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Re: I started a paper website business

#51
I like write on paper. I have written journals for 14 years, which now fill one section of my bookshelves.

This year I switched from fountain pens and clairfontaine notbook to E-ink tablet, Supernote A5x.

the main purpose is to keep the record in digital formats, And so far I am satisfied. The OCR sucks, though. I hope Supernote may adopt the GPT-3.

Re: I started a paper website business

#52
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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.

i don't want liability

What are you talking about? You make revenue, you disclose the revenue, you file taxes. Doesn't matter if you do it as a private person or as an LLC.

You can incorporate to reduce liability easily, it does not cost a lot of money in most jurisdictions.

Re: I started a paper website business

#53

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You can change that. After I started using a Palm Pilot, my handwriting improved significantly and the changes seem to have been permanent. I get basically 100% accuracy with the Apple Pencil in iOS.

There is a delicious irony in the fact that you are training yourself using a reinforcement learning approach to meet the needs of an imperfect machine learning application.

An inexpensive bit of consumer tech. was able to accomplish something that years of human teachers could not.

Re: I started a paper website business

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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.

do you think as a foreign citizen i'd be able to setup a UK Limited? i'm familiar with Companies House though

If you’re not on any sanctions lists there shouldn’t be any issues.

Your residency/citizenship does not play any part in forming a UK LTD. It might affect your ability to open an account with some banks though.

These guys are okay https://www.99pcompanyformations.co.uk/ The whole process takes a few minutes and costs almost nothing.

Re: I started a paper website business

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Well, this business scales easily, what am I missing?

I think the point is that him sending out notebooks (he only has 100 of) doesn't scale.

Ordering from an established supplier connection (in China) scales.

Re: I started a paper website business

#60
All his projects are fun…one of his prior projects (mentioned in the article) is Mailoji.

I registered a few and messaged him suggesting it would be cool if I could transfer the Mailoji email addresses with a code so I could hide them in NFTs only the owner could see…I think by the very next day he added the transfer code feature (and didn’t fail to give it the attention of his own style complete with an emoji gift box).

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