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Agreed, although I find a big disconnect between what I'm genuinely interested in and the start-up scene here in London/Europe and turned down a few startup offers ultimately for that reason. May be naive but with a visa but there is generally much more exciting opportunity (purely around startups) in US and SV in general - and the visa is what I'm missing and grad school would deliver.


Oh, ok. Have you reached out to any US-based startups that you are interested in? Perhaps you can convince them they need a remote European team to help them expand or give them more off-hours support from a different time zone.


This is an absolutely great idea - I'll get on it


What debt?


Student loans, unless, of course, you got an entirely free ride to Harvard.


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Going back to the idea of the Bay Area (which is somewhere I believe I will end up somehow), will it help me a lot to be in the country? Could anyone manage to get anything done bombing it to the valley on a tourist visa? What would you do if you were in my situation?

Apologies for the long post, it's a situation that I'm really questioning and struggling to answer. The tuned-in wisdom of you guys on HN would help a lot!


You seem to be keen on startups, have you explored startup schools/incubators?


I have - infact I'm just at the end of going through one now


This would be a pleasure - send it my way (with a brief explanation of the project)!


Sure. Drop me an email at jamesstirrat.com and let's talk.


Great idea. In the best spirit, any horrendously designed OS projects that you have in mind?


I built our local python community's website and to be honest I have no idea about what all is to be considered while designing a page.

The only thing I kept in mind was that almost all our members were using really bad 2g connections and so the site had to be super lightweight.

Anything you can help with/tell us to improve would go a long way.

https://www.pyjaipur.org/ https://github.com/PyJaipur/PyJaipur/tree/master/website


> Anything you can help with/tell us to improve would go a long way.

My suggestion would be to make it mobile friendly if they were using 2G.

Also, take a look at Brutalist Web Design for lightweight inspiration.


Hey! Haven't used blender per se but is very similar to what I have used, and it's free. Shoot me an email at me@jamesstirrat.com and let's get started.


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