In addition the obvious language barrier, different culture and law/regulations are the biggest difficulties I can think of.
I don't know about the failed cases, but a handful of big companies tried to expand to Korea and succeeded (e.g. AirBnB, Uber, League of Legends, Clash of Clans).
I still wonder how they managed to expand to Korea. Maybe someone like me reached out to them?
Anyway, I thought medium, smaller companies or even indie game developers may want to hire someone like me and hopefully grow together.
Thank you for the advice. I have been thinking about setting up a personal website (even registered a domain) but kept procrastinating. I'll start building one today.
Impressive! I can't wait to play with the finished version of this. Is making such AI in Starcraft 2 impossible? This could be much more fun if it were in SC2.
How expensive is it to host a server with high bandwidth image sharing app such as this? I want to create a 'HotOrNot' kind of web app in my country and always wanted to know how much it would cost to run a image server.