<story><title>Nerd Fort</title><url>http://nerdfort.com/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasonkester</author><text>I registered geekbeach.org (no site there) a few years back with the hope of one day doing this same thing in some random tropical setting.&lt;p&gt;I wonder how many people (aside from me of course) would be happy to know about a spot on Nusa Lembongan with guaranteed fast internet, reliable power, a nice slice of white sand and a really nice reef break just outside the lagoon.&lt;p&gt;Would anybody here take the effort to weasel a working holiday to such a place?  Any SV startups that would pick up the whole shop and set up on the beach for a month or so?&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s been raining here in the North of England for six months straight.  If I get enough love for the idea here, I might just have to book a flight and start scouting locations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pault</author><text>You have to be careful, as most places will have strict regulations against working while on a tourist visa.  Thailand won&apos;t even let you volunteer, and they will deport you if they catch you.  If you have anything that looks like an office, and you have &quot;tourists&quot; in there hacking, you could get in a lot of trouble.  Don&apos;t know what the rules are in Indonesia, but you should definitely talk to a lawyer first.&lt;p&gt;Having said that, I&apos;ve been in Thailand for a while, and the same idea keeps popping into my head.  If I were bootstrapping a company, I would much rather fly with my partners out here for 6 months than try to rent an office in SF.  I can see one major problem with the execution though:  people are going to get beach fever for the first month or so, so don&apos;t expect productivity to be very high.  You might want to schedule a few weeks of partying in, just to get it out of their systems.</text></comment>
<story><title>Nerd Fort</title><url>http://nerdfort.com/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasonkester</author><text>I registered geekbeach.org (no site there) a few years back with the hope of one day doing this same thing in some random tropical setting.&lt;p&gt;I wonder how many people (aside from me of course) would be happy to know about a spot on Nusa Lembongan with guaranteed fast internet, reliable power, a nice slice of white sand and a really nice reef break just outside the lagoon.&lt;p&gt;Would anybody here take the effort to weasel a working holiday to such a place?  Any SV startups that would pick up the whole shop and set up on the beach for a month or so?&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s been raining here in the North of England for six months straight.  If I get enough love for the idea here, I might just have to book a flight and start scouting locations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drinian</author><text>Yes, I&apos;ve done this. I would add that it&apos;s also very easy to get at least unlimited 2G Internet access in Thailand or Malaysia, especially Thailand. Bali/Indonesia seem to suck for connectivity as there&apos;s a serious bandwidth shortage out of the country. There was a previous attempt on HN at doing this in an organized fashion that didn&apos;t take off a few years back.&lt;p&gt;Also, there&apos;s this, in Central America: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cocovivo.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.cocovivo.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;My best advice is that you just book a ticket to Bangkok or Singapore, and start hanging out with people in hostels. It&apos;s excellent.</text></comment>