How I built a startup while traveling to 20 countries
In this technical retrospective (2015), @Red_Tarsius shares practical architectural lessons learned from running, scaling, or migrating production software under lean constraints.
HN engineers debated the tradeoffs between cloud convenience and raw server economics, database indexing strategies, and resisting premature architectural complexity.
This is an interesting article that raises questions about larger scale application. I wonder how the "nomadic" startup method would work once a startup has shifted from a single person effort into a larger team collaboration. Is there a need for teams to be physically in the same place? Would it be beneficial for entire teams to constantly be on the move?
It must take a certain type of personality to be able to pull this off. I am guessing that they need to be single with no strong emotional attachments to family or love ones, relatively healthy, extremely focused on a single objective, and working on projects that do work well for small teams.
Disclaimer: I'm not the author of the article, but I'm extremely interested in the technomadic lifestyle and I hope to achieve it someday soon.
If you're interested in other nomadic-related articles, check out:
- Matthew Karsten: http://goo.gl/kUydE
- Alex MacCaw: http://goo.gl/bjw4P
- Raam Dev: http://goo.gl/SwH6lO
- Thomas Backlund: http://goo.gl/GVlES
- Noel Tock: http://goo.gl/7fGJOv
- Jason Fox: http://goo.gl/LSnlV9
- Peter Levels: https://levels.io/
- ...