucratic hassle that comes with it, it does give us quite some stability. For example, a big medical company just switched to use as their main supplier for web development, which immediately gave us 30 new long-term projects.

Overall we always try to give a lot, be involved and pro-active and help where we can. In the end you always get something in return. This has been my personal philosophy since ever and always and we've also established this as one of the cornerstones in our company culture.

SEEKING WORK: Remote (we're a distributed team of high quality mobile & backend engineers)

http://mobilejazz.com

We are Mobile Jazz, a collective of excellent engineers and designers with a strong focus on everything mobile and beyond. We've been doing Android and iOS development from their beginnings in 2008.

Additionally we've a ton of experience in backend development (PHP, Go, Java & Scala) and web frontend development (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript).

Check us out here: http://mobilejazz.com

If you've any questions please get in touch with me via stefan@mobilejazz.com - happy to answer any questions :-)

PS: We've worked successfully with other HN members before.

I've a similar thing. I get most of my good ideas (and those are not necessarily big ideas, but simple tweaks) while not having Internet access and therefore not the opportunity to be constantly distracted.

Examples: driving a car (without radio/podcasts), sitting in a chair lift (when skiing), kitesurfing.

Location: International with clients in US, Europe, ME and Asia. HQ in Barcelona.

Remote: YES

Willing to relocate: short-term

Technologies: Mobile (iOS, Android, Windows), Web, Backend (Go, Scala, Java, PHP, Node.js), Design

Résumé/CV: http://mobilejazz.com

Email: stefan@mobilejazz.com

We’ve worked with various folks from HN over the past 3 years with very satisfying outcomes for everyone :-)

Specifically for mobile logging and remote debugging you might wanna check out Bugfender's remote logger: http://bugfender.com/

Disclosure: I'm on of the co-founders. We've a couple of other related tools in the pipeline, but the BF remote logger was the first we built, mostly to solve our own need at Mobile Jazz.

For the Thai experiment it was exclusively those who didn't have family. Some with family considered it, but as most of their kids are still very young they didn't do it in the end.

Regarding the remote work, even when we're at home, that means we're in different cities and even different countries, so our whole company is set up as a remote company, although many chose to work from the main office in Barcelona. To answer your question, no one felt left out, because we simply continued to work as usual (chat, video calls, etc.), it just happened that some of us were at the different location.

Actually Thai people can do exactly the same.

While from a legal perspective it might be all correct what you're saying, I think that most people simply have more important matters to worry about.

For example, it's also illegal to cross a red traffic light as a pedestrian at 3am in the night on a deserted street. That doesn't mean that it is immoral or that it causes harm to anyone.

And I wouldn't even want to know all the "illegal" things you're doing that you are not even aware of. Just saying.

For some people that is their work.

> No, you stated you were working

Noticed the smiley?

Nevertheless, how do you differentiate between holidays and work and where to draw the line? If you're responding to a work emails while being on holidays, does that count towards the taxable income in that country you're visiting?

> Did you file a tax statement and did you pay any taxes on income earned while you were residing in Thailand?

Absolutely. We're not evading taxes. All income is taxed in Spain. And we weren't residing in Thailand. We were only visiting it and happened to also do some things that were related to our business back home in Europe. The work we did had nothing to do with Thailand itself.

I'm not an international tax specialist, but at least from a moral point of view I don't see that we did something wrong.

In European countries for example you only become a tax resident if you spend more than 183 days there.

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Taking aside the current legal situation and trying to look at it from a purely financial aspect, wouldn't it be beneficial for countries like Thailand to allow those kind of people in for a limited amount of time and have them spend their money there?

Assuming Thailand will crack down on those temporary remote workers, they will just go some other place.

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Those were already the best they had available on the island ;-)

We actually met a couple of people from HN on Koh Samui ;-)

And yes, I agree it doesn't make sense to be there permanently, but traveling once in a while to the big business hubs in the world and spending a month here and there helps.

What I personally don't want to do though is to permanently live in a city that is crowded with people. So doing those time-limited remote experiments is a nice change of perspective and a very good way to recharge your batteries while still staying productive.

Many of us working at Mobile Jazz actually have family and we care a lot about integrating them in whatever we do: http://blog.mobilejazz.com/work-life-balance-at-mobile-jazz/

It's not always perfectly possible, but at least we try :-)

Many of us have families and on this particular trip to Thailand those people stayed back home in Europe.

However for the trip we did just recently to the Austrian Alps pretty much everyone joined. But that was also a lot shorter and the focus was more on skiing/snowboarding than on doing work.

What you can do though is travel to the US for business purposes.

In our specific case in Thailand we never worked more than the usual 8 hours a day and on the weekends we organized trips together. So our goal was not to have people put together so that they work more, but rather have a good time and adventure together.

We were there on holidays ;-)

But I know what you're talking and while what we're doing is technically a gray zone, what the government is after is mostly freelancers that basically live in Thailand, but are not paying taxes there and are constantly on a visa run to re-enter the country.

That was one of the problems we actually described in our blog post about the Thailand experience. It took as us while to actually find out rhythm (simple things like finding food, doing laundry, etc.) and that was taking a lot of our energy and time in the beginning.

And then once you're set up and feel 'home' in that new place it's already time to leave again. So the biggest learning experience for us is to stay longer next time.

So at Mobile Jazz we made it a voluntary thing. After all you cannot force your employees to go anywhere ;-)

To Thailand only a few of us went, mostly for the family reasons.

However, to our most recent trip to the Austrian Alps we had almost everyone in the company head over there.

In general we're actually very pro-family. We do have a main office in Barcelona, but everyone is allowed to work from virtually anywhere. Some of us travel and work from remote locations, but for those with families it's also a great benefit to work from home and have more time with their families.

All of us should meet up some time ;-)

Hey, I'm one of the co-founders who runs Mobile Jazz.

To answer your questions:

1) We actually wanted to experience a new culture and also have some kind of adventure. We're already doing things in Spain, so we just wanted to try out something new and see how it works :-)

2) This was only a 2 month experiment, but our whole company is set up for remote work. So some of us continuously travel and work from different places. Myself I've been living in a camper van for a year now (blog post pending ;-)), but this was the first experiment where we actually rented two houses offshore and moved a bunch of people there.

Since then we also had another experiment. We spent some time in the Austrian Alps for skiing. We'll write about it soon.

And the next thing we want to do is actually in Spain (in the mountains) and then we're planning to go to Mauritius for a month or so.

SEEKING WORK: Remote (we're a distributed team of high quality mobile & backend engineers)

http://mobilejazz.com

We are Mobile Jazz, a collective of excellent engineers and designers with a strong focus on everything mobile and beyond. We've been doing Android and iOS development from their beginnings in 2008.

Additionally we've a ton of experience in backend development (PHP, Go, Java & Scala) and web frontend development (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript).

Check us out here: http://mobilejazz.com

If you've any questions please get in touch with me via stefan@mobilejazz.com - happy to answer any questions :-)

PS: We've worked successfully with other HN members before.

While not exactly the same as lnav, at Mobile Jazz we're building a remote logger for mobile devices (iOS only at this stage, support for Android, JS web apps and native desktop applications coming soon): http://bugfender.com/

We use Bugfender already for our own applications as well as for our clients, but we'd love to hear some unbiased feedback from other people whether or not this would be a useful product worth paying for. You can sign up here for a free beta account: https://app.bugfender.com/signup

Hello HN folks! This is Stefan from Mobile Jazz http://mobilejazz.com/.

We've been developing Bugfender and using it as an internal tool for quite some time now and decided to promote it to an actual product.

This is our first beta release of Bugfender, which is now also open to the public. You can find out more on our product page (link above) or by reading this blog post: http://bugfender.com/blog/this-is-bugfender-were-live/

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Current status:

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* iOS SDK available and fully working.

* Android and JS SDK in development.

* The web admin is still basic, but working well.

* We've a free account for 3 months during the beta (extendable for another 3 months)

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We'd appreciate feedback about:

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* The product itself. Is it useful to you?

* The product website. Is it easy to understand?

* The pricing page. Does it make sense? What would you price differently.

* The FAQ page. Is it clear enough? What leaves doubt? What would you add?

* Future: what are the features you'd like to have at most?

* Competition: what similar products are you using at the moment? What do you like about them? What do you not like about them?

* An obviously any other kind of feedback is more than welcome as well :-)

Myself and my co-founders will stick around here for a while and are happy to answer any questions you might have.

Thanks. Appreciate the feedback. Already implemented :-)

Not exactly the same, but if anyone is interested we just launched Bugfender a few days ago, a platform for remote logging/remote debugging on mobile devices (and later also desktop and JS web applications). It's still in a very early stage and so far we only have an iOS SDK available, but any kind of feedback is appreciated.

The beta is now open to the public you can simply create an account here: http://bugfender.com/