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Cool Name. But pretty hard in terms of SEO. Search for "rust on nails" on Google.

Looks like a lot of new people will rush to http://www.bestpaidremotejobs.com again.

The latest wave of followers came due to the latest Twitter and Meta layoffs.

SEEKING FREELANCER

Job link: https://twitter.com/bestpaidremote/status/158646476883535872...

Location: Global

Remote: 100%

Pay: $155,000 - $248,000. Non-US employees and contractors get +20%

In 1970, the pioneers of Cancun (Mexico) designed the initial city landscape using the supermanzana pattern. This design pattern is similar to the superblock design in Barcelona. But it is better in reducing noise of traffic thanks to “bended” blocks.

You can find them in the old areas of Cancun (downtown) on Google Maps.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/3VKzkBwz4GwX2p976?g_st=ic

Wouldn’t this mean that we should focus on writing more efficient code than before?

Especially in the startup space I saw companies building software with the hypothesis “users need the latest device for our product and they will get faster anyway so we don’t need optimize our code. Instead we deliver features on max speed skipping optimizations and wait until our users upgraded to newer devices during the coming 2-4 years”.

The challenge for international platforms/websites are the legal/business requirements per region and it boils down to costs to streamline translations.

Organizations split responsibilities by countries/regions. Local experts get hired to optimize content for their target markets. The back and forth between local subsidiaries/experts with centralized product development teams is more complex, slower and expensive. So you would rather create dedicated customer facing sites per region that are maintained by local teams who take care of location-specific differences (Netflix filtering, Google search results, etc.)

The bigger the org gets the harder a streamlined multi-language (often also multi-currency) business model gets and hence companies opt to geo-location instead of using header lang.

Probably, there are more points, but that’s what I have learned after building an international m-commerce platform that serves users in the EU, US and Mexico.

It is not a tech issue.

The challenge for international platforms/websites are the legal/business requirements per region and it boils down to costs to streamline translations.

Organizations split responsibilities by countries/regions. Local experts get hired to optimize content for their target markets. The back and forth between local subsidiaries/experts with centralized product development teams is more complex, slower and expensive. So you would rather create dedicated customer facing sites per region that are maintained by local teams who take care of location-specific differences (Netflix filtering, Google search results, etc.)

The bigger the org gets the harder a streamlined multi-language (often also multi-currency) business model gets and hence companies opt to geo-location instead of using header lang.

Probably, there are more points, but that’s what I have learned after building an international m-commerce platform that serves users in the EU, US and Mexico

Fun fact: Esso is pronounced as SO which is the German brand of the US company Standard Oil

Instead of building a website from scratch, you could use SoTrusty and create an order page with videos or photos of your products. 100% Google Lighthouse SEO, >90% Performance (depending on content) out of the box.

Here an example of a store in Germany: https://menu.sotrusty.com/item-una-feinschneiderei

What do you think about it? I appreciate any feedback. Thanks :)

Have you considered to start freelancing? You could build a personal brand as a specialist for an industry, tech stack or <niche of your choice> you feel passionate about and decide on your own which projects/clients you want to work.

I recently stumbled upon this again and I think that many things that the author predicted, actually happened, even accelerated since 2020. What do you think?