World's best city guides for digital nomads & remote workers
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World's best city guides for digital nomads & remote workers
WeNomad
World's best city guides for digital nomads & remote workers
Hi All!
I've been working remotely and traveling the world (17+ countries) for the last five years. WeNomad was created out of extreme frustration with the unreliable and sometimes fabricated information on the leading site in the "city guides for remote workers" space.
I've grown tired of scouring the internet and forums for insightful information, so instead, I assembled a talented team to compile everything you need to discover and move to cities you'll love.
How We Compare To Other Sites:
There are roughly two types of websites in the digital nomad city guide space: 1. The leading site which is written by robots with almost no human input and extremely limited QA / fact-checking of the information 2. Long, blog post style guides with limited data, and lots of anecdotal information from the writer
We believe that the best city guides are a combination of being extremely data-driven, with lots of human-driven content from people who have lived in that specific place, and with an abundance of outbound links to expert-written articles on specific topics (i.e. best restaurants, coworking, female friendly, LGBTQ+ friendly in a specific city).
So we've created our guides in this hybrid format.
Unique Wifi Data Points:
Additionally, as anyone who has worked remotely while traveling knows, wifi reliability/outages is arguably a more (or at least equally) important metric than wifi speeds.
But finding information on wifi reliability can be extraordinarily difficult, especially in cities where digital nomading isn't popular.
This is why we've manually researched and created a specific grade for wifi reliability to go along with speed data.
This is one of many unique data points that you'll find on the site.
We Would Love Your Feedback!
This is the first version of our website and we'd love your feedback on how we can improve it. Please be kind though :).
Is there any data that looks incorrect? Any ideas for product additions? Anything else we should try to improve? Please let us know! We'd love to hear from you.
Contributors:
A lot of awesome people have contributed to this project! Many are listed in the maker section.
@naz_avo1 Hey Naz! Great question.
The short answer is: No fabricated information, no paywall, more accurate data, more detailed guides, and more reviews.
I covered this a bit in my intro post (which I'll paste in here) but I'll elaborate a bit more:
"WeNomad was created out of extreme frustration with the unreliable and sometimes fabricated information on the leading site in the "city guides for remote workers" space.
How We Compare To Other Sites:
There are roughly two types of websites in the digital nomad city guide space: 1. The leading site which is written by robots with almost no human input and extremely limited QA / fact-checking of the information 2. Long, blog post style guides with limited data, and lots of anecdotal information from the writer
We believe that the best city guides are a combination of being extremely data-driven, with lots of human-driven content from people who have lived in that specific place, and with an abundance of outbound links to expert-written articles on specific topics (i.e. best restaurants, coworking, female friendly, LGBTQ+ friendly in a specific city)."
To elaborate a bit more:
After traveling for the last 5+ years, I've just learned that I can't trust NomadList as a reliable source of information. It's so automation/engineer driven that a lot of the data ends up being wildly inaccurate and clearly isn't being QA'd by a human.
One small example of this is that Vodafone (a cell phone carrier that doesn't operate in the United States) is listed as the best cell phone carrier for some U.S. cities.
An example of purely fabricated information is the "reviews score" which controls the order of the cities on the homepage. It's deceptively displayed as a user review score but users can't actually rate cities. If you click on a city and look at the top right you can see this score and the fake number of reviews listed.
The greater issue for me is that when a site is filled with fake and inaccurate information, it becomes hard to know what information can be trusted and what information can't be. And thus the whole site becomes pretty useless.
My goal is to build a site that people can trust and rely on.
If you have other questions/feedback/thoughts - would love to hear them!
This answer sounds pretty enough but collecting the information manually and reaching the accurate information consistently will be difficult. I think it is important to make users feel that the information is correct and collected manually. Cause you say you built this for not trusting the robots. Great product anyway! Congrats!
@naz_avo1 @hey_fk Agreed! The team (tagged on the product) has been heads down working on this since about December and can attest to the complications and time involved with trying to consistently be accurate with all information.
We believe it's a strong first version (from an accuracy standpoint) and the hope is that with feedback and more reviews from users we can continue to fine-tune and improve the accuracy of everything.
Thanks for taking the time to check out the product! 🙏
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