Good luck! My question is... how do you find developers? Most LATAM countries tax service exporters a lot of money, that's why devs prefer to stay under the radar and use stuff like Payoneer or Paypal. What's the advantage, as a dev, to use your service? It everything is legal paper-wise I have to pay more taxes.
Launch HN: Ontop (YC W21) – Easily hire and pay remote workers in LATAM
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Re: Launch HN: Ontop (YC W21) – Easily hire and pay remote workers in LATAM
#52Good luck! My question is... how do you find developers? Most LATAM countries tax service exporters a lot of money, that's why devs prefer to stay under the radar and use stuff like Payoneer or Paypal. What's the advantage, as a dev, to use your service? It everything is legal paper-wise I have to pay more taxes.
We have special agreements with local governments that are interested in exporting technical talent. Even though we are not head hunters we can help in that regard. You are right, there are a lot of people that just avoid taxes, however this is a huge liability for companies and some have already realized this. We want to help out both parties to achieve high levels of compliance and still have the economic benefit.
Re: Launch HN: Ontop (YC W21) – Easily hire and pay remote workers in LATAM
#53Congratulations! I'm happy for you. So we have Ontop for LATAM. We have Manara ( https://manara.tech ) for MENA (Middle East and North Africa). It's backed by YC as well. We have Andela ( https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/23/connecting-african-softwar... ) for Africa. Honorable mentions: Pesto ( https://pesto.tech/ ), Turing ( https://turing.com/ ), Youteam ( https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/23/youteam/ ). Now I wonder wh…
Thank you very much!! Even though we are latam focused we currently have clients worldwide and we already serve +150 countries. Happy to help :)
Re: Launch HN: Ontop (YC W21) – Easily hire and pay remote workers in LATAM
#54 LATAM engineers should try to immigrate to the US instead to working remote. The same owner of Ontop is saying that they are getting just 33% of the salary they'd get in the US.
Venausa (https://www.venausa.net) is giving a coaching in Spanish to get a job in the US in less than one year averaging 90.000 USD annually for LATAM engineers.
Re: Launch HN: Ontop (YC W21) – Easily hire and pay remote workers in LATAM
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
You are the product here, or well, people like the former you in theory."Cheap" developers, the American companies win, this "innovative" company wins, and the developers get screwed. Do you want to work with American companies? Open an US account as a person or as an LLC (it is very easy these days) and request to be paid there in USD.
However opening up an LLC and a bank account is not that easy, when you are from latin america, and receiving the money in a US bank account implies you have to report to the IRS.
Opening an LLC as a sole foreign proprietor is very easy. Not only that, if you dont physically conduct business in the states (as in a developer programming from outside) you dont pay any taxes in America (you still have to file of course). Getting a bank account is also easy with an established LLC, directly with Mercury or indirectly through Stripe.
https://www.llcuniversity.com/irs/how-to-apply-for-ein-witho...
Re: Launch HN: Ontop (YC W21) – Easily hire and pay remote workers in LATAM
#56LATAM engineers should try to immigrate to the US instead to working remote. The same owner of Ontop is saying that they are getting just 33% of the salary they'd get in the US. Venausa ( https://www.venausa.net ) is giving a coaching in Spanish to get a job in the US in less than one year averaging 90.000 USD annually for LATAM engineers.
Should is the wrong word. I think what you mean is it would benefit them financially to immigrate. Some people may not want to leave family in their home country and others may simply not want to live in the US.
Re: Launch HN: Ontop (YC W21) – Easily hire and pay remote workers in LATAM
#57LATAM engineers should try to immigrate to the US instead to working remote. The same owner of Ontop is saying that they are getting just 33% of the salary they'd get in the US. Venausa ( https://www.venausa.net ) is giving a coaching in Spanish to get a job in the US in less than one year averaging 90.000 USD annually for LATAM engineers.
90k USD in USA and 40k USD in LATAM is a huge difference not in favour of USA
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#58Forgive me for my ignorance but, what is LATAM? Latin America?
I was having a hard time with that too, I found an airlines but it soon clicked.
Re: Launch HN: Ontop (YC W21) – Easily hire and pay remote workers in LATAM
#59LATAM engineers should try to immigrate to the US instead to working remote. The same owner of Ontop is saying that they are getting just 33% of the salary they'd get in the US. Venausa ( https://www.venausa.net ) is giving a coaching in Spanish to get a job in the US in less than one year averaging 90.000 USD annually for LATAM engineers.
I would recommend the opposite. I lived in a LATAM country and I earned a modest USD salary but my quality of life was much better than now, when I receive the "33% more" and live in the US. This is because:
- USD is always high, so currency conversion is very favorable. I literally earned 4x more than an engineer at the same position in a local big company.
- My spending was in local currency, so utilities and most of everything is very low priced compared to what I earned.
- Taxation in many LATAM countries is about 15% or less, depending on how you incorporate yourself.
- Health is much cheaper than of the US at a similar quality. I could have a major heart surgery for less than 10k USD with world renowned doctors.
- Migrating is never easy, cultural barriers, lack of family support and bureaucracy can add a huge amount of stress.
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Re: Launch HN: Ontop (YC W21) – Easily hire and pay remote workers in LATAM
#60LATAM engineers should try to immigrate to the US instead to working remote. The same owner of Ontop is saying that they are getting just 33% of the salary they'd get in the US. Venausa ( https://www.venausa.net ) is giving a coaching in Spanish to get a job in the US in less than one year averaging 90.000 USD annually for LATAM engineers.
90k USD in USA and 40k USD in LATAM is a huge difference not in favour of USA
That's just an average. I'm doing 130K now. I'm from Chile and the cost of life difference between Santiago and Utah is practically zero, earning 6x.
Obviously is more difficult to do it having a family with kids, that the visas can cover the family as well. Giving a English education to your kids can be the best gift you can do them.