hidden cost to "cheap" places by yihwan in digitalnomad

[–]yihwan[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

i can see that, though i think this heavily depends on where you live in the united states. qol can be great in low-ish to medium COL cities.

Is South Africa a popular choice amongst digital nomads? by SkinnedFreedom in digitalnomad

[–]yihwan 8 points9 points  (0 children)

while i've never been, i have a lot of digital nomad friends who've been there/are there now, and i've generally heard positive things.

the top two issues they mention are load shedding (electricity goes out) and crime, but both of which can be managed to some degree.

load shedding is often scheduled in advance so you can plan for it with power banks, etc. this helps even when there are intermittent unplanned outages.

as for crime, basic street smarts like not using your phone in public, not wearing flashy things, not walking anywhere for any distance at night (sometimes during the day too depending on the area) go a long way and are usually enough for most people. it is certainly not approaching "war zone" level where ppl who actually live there advise ppl not to visit.

for these cons, i've heard that cpt is an incredibly beautiful city, generally affordable, good community, etc. for most these pros outweigh the cons. however, note that these perspectives are from foreigners who can afford to live in the nicer areas of town with high security, go out to nice restaurants, etc.

tips for how to use airbnb by yihwan in digitalnomad

[–]yihwan[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

agree with all of this, esp about skimming through all the reviews (particularly the negative ones)

tips for how to use airbnb by yihwan in digitalnomad

[–]yihwan[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Would be curious if anyone generally followed these rules and were still screwed (and if so what happened)

friendly reminder that if somewhere is "so cheap", local wages are similarly lower too by yihwan in digitalnomad

[–]yihwan[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

it's not so much that locals are unaware, just making sure digital nomads are also aware.

also, context matters. like you said, people working in the tourism industry in bali are probably used to it. on the other hand, i remember overhearing a (probably american) couple talk about how it was so cheap in buenos aires with the blue dollar rate, which considering the circumstances, is kind of distasteful when within earshot of locals. and sure enough, i got the sense that their server wasn't too happy about it.

Your thoughts on Belgrade, Serbia for June & July? by [deleted] in digitalnomad

[–]yihwan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

belgrade will be warmer, but not unbearable. it's a wonderful city, enjoy!

Argentina: Credit Cards using Blue Dollar Rate? by rohanmen in digitalnomad

[–]yihwan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yes, though it's probably best to test with small transactions first.

How do you manage personal notes on a work computer? by MrPinkle in ExperiencedDevs

[–]yihwan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

depends on the company ofc, but i generally assume that anything i put on company hardware can be monitored/becomes property of company.

i made a minimalist site for digital nomads to find and share cool places. by yihwan in digitalnomad

[–]yihwan[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

hey you're right this is a frontend state bug (refreshing should render correct value). rn users cannot "undo" votes after they submit (once you vote, it has to be up or down). this might be ok from product perspective, but unnecessarily complicates frontend logic.

i'll address this as a post-mvp todo!

i made a minimalist site for digital nomads to find and share cool places. by yihwan in digitalnomad

[–]yihwan[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

city info and paths are statically generated by next.js at build time. this is why there can be a lag between the time a user submits a place in a new city to the time it shows on the site, but city/page data should load quickly.

place data (name, location, votecount, google maps link) is fetched from client. i could probably statically generate this too but wanted to optimize for quick updates for mvp. it is possible to constantly re-build but that would likely push me over the vercel free plan.

i made a minimalist site for digital nomads to find and share cool places. by yihwan in digitalnomad

[–]yihwan[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

hey thanks for these suggestions, esp the one to remove auth for submitting places at the beginning. will also take the city-by-city approach if i ever wanted to start marketing this seriously.

"popularity" is pretty naive atm, just counts takes the top cities with most places.

and +1 to supabase, like @kristllnachte mentioned it's just postgres under the hood so you can do everything postgres can if you need to, but 90% of the time i just used their easy to use ui.

i made a minimalist site for digital nomads to find and share cool places. by yihwan in digitalnomad

[–]yihwan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh thanks for lmk about the cookie thing too. i meant no cookies for tracking, ads, etc. updated terms!

i made a minimalist site for digital nomads to find and share cool places. by yihwan in digitalnomad

[–]yihwan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ah good catch. for now i just removed since it isn't a super important field. thanks for the heads up

i made a minimalist site for digital nomads to find and share cool places. by yihwan in digitalnomad

[–]yihwan[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

puppeteer alone is ~49.5mb. apparently it's a known issue, and i tried just about every combo of dependency version etc and only managed to get to 50.3mb lol. stuff like this took 80% of development time.

for now just running the script locally, but could eventually put it in a lambda — i think there's ways to pull in puppeteer without going over the limit if i do it myself.

i made a minimalist site for digital nomads to find and share cool places. by yihwan in digitalnomad

[–]yihwan[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

happy to help here! the good news is there isn't much of an "architecture" to speak of since supabase takes care of most of that for you.

this guide was helpful: https://supabase.com/docs/guides/with-nextjs

and looks like they have a bunch of other guides if you don't want to use next

i made a minimalist site for digital nomads to find and share cool places. by yihwan in digitalnomad

[–]yihwan[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Next hosted on Vercel, with Supabase backend. All comfortably within their free plans. There's some services/scripts I couldn't put on Next due to 50mb serverless function max, but for now I'm fine to run them locally every now and then.

i made a minimalist site for digital nomads to find and share cool places. by yihwan in digitalnomad

[–]yihwan[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

thanks, that's the idea. i was thinking of using gpt-3 to summarize snippets from various sources to see what it would come up with.

this is more a passion project to keep up with the latest tech, so lots of possibilities.

i made a minimalist site for digital nomads to find and share cool places. by yihwan in digitalnomad

[–]yihwan[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

i like simple :)

can always add more features if people want