I might have phrased that poorly. I mean plenty of jobs outside the US have greatly increased salaries in 2021, which was a ripple effect of remote work/globalization. I was looking at a 25%-160% salary increase back while I was job hunting this year.
It used to be that the biggest barrier to hiring outside a country was that it was less effective to have them work remotely 100% of the time. But now it's practically the same thing. Some companies are getting bargains, others are just using it to hire the best out of other countries.
Can you clarify why you have no employees/outsource/freelancer/etc ?
I would want to focus on that because it looks like you could invest something like 10k/mo (or ~5k/mo if you offshore) for some time and actually have less work to do in the future - the features will already be build, forever.
1.I spent all the money so far on buying machines and hardware infrastructure. I can slow down on hardware purchases now.
2. The fulfillment side of things is a bit of a mess, its a mix of my SQL database and my email functioning as the ground truth datastore. It makes it tough to hand off to an employee for the fulfillment. I think I really just need to do a low code Trello based workflow for fulfillment in the meantime. Then build those features later.
* Starting engineering at FAANG/other large companies
* Management at startup
In my experience, in case of large companies, if you go well on the interviews for a higher role (senior/mgmnt) you may hear "we like you but you don't have experience working at this scale". This doesn't mean you don't get an offer, just that it may not be as high as expectations.
Adding to your list:
* Checking crunchbase to see which companies recently raised money -> most of them start hiring immediatelly after and there are thousands of them
* If the company is not a giant, FAANG like, and you know some of their stack (by reading blog posts and such) you can contribute to some OSS they use and bring that up on your resume/interview. This is more spearfishing than throwing a net, but it helps if you have known 'targets'