Come and live a dream lifestyle overlooking a huge and deserted beach in west Bali, Indonesia for 30-60 days, in a very friendly traditional Balinese Hindu village. We sponsor you, all expenses paid (including travel), plus some pocket money. You get your own private bungalow overlooking the sea on a large, private, quiet, grassed property with pool. Full time chef and all other chores done by three other full time staff.

We are aiming at a time window between early June and mid-August to provide you some flexibility. If things work out after 30-60 days, then you become an equity partner and we work out terms. We likely continue our collaboration by distance (with perhaps regular “meet-ups” in Bali!).

We are two experienced entrepreneurs, now living in Bali. Jon is originally from the UK, past 15 years in Hong Kong. I am originally from New Zealand, 16 years in Japan. My public profile is viewable at http://www.linkedin.com/in/hamishmacd

We have each built working community websites from concept to completion with teams of coders, but we are not coders ourselves. We ARE very experienced at business execution. We want to find a good match as a third partner to be the lead back-end developer of a “local” global site. Our competitive advantage is a scalable business model based on our experience in global sales. “Local” still hasn’t been done well on the web – we think we know a way to do it.

You need experience in databases, scalable hosting, and creating clean & functional user experiences. Ideally some Web 2.0 / Ajax bells and whistles experience too. You will be able to choose the appropriate technologies to work with. Open Source tools preferred.

We understand you may have some prior work or consulting to keep going. You can work on that as needed, with the proviso that enough time and energy be dedicated to our project to create a working prototype that Jon and I can begin to sell on a small scale in September. We are want to start limited public expansion by November.

If this sounds like an adventure that appeals to you, with exciting work you are in charge of, and the chance of substantial payoff down the track, write me at [email protected] At minimum, you are guaranteed to have a great time and an exotic life experience you will always treasure!