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Email is dead. Its been taken over by spammers and AI slop.
We're walking back into a world of walled gardens. Contact is not via IM or email but only via trusted, secured networks.
My old PCs now run AI Agents telling all the crap emailers to use the contact form on our site. Life is too short for crap emails.
Like Bump did before it was shut down by Google.
You'll need to find a business model that pays enough to keep your product going.
Maybe you need a suite of micro tools, sold as a single package, that can earn enough to pay for the business costs.
We employ our own bookkeepers (in Africa) who operate a range of accounting systems for each company in the group (5 countries).
As CEO I tend to do the teaching and review but the team does the lodgement. (I am an Australian Chartered Accountant and former tax agent so get the rules fairly easily).
Most lodgements are online. The US is the exception. We also find there are free services for lodging electronically.
A lot of the accounting systems are way overpriced so we don't use many of their up market solutions.
We have built our own invoicing and Billing system this week with AI so expect we'll create more of our own apps over the coming year.
My bookkeeping team has some spare capacity so let me know if we can maybe help you out.
Perhaps you could create both a Public and Corporate version of the extension, like Copilot does. The Corporate version could have access to all browser data but not share it beyond the bounds of the company.
Why is there a mix up? Any Aussie knows a baby kangaroo is called a joey.
Are you sure the sitcom didn't name the role after a baby kangaroo?
To save payment fees there are probably easier sections of the payment process to focus on. For instance why do so many merchant banks insist on mandatory FX into 1 currency. This limitation means if I use Stripe I end up paying 9% commissions.
Eg US LLCs not owned by US residents can't get card acceptance.
It's 300,000 file limit means pretty much no developer would risk it considering the thousands of files in a typical app.
Believe me when OneDrive lost a heap of my files this year I was not impressed to learn of this serious limitation. To be fair GoogleDrive and DropBox also have similar limitations.
Azure Storage on the other hand doesn't have the limitation, is much cheaper and much faster. It's UI sux though.
I'm still searching for a reasonable cloud backup solution. Until then cheap external drives are the answer.
Since reading these police access reports from the US I tried using the Secure Folder.
As a digital nomad for past 9 years I visit 10-20 countries a year, so lots of border crossings.
Secure Folder sadly doesn't allow you to hide all your disclosing apps inside.
Certain apps like browsers still need to be run inside your main section, and therefore accessible from a fingerprint login.
And a phone without finger or face login is too cumbersome for digital entrepreneurs in this day & age.
So the idea of shutting off the phone as you cross borders seems to be the best approach for us nomads.
I note the court case wasn't about a border crossing so I'm still looking for practical solutions.
Not being American I, like many, am almost paranoid visiting the US with all its foibles.
1. A strong desire to get more out of life. 2. The fact that marketing to this niche is psychographical not demographical.
Not new concepts in the travel, or other industries, but as the numbers of people associating with digital nomadism grows, the niche can open up larger markets.
My own 4 year old startup, Nomad Stays, was created to solve some of the lifestyle sourcing issues that living 9 years as a digital nomad, and visiting over 100 countries had shown me was hard.
Google Drive also had syncing issues on their Windows app & stores images in a reduced way.
Haven't used iCloud for years as need auto syncing from Win PCs as well.
Will be trying some of gge suggestions listed below too now. Thanks for the topic.
I'm nearly 60, and have been in tech 37 years. I wake up even more enthused every day.
Didn't you use a vesting table for the shares?
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/digital-nomad-visa-dilemma-ma...
Most digital nomads still don't use them as other Commenters have outlined, they are cumbersome, expensive & don't address the taxation elements well.
Digital Nomad entrepreneurs can often work under standard 'tourist' visas in any case if they stick to the 'business' rules attached to those visas in any case.
While Permanent Establishment rules scare many employers off permitting much remote work for their employees.
With competition between countries to attract tourism the current version 1 DN visas will need to change to become attractors.
I'd suggest removing the 30/90 limit from tourism visas is an easy way to improve tourism economics.
Changing taxation policies will take longer but are also needed as the remote worker world grows so strongly & favour 'tax friendly' nations.
Now the land is sold I wonder what happens with their UN country status.