Thank you for the honesty. I am always looking for support groups as a remote worker and occasional traveler, but to be honest myself, I believe there are too many opportunists/ profiteers in the digital nomad 'industry', and it simply annoys me. I will not be participating, but I wish you good luck.

For anyone interested, r/digitalnomad is probably the best 'support group' currently.

yeah - no problem. This isn't quite for Digital Nomads really. Honestly, I think digital nomads already have a community... I work from home. I don't work from other countries really.

So my vision is to create a community of Remote workers. http://levels.io has done a great job of creating a community for Digital Nomads. RemoteTogether is more for the people who work from home and spend upwards of 10 hours at home working.

Levels also has had a fair share of backlash in the DN community for being said profiteer ($100 to join a Slack group, for example. $20 for 14 page 'guides' for cities with info mostly taken from free forums, etc.). If he's your model, go for it. I would just add an asterisk to your use of 'support group' or 'community.'

Hmm. I didn't quite realize that, honestly. I don't plan to monetize hi.remotetogether.com. I could maybe see ads at some point on there? But that's about it. I have other monetization strategies. Like create an actual product.

Also, I would say what Levels.io has done with nomadslist.com is exceptional. I've used it for a couple of trips (Vacations - DigitalNomad-ing) I've been on. I realize you may not be a big fan of him, but he's done some good! Just food for thought.

Thanks for the responses though. Very. Very. Very. Insightful. Things I hadn't considered.

The StackOverflow business model might be an interesting case study: the goal has usually [1] been community first and any monitization being done using that community's exhaust fumes. I suppose there is a plausible case that that's Hacker News's business model too...attract people who might apply to YC, get in, and build a successful startup.

[1]: StackExchange version 1.0 was an exception.

Completely agree!