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Re: Show HN: DrawDB – open-source online database diagram editor (a retro)

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admiralrohan wrote: post #8
cduzz wrote: post #3

This seems like a really cool project. Some observations... First I'd get some legal advice for how to convert this idea / product into a thing that you own and have a stake in, but that's distinct from you. This means you'd be able to collect money and attribute that money to the product, you'd be able to sell it to someone else and walk away from it, etc. This legal construct is important; probably not _necessary_…

Are you talking about incorporating a company? Why is this necessary at this stage before earning money? Can be a waste of money.

where i'm currently based, every single cent that can be considered income is tracked and taxed. plus i would have to declare its origin. so there's definitely some legal set up before monetization

Re: Show HN: DrawDB – open-source online database diagram editor (a retro)

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h1fra wrote: post #22

Failed to import a Postgres export with all of this errors: - "missing_fields" _text NOT NULL DEFAULT ARRAY[]::text[] - "status" text NOT NULL DEFAULT 'RUNNING' ::text CHECK (status = ANY (ARRAY['RUNNING'::text, 'PAUSED'::text, 'STOPPED'::text, 'SUCCESS'::text])) - DROP TYPE IF EXISTS "script_trigger_event"; - CREATE UNIQUE INDEX name ON table_name USING btree(unique_key, environment_id, deleted_at) NULLS NOT DISTINC…

yep, parser issues. will report it, thanks for letting me know

Re: Show HN: DrawDB – open-source online database diagram editor (a retro)

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999900000999 wrote: post #6

Looks very very cool! Think about enterprise features you can charge for, and see what your community thinks. If 100 people per month can pay 50$, that's 5k which is very nice for a side project! For myself, I absolutely would love this as a Django plugin!

>If 100 people per month can pay 50$, that's 5k which is very nice for a side project!

sounds too good to be true xd

>For myself, I absolutely would love this as a Django plugin!

after migrations, will be adding orms. or some plug in system for anyone to add whatever they want. don't know how but would be a fun feature to work on

Re: Show HN: DrawDB – open-source online database diagram editor (a retro)

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Post by cduzz »

admiralrohan wrote: post #8
cduzz wrote: post #3

This seems like a really cool project. Some observations... First I'd get some legal advice for how to convert this idea / product into a thing that you own and have a stake in, but that's distinct from you. This means you'd be able to collect money and attribute that money to the product, you'd be able to sell it to someone else and walk away from it, etc. This legal construct is important; probably not _necessary_…

Are you talking about incorporating a company? Why is this necessary at this stage before earning money? Can be a waste of money.

I'm suggesting that starting a project like this should involve consulting with an attorney and possibly an accountant.

It is important, generically, to be friends or at least have a relationship of some sort, with an attorney. This is all _really_ vanilla stuff and they should be able to assess the minimum requirements and financial outlay needed in less than 20 minutes.

You want to be very clear about what the thing is, where you stop and it starts, who owns it. If you're going to be taking money for doing the thing, you want to know how to pay taxes on it, and how to value it (now, when you create it, and later, in the event you plan on selling it).

Make a plan, talk to the attorney about the plan, and understand what steps need to be taken to protect yourself and the project.

You can certainly play fast and loose; it'll probably be fine. You may have to play fast and loose if you have no resources. But there are lots of people who have gotten very badly burned by not paying attention to the rules and fine print in the contract(s).

Examples of things going badly include Redis and CCR, just off the top of my head.

Re: Show HN: DrawDB – open-source online database diagram editor (a retro)

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Post by cduzz »

1ilit wrote: post #31
admiralrohan wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you talking about incorporating a company? Why is this necessary at this stage before earning money? Can be a waste of money.

where i'm currently based, every single cent that can be considered income is tracked and taxed. plus i would have to declare its origin. so there's definitely some legal set up before monetization

You may in fact decide to explicitly never monetize it, which is a perfectly reasonable decision.

You may also find that there are ways of setting the thing up so that you aren't paid (at least not right now if it's not convenient to be paid) but the thing is able to collect money and use that money to do $RANDOM_BUSINESS_THINGS like pay for hosting and maybe eventually hire a developer...

It's likely that this is all really simple stuff, to someone who knows exactly how thing work in $LOCAL_LEGAL_REGIME

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