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Hacker Paradise: Porto, Portugal 🍷🇵🇹

Name: Lisbon, Portugal
Start: 2016-09
End: 2016-09
Location: Lisbon, Portugal

5 June – 27 August 2016 · $725 / week

Private rooms

Coworking included

Flights not included

Attendance
35-40

Accommodation: Private rooms
Housing: Apartments & Hotels
Coworking
SIM card
Talks
Workshops

Attendance: 35
Capacity: 40
Price: $725 / week or $1,980 / month
Minimum stay: 2 weeks

Host

Iskender Piyale-Sheard

Trip Facilitator and teacher, May be seen wearing a horse head, Remote as fuck

56 Participants

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Demographics

Gender

Men: 39 70%

Women: 15 27%

Unspecified: 2 4%

Field

Developer: 37 66%

Designer: 3 5%

Entrepreneur: 2 4%

Writer: 2 4%

Youtuber: 2 4%

Community Manager: 1 2%

Data Analyst: 1 2%

Founder: 1 2%

Market Research: 1 2%

Product Manager: 1 2%

Project Manager: 1 2%

Social Media Consultant: 1 2%

Student: 1 2%

Teacher: 1 2%

Unspecified: 1 2%

Nationality

United States: 25 45%

The Netherlands: 5 9%

Canada: 3 5%

France: 3 5%

United Kingdom: 3 5%

Belgium: 2 4%

Croatia: 2 4%

Germany: 2 4%

India: 2 4%

Argentina: 1 2%

Australia: 1 2%

Italy: 1 2%

New Zealand: 1 2%

Norway: 1 2%

Romania: 1 2%

Russia: 1 2%

Uruguay: 1 2%

Unspecified: 1 2%

109 Reviews

4.9

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Whitney Perkins

Palermo 🇮🇹 Porto 🇵🇹

Hacker Paradise surpassed my expectations for my first workcation in every way. This program is ideal for people who are striving to pursue success in their career, but also have a passion for traveling.

Quickly after meeting the participants, I joked that I had found “my people”.
My people = ambitious, independent, outgoing, adventurous individuals who love to travel and experience new cultures

The facilitators are wonderful individuals who do a fantastic job at coordinating and executing both educational and social events. The first day I met Dale and Spencer I immediately felt included in the HP community and they have a unique ability to connect with everyone.

The second I returned home I was ready to join HP again and will be going to Italy for my second trip in a few weeks.

Warning: Hacker Paradise is highly addictive!

9 years ago

Jay Meistrich

Ubud 🇮🇩 Jeju 🇰🇷 Porto 🇵🇹 Chiang Mai 🇹🇭 Barcelona 🇪🇸 Berlin 🇩🇪 Tallinn 🇪🇪 Chiang Mai 🇹🇭 Da Nang 🇻🇳

I've been to Hacker Paradise 8 times because I love it so much. It's always a great group of people, and I get to explore a city I wouldn't normally go to. The organizers are great, and super helpful. One of them even taught Korean classes while we were in Jeju, which was incredible. I love it and will be back again soon!

9 years ago

Sibjeet Mahapatra

Jeju 🇰🇷 Porto 🇵🇹

This is no hyperbole: Hacker Paradise has been one of the most productive and enjoyable experiences of my life. As a first-time nomad, I was nervous about balancing productivity and fun while traveling abroad, but the HP community provides a perfect balance of structure and spontaneity. Some highlights from my time in Porto and Jeju: port wine tasting in port caves, pot lucks with homemade food from half a dozen countries, weekend trips to the beach, swimming in rock pools, climbing South Korea's tallest mountain, experiencing a Korean sauna for the first time, and good old Goofy Foot (need I say more)...

Of course, what really makes the whole thing work are the people -- from Spencer and Dale who are absolutely amazing at keeping the ship running and setting the tone, to all the other attendees who are invariably 1) working on cool projects, 2) willing to share their knowledge and insight, 3) always down for a pint after a long day at the co-working space. If you're on the fence, don't be: just do it!

10 years ago

Zach Waterfield

Lima 🇵🇪 Porto 🇵🇹

After a phenomenal 4 weeks in Portugal, I have returned to join Hacker Paradise Lima. I've had an amazing experience at Hacker Paradise, the people are great, the locations are exciting, and the adventures are real. Spencer and Dale do an amazing job running the program. The community aspect is impressive, with a lot of diversity in knowledge and expertise, so there are always interesting people to talk to and learn from. Hacker Paradise puts a lot of effort into getting everyone involved in the local tech community which makes for a much better experience. Overall its a great community with awesome events and even better organizers!

10 years ago

Jenn Vargas

Jeju 🇰🇷 Porto 🇵🇹

Hacker Paradise is my family away from home. It's a fantastic opportunity to meet amazing people, work from cool locations, and constantly be inspired by people doing cool things who are always willing to share their knowledge. And eat a lot of dessert.

10 years ago

Lori Tillery

Lima 🇵🇪 Buenos Aires 🇦🇷 Jeju 🇰🇷 Porto 🇵🇹

Currently on my fourth trip with Hacker Paradise. The top four things that keep me coming back are:

1. Program organization - Facilitators Spencer and Dale are work relentlessly to make sure accommodations and co-working spaces meet the needs of the participants. If there are issues, for example with internet speeds or housing problems, they are on top of the problem right away, sometimes before we even notice it happening. They are responsive and understand the needs of digital nomads because they both been there.

2. Participants - Hacker Paradise does a great job of selecting people for their programs. Most everyone I've met during my trips have been dedicated, accepting, interesting, friendly, curious, and just generally good travelers. They work hard and yes, they party hard too but it's all great fun. I've made friends for life here. You can judge how great the group is and how addicting this lifestyle is by that fact that so many people either extend their stay or wish they could because the group is so hard to leave.

3. Diversity - Not only is there a diversity in gender but also in age and in career paths. Usually Hacker implies developer but in reality there are people from a number of different jobs here and the facilitators seem to put emphasis on choosing people from variety of backgrounds.

4. Lastly, Location - HP has gone to places this year that I've wanted to visit and the program allows me time to really get to know places with other people who are interested in seeing them too.

10 years ago

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Iskender Piyale-Sheard

56 Participants

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109 Reviews 4.9

Hacker Paradise surpassed my expectations for my first workcation in every way

I've been to Hacker Paradise 8 times because I love it so much

This is no hyperbole: Hacker Paradise has been one of the most productive and enjoyable experiences of my life

After a phenomenal 4 weeks in Portugal, I have returned to join Hacker Paradise Lima

Hacker Paradise is my family away from home

Currently on my fourth trip with Hacker Paradise

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