Can I Work Here, week 1: I was tired of having 10 tabs open every time I picked my next destination, so I built this
It can't just be me who sits with 10 tabs open, comparing destinations across cost, wifi, visa, weather, constantly holding it all in my head to decide where to go next.
Last month, doing this exercise for the millionth time in Bir, Himachal Pradesh 🇮🇳, I decided to just build the thing I'd actually use.
Day 1 was just finding a domain which turned out to be its own tiring little adventure. Found one I liked for a non-insane price, committed for $37, and that was it for that day.
Then I went back to deciding my next destination the old way, moved there, and a few days later, sitting in a new apartment with mountain views on two sides, storm outside the window, I finally sat down and built the thing.
The next few days were pure flow state. Build, test, tweak, make it more accurate, think of what's missing, repeat.
Eventually I had something live on the domain I'd already bought, and I couldn't wait to share it.
I posted it in a few places first, a few friends, Nomad Summit Telegram group. Quiet, polite reactions. Nothing that told me much.
Then I dropped it in a Bali nomad co-working WhatsApp group. And that's when it actually hit. People liked it immediately. Someone from Indonesia sent me API specs, unprompted, to help me build the next feature. Someone else asked for seasonality data, something I hadn't even thought of yet.
A Thailand group followed soon after. Same energy, but sharper. Someone went deep enough to find real inaccuracies in the data and offered to send me a full list. Fair, honest, exactly the kind of feedback that actually makes something better.
It was surreal. Watching something I built completely alone get pulled apart and built up by strangers across the world, all within hours of posting it.
And some of the best feedback came from people I've met on the road over the years. Travel friendships, the kind where you meet someone for a few days in one country and then you're both elsewhere, maybe you'll cross paths again, maybe not. A few of them showed up in these threads with real, thoughtful feedback. Good to be reminded those connections are still there, even scattered across time zones.
Can I work Here if you want to try it. Would love to hear what you think!
