[ramesh31]

There’s a flip side to being a dev from low income countries, where the cost of living can be freeing. The entire cost of building software is paying for programmers time. If you are skilled and talented, the arbitrage of your time being so cheap from low cost of living can pay massive dividends if you are working on something worthwhile. There’s a reason all of the best games in the last 5-10 years have been almost exclusively European and Asian devs. The US has priced itself out of being able to do anything but the most expensive high level software work that scales to billions of users. The result is that there’s a ton of room in the middle now for small software teams that are able to bootstrap.