Agreed, almost any developer could build the same products. The real reason for success is by selling the nomad lifestyle via social media.
People buy into the dream.
People buy into the dream.
Call me square but it's much easier to just overpay for rent in the USA and just focus on building "bulletproof" skills for a long career here.
After all, nobody stands up postgres on EC2 anymore right, we all just use redshift and lambdas? right? ok well maybe not all of us :)