[caser]

I started Hacker Paradise as a side project in 2014, and now we're a full-time team of 3.

We organize trips around the world for developers, designers, and entrepreneurs who want to work remotely while traveling. People pay us to organize housing, accommodations, and community events wherever we go (past speakers have been CIO of Estonia in Tallin, Matz in Tokyo, etc.).

Happy; to answer questions about running more of an ops business that still is related to tech.

[taxthrowaway]

I always thought this would be a great business as you can essentially create tax deductible vacations for entreprenuers just like all the doctors do.

See this page from a Heli ski operator which specifically markets trips to doctors: http://www.canadianmountainholidays.com/heli-skiing/special-...

Basically throw in some education or networking and your trip is all the sudden 50% off!

[clueless123]

It would be very interesting if they could also exchange teaching/workshops (Scrum/TDD/Cloud etc) for benefits.. ( a night out, dinner, surfing lessons etc.. )

In my experience local (Here in Peru) shops are very interested on learning from foreign developers.

[chrisrxth]

I am currently on the trip in Jeju. Hacker Paradise is great. Highly recommend.

[ljf]

Any blog posts or other info about this? Sounds great and a HN front page worthy business!

[caser]

Thanks! We wrote some blog posts last year, but I've been meaning to do an update on the whole project.

Here's our main site: www.hackerparadise.org

Here's a blog post with some of our marketing experiments: http://www.hackerparadise.org/blog/2015/05/06/marketing-less...

What would you like to know more about?

[heroprotagonist]

How feasible would it be to do this year round? eg, do the trip schedules always overlap?

At $500-600 per week, one could put their stuff in storage, skip their lease renewal, and put a couple grand a month of rental expense towards this to reduce the overall cost.

My concern with that approach is that I would need to manage any intermediary periods where there was no trip. Shopping for short term housing is kind of annoying, and can be expensive without proper planning. eg, I wouldn't want to go live in a hotel from December 18th to January 7th, the time between the Bali and Argentina trips. I mean, I guess I could arrange to stay with family elsewhere, or grab an airbnb somewhere, but it'd be cool if that was handled too.

I also wouldn't mind seeing a program that stays within the continental US, with easy access to airports. I'm considering a couple of positions, and the more attractive one will require some occasional travel, which is easier to manage if it's not international.