1. bluekite2000 Nov 13, 2022

   Congrats on the launch. Is there an email I can contact you for private questions?
2. bluekite2000 Oct 14, 2022

   You missed out on Saigon by picking Hanoi though :)
3. bluekite2000 Oct 29, 2021

   I doubt it (even though I run a dev shop w/ Vietnam based engineers). US companies will continue hiring US based engineers. And when Covid is over people will go to the office again.
4. bluekite2000 Oct 12, 2021

   Also wanted to add in developed countries (and by corollary, big cities) it is very hard to make friends once you are an adult. When I lived in Vietnam it is 10x easier to date/make friends/get involved in the local community (vs NYC,LA or SF)
5. bluekite2000 Sep 1, 2021

   East/West can work well as well. I have a team in Vietnam with USA clients and we just do 1h overlap per day. Too many meetings may not be a good thing.
6. bluekite2000 May 17, 2021

   I am here in Vietnam (and was in California a few months ago) and the difference is day and night. Lockdown is super strict here. Everyone wears mask (even when it is only a few cases out of millions). It is a 21 day mandatory quarantine (if you get approved to get in). The results speak for itself.
7. bluekite2000 Nov 3, 2020

   Wait till Asia's borders open. The fanout will go transpacific. Especially in Southeast Asia.
8. bluekite2000 Aug 8, 2020

   It depends on how you manage the workload I think. I am based in California (and so is my client) and we have a team in Hanoi, Vietnam. We get a lot done as many tasks are done asynchronously. Plus we can deploy when the users in US are sleeping :)
9. bluekite2000 Jul 23, 2020

   A few years ago I had to commute from Orange county to Manhattan Beach. It takes 1 hour to get to the office (leaving at 5:15am in the morning) and 1.5 hour to get home (leaving at 4pm). By the time I got home I felt dead. It was a 30 mile trip. So to me the long commute is what makes WFH convincing.
10. bluekite2000 Jun 29, 2020

    >Trust in the government is at an all time high. Just to clarify you mean trust in the government to handle the pandemic right?
11. bluekite2000 Jun 23, 2020

    Do you use a service for bookkeeping?
12. bluekite2000 Jun 23, 2020

    What do you mean set up correctly? And how does 112K turn into 40K taxable?
13. bluekite2000 Jun 12, 2020

    Any tech dev/company in Bay Area want to set up shop in Vietnam? And live a more balanced life (in terms of dating, traveling, eating good food, etc)? I can help be your local point of contact.
14. bluekite2000 May 28, 2020

    I am in LA and a friend tells me he can't hire good in house engineers locally. When I suggest Vietnam/etc he indeed mentioned tradeoffs regarding timeshift/culture. I guess you can't have it both ways.
15. bluekite2000 May 22, 2020

    I would replace Nhatrang with Danang. Danang is the next big coastal tech hub now.
16. bluekite2000 May 21, 2020

    Yeah I know a bunch of QA companies in Vietnam. How did your company find them? I am Vietnamese American myself and have spent a lot of time in the region. It is an amazing place w/ a hungry yet educated youth population, great food, beautiful beaches and quite fast internet. Surprised not many American companies heading there to recruit.
17. bluekite2000 May 4, 2020

    Who are your typical clients/industries? And how long is a typical engagement? And why per hour vs per project pricing?
18. bluekite2000 Feb 25, 2020

    Anyone interested in Vietnam? I spent tons of time there (Ho Chi Minh city and Hanoi) recruiting Vietnamese software developers recently for my own projects and am seriously thinking of parlaying that skillset into helping US companies setting up in house engineering sites there.
19. bluekite2000 Apr 24, 2019

    Where do you go to get the box made? What is its cost? And what is shipping cost (for ex within GA) per box? Does shipping cost increase by weight too?
20. bluekite2000 Oct 17, 2018

    What group in Vietnam? I can't find their channel

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