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I live in a draconian tax country. How can I open a online international business and receive money from anywhere in the world? Do I need to move to a tax heaven?
I run http://officesnapshots.com which publishes photos of office design projects from around the world. I started it in 2007 as a gin side project to teaching history. I'm no longer teaching and it is the majority of my income.
What is meant by a "gin side project"?
Basically I saw images of Google's offices and wondered if there were any sites that showed only office photos. There weren't any that I could find so I bought a domain and started posting photos I came across.
It was a collection of candid photos that weren't very good at first, but it is mainly architectural photography submitted by design firms now.
You can have a successful online business with one-person, but there will always be a maximum to the amount of money you can make and it does not scale well. I ran a 1-person company for the past 3 years (B2B SAAS). I now have 2 other partners in the company to pick up the slack and we will be hiring a few employees next month. It's difficult to: maintain your current business (IE: new features, bug fixes, customer s…
Actually, vacation / time off shouldn't be an issue. I've been doing this for 15 years and now my product runs like clockwork. Generally unless I'm doing new dev work, I only have a few support emails per day. As long as I go on vacation somewhere where I can at least have wifi in the evenings and mobile data during the day to occasionally check my email, it's not a problem. Also I regularly take long breaks during t…
Maybe it's an issue if you're running a SAAS business. Instead my stuff is consumer downloadable software, so if there was a problem it was usually just a single customer, not my entire customer base at once.
I'm doing http://justaddcontent.com solo and self-funded. It turned into a bigger project that I anticipated, especially for my first product. I started working on it full-time in October. It started as a hobby project about two years ago. It took particularly long because I have a non-technical, military background and had to teach myself to code, design, write copy, marketing, etc. It's been a fun challenge. I stil…
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Suppose you run a professional services business where you have appointments. If people don't come to an appointment, you don't get money. You might pay an office manager to call people the morning of their appointment to remind them, so that they come into their appointment, so you get paid, right? Appointment Reminder is like an office manager who costs $200 a month, not $4,000 a month, is vastly more likely to suc…
> If people don't come to an appointment, you don't get money This might only be common in the medical field, but I've always seen cancellation fees of around 100% of the appointment price.
(And, BTW, I know several hairdressers who can go well over $200 for a single appointment.)
I run http://officesnapshots.com which publishes photos of office design projects from around the world. I started it in 2007 as a gin side project to teaching history. I'm no longer teaching and it is the majority of my income.
That's great to hear. I love the site and was always wondering if it was just a small side project or something bigger now.
I've been adding new features recently, like the pinterest-like area for browsing office photos by room.
My goal of late has been to help people find and interact with the old posts that would traditionally be lost in the date-archive format of a traditional blog.
Hey there. /raises hand. https://www.improvely.com and https://www.w3counter.com Five figures a month, just me, I've written about my solo business a couple times in other Ask HN threads. Ten years ago (almost to the day), in my college dorm, I was looking at the Webalizer web stats report my web host provided for my blog, and thought "I could do something much cooler than this". So I did. I had built a few education…
Do you have lots of users for W3Counter? How much users do you need for offering free content and making a profit from advertising? I'm interested.
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Why was leobelle being downvoted? I can understand disagreeing with what they were saying. It's an opinion after all. But, what they were saying wasn't that far off base..
Probably because the adverts that are blocked pay for the site. Kind of like asking musicians for zippy share links to their music.
I'm doing http://justaddcontent.com solo and self-funded. It turned into a bigger project that I anticipated, especially for my first product. I started working on it full-time in October. It started as a hobby project about two years ago. It took particularly long because I have a non-technical, military background and had to teach myself to code, design, write copy, marketing, etc. It's been a fun challenge. I stil…