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nish1500

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About nish1500

Founder at formcrafts.com

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48670950

    "...notaries, historically the highest-paid freelancers in the country. On average, they earn €356,000 per year. Or, put another way: the equivalent of 37.4 years' salary for a chi…

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    Comment #48660667

    High initial capital requirements have repeatedly proven to be more detrimental than beneficial ( https://mariusring.github.io/web/BacherFagerengRingWold_Sele... ). Germany is an o…

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    Comment #48659704

    I incorporated a GmbH with Musterprotokolle and it still look me longer than OP.

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    Comment #48659486

    I've run a tech business on three continents, and nothing comes close to the Kafkaesque labyrinth of the German world. Everything is unbelievably complicated and over-engineered, a…

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    Comment #44033940

    I am in the process of moving my startup from Canada to Germany. I started in India, so I have experience running a bootstrapped business on three continents. I am not looking for …

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    Comment #40812312

    I updated the text. The official link doesn't give out the numbers but they were included in the email.

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    Tell HN: Stripe increases Billing pricing by 40%

    Billing Starter at 0.5% and Billing Scale at 0.8% will be merged into a single plan at 0.7%. Invoicing and Revenue Recognition (previously included in the price for Scale) will be …

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    Comment #37735171

    This is the cycle of JavaScript frameworks. You create something deceivingly simple that tramples upon idiomatic usage but looks great for a todo app. Beginners realize the hard wa…

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    Comment #36012775

    I used 2.9% + 30cent for each transaction

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    Comment #36012508

    Salaries for what? Marketing? Obscene bonuses? Downtown office buildings? It is a manufactured need. I am simplifying things but if we had a public owned payments system that wasn'…

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    Comment #36012295

    When you pay a merchant $100 with your card they get about $97. When this $100 has exchanged hands 50 times only $15 remains. The bank owns the other $85. Cash is a hassle but it c…

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    Ask HN: How do you deal with persistent spam from a specific tech company?

    Magicbricks is a large real-estate portal based out of India. I created my account earlier this year and received a ton of marketing emails. I unsubscribed but continued to receive…

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    Comment #28974113

    This is the only correct answer here.

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    Comment #26713198

    You'd honestly rather tell people to not have babies rather than swap out their beef burger for a Beyond burger?

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    Comment #26704619

    There are some rare individuals whose diet needs ingredients found only in animal products. I have come across exactly 2 in my lifetime. That said, these people would still be vega…

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    Comment #26704371

    Stone age humans are hardly the standard we should be aspiring for. The biggest two arguments for veganism are: 1. The horrific practises of the animal agriculture industry, which …

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    Comment #25249352

    Exactly! Which is why my comment talks about 'Trading' not 'Investing'. https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/12/difference-inves...

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    Comment #25249165

    Trading on the stock market (by and large) doesn't create value. If someone makes a killing, it's because someone lost it. You hear about those who make money - because it's the st…

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    Comment #25249019

    People want to believe in get-rick-quick schemes, and will go by the flimsiest evidence they can find. I think the trick is to realize those glamorous selfies are mostly a mirage. …

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    Comment #24732977

    I have done little to no marketing, and spent less than $100 in the last 7 years. Initially, I relied on integration listings with our partners (Stripe, MailChimp, Zendesk). Overti…

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    Comment #24732027

    Thank you. I often use the words startup / business / company interchangeably. I don't know enough about the nomenclature to have strong opinions on it. Yes, I would like to sell F…

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    Show HN: Successful One-Person Startup by a Self-Taught Coder

    In 2013, I was living in India, studying accounting and finance full time. I started coding as a hobby using online tutorials to learn. I launched FormCrafts (https://formcrafts.co…