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Re: I started a paper website business

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where is your business based and have you registered an LLC?

do you make a separate LLC for each project?

how much did it cost to launch the business and what does is cost to keep running (lawyers/paperwork/admin)?

i'm scared of starting my own tiny projects, because of all the bureaucracy involved to even get started

Re: I started a paper website business

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post #21

where is your business based and have you registered an LLC? do you make a separate LLC for each project? how much did it cost to launch the business and what does is cost to keep running (lawyers/paperwork/admin)? i'm scared of starting my own tiny projects, because of all the bureaucracy involved to even get started

You don’t really need to register an llc or do any of that for your projects that are not big.

Re: I started a paper website business

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So I diligently kept a pen and paper journal about my game designs for three years (wrote about 100,000+ words on paper). Switched to digital for a year, wrote 120,000 words just in 2019 (starting every morning sitting at a Starbucks and writing it helped), switched back, then switched back again, doing less and less words each year (for 2021 I'm at like 15,000 words, so pathetic, it's only like 12 entries total, need to get back into it).

But for the pen and paper I was manually transcribing it to digital (and still only transcribed about half of it). I didn't know OCR had gotten that good (and still suspect my writing isn't clean enough for great OCR).

But maybe I should give this a try, might be enough to get me back in the habit. Also trying to avoid doing as much typing lately (because of some arthritic-like pain in the fingers on one hand, although it's my writing hand :/)

Re: I started a paper website business

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I've done some OCR side projects during hackathon weeks over the years (with google tesseract). This is a neat idea, I can only imagine the difficulty with which transcribing the variety of terrible handwriting will cause frustration and an eventual flood of refunds.

Yeaaaah, his handwriting is actual certified art compared to mine . I can't get anything to recognize my handwriting reliably, including the text recognition built into iOS with Pencil - it's just useless.

Re: I started a paper website business

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post #21

where is your business based and have you registered an LLC? do you make a separate LLC for each project? how much did it cost to launch the business and what does is cost to keep running (lawyers/paperwork/admin)? i'm scared of starting my own tiny projects, because of all the bureaucracy involved to even get started

You don’t really need to register an llc or do any of that for your projects that are not big.

how do you legally accept money then?

clarification: i'm in EU

Re: I started a paper website business

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don’t really need to register an llc or do any of that for your projects that are not big.

how do you legally accept money then? clarification: i'm in EU

If your turnover is low enough you don’t need to be VAT registered in the UK. Also, in the UK you can be VAT registered and be a sole trader.

Re: I started a paper website business

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post #21

where is your business based and have you registered an LLC? do you make a separate LLC for each project? how much did it cost to launch the business and what does is cost to keep running (lawyers/paperwork/admin)? i'm scared of starting my own tiny projects, because of all the bureaucracy involved to even get started

It’s not that bad - make an LLC right now (in most states, it’s a single form to start one), then you have no excuse. Taxes are easy.

You probably don’t even need the LLC, but I like having a bit of a legal umbrella (though chances are, no one is going to sue you unless your project gets big)

Re: I started a paper website business

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post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don’t really need to register an llc or do any of that for your projects that are not big.

how do you legally accept money then? clarification: i'm in EU

I think you just take the cash using Stripe or whatever. It gets deposited in your bank account and you claim income tax on it.
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