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Where? I am currently in Thailand.

How is it over there? I'd email you, but you have no email address in your profile.

japan. on traveler's visa. very, very random story.

Really? Philippines here, I got rejected too but it's cool, After much evaluation on my part. My start up needs customers more than investors at this point. And yeah living in the Philippines I have the advantage of lower expenses all across the board. :-)

I dunno about the Philippines, but I do know that user preferences in the Eastern hemisphere are very different from those in the West. And if you are developing for a Western audience, you may very well be in the wrong place.

Cause the only way to know anything about your customers is to look out the door?

I assume they are american expats...

... or maybe they are developing a product for the 5/6th of the world that isn't America.

or they share a similar very very random story.

I presented to a bunch of devs 2 months ago, and despite being senior IT developers, they never heard of digg or delicious. It's not a big deal, but it's hard to get your point across.

True but the Philippines is the 2nd largest outsourcing country to India(Correct me if I'm wrong) Although I agree that going out there and getting to know your customers is the most important thing.

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