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You've proven my point. If you had money on a tree, you'd do it, but as you don't (as far as I know!) you won't.

I would love to have a basic income, or an endless supply or money and be able to work on what I want, when I want. At the moment I'm not quite there, so have to find the odd day or two per week to work on more interesting 'stuff' than paying bills.

Although he's coming across as throwing his toys out of the pram, he's completely right.

This was obvious from the beginning when Medium opened the floodgates.

There is definitely room for a writing application that brings together original good articles from both professional and non-professional writers, a bit like Blendle[1] but more open.

1: https://launch.blendle.com/

That's it. Everyone is too busy trying to make money, which is fair enough. Even open source to an extent. What's the first thing programmers say when someone says how do I get a programming job and earn loads of cheddar writing apps? 'Do some open source and get it on your CV'.

No one is going to build this stuff unless it has some sort of personal gain for them. There's nothing wrong with that at all, it's just the way things work.

Really interesting, thanks. I will look through the work you're doing

This is interesting. I'm in this sector to an extent, and Accor Europe are our biggest source of revenue.

Not quite in the same vertical as One Fine Stay (we're venue and conference space) but nonetheless it's good to see a large chain finally realising that MICE needs to move online to continue to be successful.

This is the trouble for me using Gitlab.com. Feels like there is a lot of 'n+1' going on in the background. I'm sure there aren't, but it feels like a Rails app that is suffering from that.

Other than that it's great. I've moved nearly everything over from GitHub

Your answers have helped me out many a time on stack overflow. I live in Reading, and would love to get you a beer sometime. Wonder how many other HN readers are in Berkshire

These are excellent.

I don't use Python that often so something like this is perfect to refresh each time and to avoid doing anything unidiomatic.

'Learn X in Y' is also a useful site for this sort of thing.

So what happens now? Can myself and my LTD company claim asylum elsewhere?

Yep I'm registered in the UK as well. I'm not entirely sure how it will affect us. We have around 2000 users. Nothing out of the ordinary stored or any messaging service.

Where did you go, out of interest?

I'm in the UK and weighing up options.

That is brilliant, top work.

Do you put your money where your mouth is? Place bets that your system pops out?

Edit: Roughly how many visitors do you get, monthly?

I went for Sendgrid. Very happy with it so far, pricing is great as well.

Easy to use, easy to setup, sane configuration for things like domains and DNS.

I know what you're talking about, I'm Vat registered and do business across the EU.

You're correct though, I misunderstood your question, it seems you're not even at that stage yet. You should really talk to an accountant, not HN. They will tell you exactly what you need to be doing.

Doing Vattable business with other EU countries is a pain. You will need whether each customer is vat registered in their particular country and either charge Vat or not based upon that.

Are you doing business to business sales, or business to customer?

Check chrisdew's answer above. It just doesn't work like that in the UK, or most places in the EU. If it was a totally different company, doing a totally different type of business, then you could argue the case that it was nothing to do with it. You would still have to pay income tax on any money you remitted into the UK though from your US or other earnings abroad.

In much the same way as the US treasury want's a piece of US citizens worldwide earnings, I believe.

You really do not want to mess with HMRC in the UK. They will chew you up and spit you out without a care in the world if you don't play by the rules.

This threw me for a while as well!

This only really works for people that aren't already setup as a company though.

You can't just open a new company in another country and expect to start moving your revenue to it, it just doesn't work like that. For instance, I'm registered in the UK and would have a tough time telling HMRC 'oh that's my US company, nothing to do with you'. It's a completely different problem if you already run a business and want to open a US branch. That's the same for pretty much anyone in the EU.

I think that needs to be made more clear in the schpiel.

In what way?

You deal with them by using the tax rules that are set out, and buy getting an accountant to make sure you are adhering to them.

Any issues that arise about revenue if you have to start charging vat are due to your pricing, not the Vat rules.

I always wonder with things like this, when will we be able (with an online business) to essentially say that your business has no fixed abode, and therefore you won't be paying any country any tax.

If everyone was using bitcoin or some other anonymous currency it would be pretty straightforward assuming that was how you took payments.

Your only trouble would be remitting money into your own tax jurisdiction - but then you may not have one of those either, assuming your were floating about the world.

Nice, I'll take a look.

I just added Gitlab as a new remote, and pushed. Easy as that. Keeps the entire repo history. I then just removed my old Github remotes.

I've moved all my private repos to Gitlab based on the chat on here and other places recently RE Github, Gitlab, and other solutions.

I'm very happy overall, the interface is great. It's a bit slower than github currently (the web interface) as I'm using the online version rather than self hosted, but apart from that it's really bloody good.

I'll be recommending it to others going forward and using it for all new repos that I want hosted.

I don't think they have enough self produced shows to make it worthwhile pumping just that content all over the world. People pay because they want the whole lot. Probably easier for Netflix to cut them off, rather than try and sell them a lesser product.

As an aside, I think 'Netflix Original' is a bit of a misleading title. Most of the Netflix Original shows (at least on the UK version) weren't actually Netflix 'originals'.

I don't think the author has thought this through.

If they don't have the licence to show something in a particular place, then they must at least show that they're actively trying to stop people in that region accessing the content. Which is what they're doing.

No point in throwing toys from the pram.

My main issue with Product Hunt is that most of the products are so trivial that it almost seems like a parody site.

A sample from right now:

'The funniest dog name generator ever'

'Fast and easy way of collecting email addresses'

'Finally, an emoji keyboard for the modern desktop'

Don't people have more interesting things to do with their time, or try to create more interesting, useful products?

Now thats a service!

I may even try it...

That is quite cool. The others mentioned below are good as well, but all have a fairly clunky and web based interface.

I suppose I'm looking for a 'Ok Google, what can I make with peas, a poussin, and half an empty can of Doctor Pepper?'

Now that would be cool.

Great idea. Iterate on it.

I've always wanted to make something like this, for when you've got some stuff in the fridge but don't know what to make.

Input: "Eggs, carrots, beef, whatever"

Output: Some tasty looking recipes by rating.

I work like this when I can. Sit still, thinking, sometimes with my eyes shut for at least 20 minutes. I'll be thinking about the best way to solve a problem, then will 'wake up' write a couple of lines of code, and carry on.

Sometimes I'll spend the whole day just thinking about the best way to implement something, and then a couple of hours at the end of the day to actually write the code. I find I'm much more productive this way.

I'm pretty sure someone has just released something like this. A handheld scanner that will tell you the calories/macros for your plate of food.

It was a one off cost of circa £150, then £15 or so a month ongoing.

Apologies but can't be arsed to find the link on mobile.