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Ask HN: Strategies to land remote US job while living in living in EU?

Hello, I am experienced software developer working on enterprise software in eastern Europe country. With rising inflation and stagnant local salaries it's getting harder to afford a decent standard of living. I am looking at these jaw dropping US salaries, even 60k/yr would put me among top 3% earners in my county. Browsing US job boards I find many remote contract based and salaried positions...

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Ask HN: Strategies to land remote US job while living in living in EU

Hello, I am experienced software developer working on enterprise software in eastern Europe country. With rising inflation and stagnant local salaries it's getting harder to afford a decent standard of living. I am looking at these jaw dropping US salaries, even 60k/yr would put me among top 3% earners in my county. Browsing US job boards I find many remote contract based and salaried...

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Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

This question was asked last year (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21332072) by gajus, and I'm curious what it looks nowadays.> How many people on hacker news are running successful online businesses on their own? What is your business and how did you get started?> Defining successful as a profitable business which provides the majority of the owners income.> Has recent shutdown...

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Re:Revolut raises $500M at a $5.5B valuation on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @06:09AM (#22412276)
Revolut has quite a big customer base in Lithuania and recently many articles have been published about people having their accounts frozen without notice.

Article in Lithuanian: https://www.delfi.lt/verslas/mano-eurai/revolut-klientai-pra...

Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @12:29PM (#21336249)
How do you drive traffic to the website?
Re:Serverless: slower and more expensive on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @10:33AM (#21060591)
Which VPS provider do you use and what is your backend stack?