“I reached basic profitability, matching an average developer salary here, about 10 months ago, and since then I’ve been improving my projects.”
The startup scene splits into VC moonshots and hustle bros selling courses about courses. He runs two small tools from Cape Town and stops at enough. A local developer salary is a fraction of a Bay Area rent. The low cost of living does most of the work, and the honesty about it is the useful part.