What do you think I should do with Nomad List?

If you created moderators for each city as other people have mentioned. Would really help increase content and quality of listings. Many of us have been in cities or areas for years. Think reddit or the the slack chat channels.

Add more photos to each city! I think it’d be really nice if users were able to share pics in an image gallery so that others could have something to look at while they’re checking out city stats.

Hey, it is great what you are doing with NomadList, i am happy that this site exists and i feel a great vibe around the nomad community. As i joined the Slack channels, i was happy on one side, but sad that all these resources were in a walled garden. I respect your work and i admit that i went through the payment process in order to reach the chat channel related to the country i am currently in, but it would be great if you could find a business model that allowed you to keep open the channels for sharing of information among nomads

a lot of what’s being suggested is already being tackled by the Teleport app which people should look into if they haven’t already.

I think a PlentyOfFish style of profiles would be helpful for more of us to collaborate together, arrange to meet etc is the next step

I also think that having a blog post that highlights what to do in each cities is a good idea. Also I like going to a city for a special local event, that would be cool to integrate that, maybe by using a calendar of national events. Something I always need to know is what is the cheapest way to travel from the airport. It’s always super expensive and the locals always know tricks about it.

I’d like to be able to choose the currency that the cost of living appears in, as my life is measured out in pounds sterling or euros. As it is it’s useful for comparing cities, but not too helpful if I want to measure against my budget. To do that I have to convert into my own currency.

Along the same lines as City Experts, if you had a wiki for each city, that could be helpful. People who have lived in the city could curate it and add stuff like a list of cool coffee shops with good internet, parks, attractions, fun things to do, different foods to try, or descriptions of the different parts of the city.

Newcommers on the slack channel (at least the one for Chiang Mai), tend to ask very similar questions. It could be helpful to be able to point them to a wiki page about the city. I know there is already some great basic information on each city on nomadlist but I think having a wiki page could be very useful.

I’m really enjoy this forum!

Here’s a totally off the wall suggestion… What about a dating/socialising section/mini app? For those of us that are single nomads, it is actually quite difficult to find potential partners who can have the same lifestyle… I see some of the people here who are travelling as couples (and families) so it obviously works. I would hate to meet someone I like and them not being able to go nomading with me.

Just a thought

Pieter,

nomadlist is awesome!

I would focus on content, links between contents, country details, visas, community, etc… Not in a never-ending cycle of adding new features that complicate the site-service. NOW, ITS VERY USEFULL.

All the best.

The site has become mission critical for many. Don’t forget that big decisions are made from what we see here.

Having said that, I’m sometimes un-easy about the “data” and results.

I think you need to make it more clear where the numbers and data originate, as much of it is extremely subjective. Without that, you may lose credibility.

I love the idea of offline community building! Good on your for that! Working in foreign countries, the vast majority of us want more ways to meet each other. In Prague, 1993 I had to become the advertising manager of the English newspaper to really get connected!! That was over 20 years ago and still there are great locations where we can not get beyond meeting people that were born in bred there. Meeting “locals” should always be a big priority over foreigners, but we do need support from each other.

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Hi Pieter,

Nomad List is awesome, thank you for making it! It might be cool if there were virtual nomad check-in centers upon arrival in the top 3 or top 5 nomad cities (Chiang Mai, Prague, etc.), with a mission to hook up newcomers with a couple of buddies/mentors, a free week at a coworking space, possibly a mailing address (which would be amazing), and a list of helpful/non-scammy realtors, apartment complexes, etc.

Add a Toggle to switch between high and low temperatures.

People who have never been to the desert (and I don’t just mean Dubai — Las Vegas is the highest-rated Nomad city in the US and that’s absolutely a desert) may not realize they need separate day clothes and night clothes because of the the extreme difference in temperature.

We need a wiki.

One central place that answers the questions each of us has when moving on to a new place:

• wifi
• sim cards
• housing
• food
• making friends
• visas
• ATMs
• etc.

I’m looking for visa information on Chaing Mai, and even though there’s a lot of posts about this already, it’s not easy to find the information I want. Once I find it, I want to make it easy for the next person to find it too!

By the way, thanks for all the tips guys/girls. I read EVERYTHING. And I write EVERYTHING down. I’m obviously a bit busy with running the list, chat, forum and all my other projects but that helps me prioritize the most important features, avoiding feature creep.

After I’ve finished my 12 startups in April, the speed of dev for Nomad List will get faster. Hiring dev’s is impossible yet, because the good ones cost $10,000/m+, so I can only do it myself now. Which is okay. Any help in promoting this revolution though is welcome

TL;DR I’m listening!!!

You should add some way to take into account current exchange rate, maybe a ranking of top devaluating currencies.

i.e. now it’s much cheaper to be in Japan with the devaluating Yen. Ukraine and Russia is also much much cheaper now. Would be great to be aware of this.

Pieter, there’s on question we are constantly asked in the Chiang Mai slack channel: “so I’m coming into town next week, where should I stay?”

There’s a clear and simple need there. We find ourselves repeating he same answers. No doubt this could and should be solved on nomad list

It doesn’t need anything complex like plugins to hotels.com etc. just a crowd sourced collection of ‘places to stay’ In this city with a simple vote function. That would help us easily work out where others like to stay when they visit this city. A map view might be useful, but that’s secondary requirement to the original problem.

Hi Pieter, great job with everything on here so far! I personally would love to see the main website expats use to sell items/ find apartments etc. for each city/country. Maybe users can quickly upvote or rate each one if they’ve used it in the past, or list an alternative one. Most people would assume its Craigslist, but in some cities that’s not the case. I live in Busan, South Korea for example and the most useful site is koreabridge.com. Having a mini database of these sites would definitely make this the ultimate tool IMO.

It would be great to have a list of the best places for currency exchange

I think what’s missing is the ability to have categorized lists of amenities for each city - like hotels, airbnbs, coffee shops, coworking spaces, etc. Let people comment on the amenities and vote them up/down. This would make rolling into a new city so much easier, it’d basically serve as a curated guidebook with comments. i.e. TripAdvisor but better

I think your original idea of doing guides for each city starting with the most popular ones like chang mai is a really good idea (don’t know if you did that, I couldn’t find) and will complement the purpose of the site I believe, you could do like the lonely planet online version but for digital nomads.

A guide with how to get everything set up once you arrive to a city (which sim to get, address of the coworking space, which district/area to stay to meet other digital nomads, if its worth to rent or buy a bike , etc , etc all laid out) as well as some things to do that might only interest digital nomads.

Maybe you could even crowd source such guides and let the people that helped you write them access to all the guides of other cities, for regular users you could sell the guides , with 200k visits per month I think you will sell a tone of guides too to maybe expand with further ideas (like in the future doing the digital nomad vending machines heard you said once haha ) .

Public profiles with a kickass design.
So people can show the world where they are right now, location based on last tweet, foursquare, manual input.
And a little help to communicate with taht person by offering a little help with the timezones.

Showing some images from the given location would be nice, also a map in the detail view would be nice.

More accurate cost of living. Maybe similar to Numbeo in how they show averages, highs and lows.

+1 for better profile pages. would love to know more about the other users eg where they are, where they have been, what they do for a living etc.

Link/coordinate housing in these places, it’s by far the greatest deterrent to actually visiting the places

A great profile page would be awesome. To show what we are currently working on (projects, startups and what not), where are we, and where we are heading next. This might increase the number of collaboration among nomads.

PS. If you want to add blog posts to certain locations, you can always give me a shout. You have Travelistly, at your disposal. It might not entirely be about nomad per se but a great source for inspiration for people who are interested. I can get all blog posts by cities or countries, very easily.

Help me become a nomad. I’d happily pay a couple grand to become one. I think there’s potential for you in targeting the masses of people who are not yet nomads but are interested.

Hi,

It would be nice to have an embedded video (like those you can find on Vimeo) presenting the city whenever we click on a listed one. It could help get a “feeling” of the city.

Maybe if profiles had a list of “cities you’ve visited” or if there were designated “experts” for certain cities. Right now the emphasis (on slack) seems to be on who’s there now, but the most knowledgeable people about a given city might not be there at the current moment and they might miss the discussion if they’re not following closely.

Let’s say I’m most knowledgeable about Tokyo, Ubud, and Austin. I could opt-in to be notified when somebody has a question related to those cities. Or if I’m trying to decide between two places, say Boracay and Ko Lanta, it would be cool if I could find people that have been to both.

Heres a quick brain-dump:

• link each location on the site to the relevant slack channel and forum tag(s)
• add coastal/inland info (some people insist on beaches)
• obtain metrics to offer the user a choice between budget and flashpackers. Some countries have a huge difference in costs from living like a local to living with western standards.
• allow bloggers to submit posts relating to certain locations
• use your email list and get that newsletter going
• link to wikipedia’s various articles regarding the visa rules for that country
• list which low cost carriers service that city (or link to something like http://www.whichairline.com/)
• check-ins pulled from facebook/twitter/foursquare last-seen geo data
• companion site to allow users to submit their fave nomad-friendly accommodation locations - we all know that this is a popular request as well as a huge logistical nightmare but if it is crowdsourced and dumbed down, the affiliate revenue itself would be worth the hassle.

Not to sound too self-serving, but I’m the co-founder of TypeEngine, which is a service designed for web developers/designers to make native iOS and Android subscription apps. I could easily see a companion NomadList digital magazine app.

I’m not sure if this is way too ambitious, but I’d love to see a Nomad List app similar to TrailWallet, to keep track of your income and expenses, but with the option to anonimously link the app to the site, to have more data collection in real time, and so that visitors could get a chance to see a single person’s cost breakdown (with daily, monthly, yearly statistics). That way you could see more easily how much is the cost of living for different types of nomads (a party animal, a lebowski, a hermit who never goes out…).

Also, I second @DanielGenser 's suggestion about blog articles. Each city could have a section with a weekly or monthly blog article about a nomad’s experience while living there (specifically written for NomadList). I’m not a nomad yet but I’d be more than happy to contribute with an article once I’m on the road and I’m sure there’s lots of nomads out there willing to do the same just to help us begginers!

I think expanding on the information given for each city would be a good start. Cost of living is very subjective, and no one lives in exactly similar ways. The more perspectives and stories that can be read that can qualify the data you present on each city, the richer and more meaningful the data can be.

For instance, links out to stories, blog articles, and such about people’s experience in each city. Helping people understand how a place feels.