Show HN: How to start a business in France

There is no official answer in English on the Web to the question "how to start a company in France", so we've built a website to guide you through it with as little headache as possible.

https://mycompanyinfrance.fr

It's open-source software [3] built inside the French public startup incubator, beta.gouv.fr.

For those interested : does it convey most of the information you need ? What's missing ? It's the first iteration, and we're planning many new features.

[1]: Startup nation ? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18066248

[2]: The French healtcare and pay as you go pension systems are also regularly discussed e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12998163

[3]: Source: https://github.com/betagouv/syso/

1. But even if my browser is set to English, I see French on https://embauche.beta.gouv.fr/ and most of the issues on the Github repository are written in French! What signal do you want to send?

2. As one can find on "https://embauche.beta.gouv.fr/" the employee gets only half of what the employer pays.

Contrary to what is stated on the same site, one employee does not get much benefit of what the employer pays for her retirements and healthcare, because:

* if she is hired now, there is a good probability that she will have only a little retirement pension in 40 years, even if the law does not change. (probably close to the minimum salary, at least I hope so). So all this considerable amount of money will be wasted in the state and the "sécurité sociale" deep pockets.

* It is the same for the health fund: What makes the French health system seems free for workers, is that they have a mandatory mutual [0] which pays for most of the costs. The "Social security" pays around of 10% of most usual costs, the mutual fund pays the rest...

Most French companies are trying hard to use other schemes for paying better their employees, for example because they have some company investment fund, but "shut...".

[0] This website is provided by the URSSAF, the French social security contributions collector"

Before doing this kind of marketing, do the essential updates first and companies will blossom all over the country.

[1]: https://en.llri.lt/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Employment-Fle...

What? The basic insurance scheme pays at least 60% of a set of reasonable, negotiated fees and the "mutuelle" covers the rest. There are a few corner cases (complicated dental work, optics) but these are being addressed. Usually the out-of-pocket expense is minimal to nil (a "forfait moderateur" of around 1 euro per doctor's appointment for instance)

Social security paid for 76% of all medical costs in 2014 (last numbers I could find).

92% of hospital bills 64% of doctors visits 62% of drugs, glasses and such. Most prescribed drugs by your doctor being reimbursed 100% you don't even have to pay at the pharmacy.

http://www.vie-publique.fr/decouverte-institutions/protectio...

You also have a very simplistic way of understanding how our retirement pension system works and the role it has in the society.