RoamRank

City Guides for Digital Nomads

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City Guides for Digital Nomads

83 followers

City guides and location insights for digital nomads and remote workers. Showcasing the best neighbourhhoods to stay, cost of living, wifi speeds and more.

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Launch tags:Global Nomad•Travel•Remote Work

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Hey Product Hunt! I'm Robi and this is my side project RoamRank RoamRank is (another) collection of city guides for digital nomads and aims to be the most comprehensive and accurate dataset freely available online (still a lot of work to do on that front). It's completely free to use - no paywall or sign up required. It outlines typical monthly costs for digital nomads and suggests the best areas to stay in a particular city. This was a problem I was keen to solve for myself after being a full time digital nomad for 4+ years but having no easy way to know which area of a new city I should be staying in. It also surfaces useful info such as typical median wifi speeds for cities (and neighbourhoods within) compiled from real world Ookla speed tests, when and when not to visit and also personal recommendations of places to work, party and relax from myself and a network of digital nomads on the ground all over the world (recommendations always welcome). It has a decent filtering system (similar to Nomadlist) to allow users to drill into the data and find the best locations for their critiera - still a lot of work to do on this though. It's by no means "finished" - I doubt it will ever be "finished" cos the dataset is constantly changing and can always improve - plus I am working on adding new locations, features and data to the site every day. Any feedback, suggestions, improvments or critiques taken in good faith and thank you for the support :-) Robi

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2yr ago

*applauding in digital nomad* alsooo.. are you planning to make a feature for nomads/experts/locals to add or prove information? I've checked out Buenos Aires (where i live now) and might have a thing or two to add 🙌

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2yr ago

RoamRank

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@listopadova - Hey Evgeniya. Yes! Still working out the best way to do that. We have a few nomads around the globe currently who contribute but i am looking into making this a far slicker process. So verified nomads can have profiles and verified badges on the platform (name, photo, links to their bios, sites etc) and almost take "ownership" of a location. This not only helps give credibility and improve the data across the site but also helps them build their own reputation as nomads / bloggers etc. If you would like to be kept up to date on that feel free to join the mailing list at he bottom of all our destination pages. In the meantime if you want to help flesh out Buenos Aires and make it better feel free to drop me an email at robi @ roamrank.com :-)

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2yr ago

This is awesome Robi, really interested in this, I think it could be super helpful for peoplep looking for travel advice from REAL people. Love that it's open to everyone and not paid, too, to get access to all the data.

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2yr ago

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@jamie_if - Thanks Jamie! It's been really fun to build :-)

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2yr ago

This has been years in the making. As an early proponent of RW I am stoked to see it live. There are many easter eggs in here. Robi is a serial builderpreneur as is incredibly passionate about the data. Great work

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2yr ago

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@sacha_fournier 🫡

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2yr ago

NFRT

personally, some of these prices seem a bit out of touch with reality, making some guides misleading. check out your guide for Dubrovnik, Croatia. i'm really skeptical about the numbers presented.

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2yr ago

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Maker

@macakmacak - Yeah I totally agree. You can see a lot of places are missing cost data - that's because I won't add data if I am not 100% sure of it's accuracy (and also because in a lot of cases that data simply doesn't exist anywere). This is an issue that affects almost all platforms like this and isn't an easy one to solve - even the biggest cost of living resources (like Numbeo) don't have full living costs datasets for a lot of places. But yes it needs to be much clearer when some places are missing data. Maybe I should try and "fill in the gaps" with medians based on similar locations and geos? Or use crowd sourcing to allow people to submit data and help build out the dataset over time? Thanks for the feedback :-)

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2yr ago

Useful, as someone who is no longer in the PAYE world I like to travel when I want... this website will definitely help!

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2yr ago

@brian_murphy9 😂😂😂

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2yr ago

Wow this is great Robi! Perfect for us digital nomads looking for our next destination! Looking forward to seeing where you take it!

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2yr ago

RoamRank

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@luke_clarke1 - Thanks Luke, yeah hopefully people find it useful

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2yr ago

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