"We're sorry but Japan Dev doesn't work properly without JavaScript enabled. Please enable it to continue."
Nope. You want people to read your stuff? Don't force javascript onto them.
How and why I built Japan Dev
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Re: How and why I built Japan Dev
#62This was incredibly well-written and an enjoyable story. Congratulations on pushing through and getting traction. Something that resonated: > We had to put 5 million JPY (~$45k at the time) in our business bank account and leave it there. For... some reason. Living in Asia I've come across this bizarre government obsession with "money in the bank" when dealing with them: "You need $15k in a bank account to apply" "Ok…
In Germany there is a similar thing where you need to deposit at least 25,000 € as collateral to be able to create a GmbH (similar to an LLC). This is meant to pay for debts in case the GmbH goes bankrupt. But the government recognized that this was a problem so the "UG (haftungsbeschränkt)" was made possible where you are only required to deposit 1 € initially and than can deposit more each year until you can conver…
Same in Italy
Re: How and why I built Japan Dev
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've tracked down the root cause: I needed to disable two uBlock Filters in order to successfully load the page: Fanboy's Annoyance and Fanboy's Social. It seems that they block some JS related to social buttons ( https://japan-dev.com/assets/socialButton.9ddbb1cc.js ) and that makes the rest of JS responsible for the rest of the page to not execute (due to a failed request). Sorry for the false flag.
Oh wow thanks for checking, that's helpful to know. I should probably restructure things so that one component failing doesn't bring down the whole site if I can...
I'm on Windows, blank page with Firefox and uBlock origin. Works fine on Ms Edge (no ad blocker).
Re: How and why I built Japan Dev
#64This was incredibly well-written and an enjoyable story. Congratulations on pushing through and getting traction. Something that resonated: > We had to put 5 million JPY (~$45k at the time) in our business bank account and leave it there. For... some reason. Living in Asia I've come across this bizarre government obsession with "money in the bank" when dealing with them: "You need $15k in a bank account to apply" "Ok…
In Germany there is a similar thing where you need to deposit at least 25,000 € as collateral to be able to create a GmbH (similar to an LLC). This is meant to pay for debts in case the GmbH goes bankrupt. But the government recognized that this was a problem so the "UG (haftungsbeschränkt)" was made possible where you are only required to deposit 1 € initially and than can deposit more each year until you can conver…
> This is meant to pay for debts in case the GmbH goes bankrupt.
This is only partially correct. It is to ensure that you can pay your first bills without going bankrupt after the first week or so. You can actually use the money right away to pay for bills. Also, if you pay in cash, you only have to deposit 12,500€.
Re: How and why I built Japan Dev
#65"We're sorry but Japan Dev doesn't work properly without JavaScript enabled. Please enable it to continue." Nope. You want people to read your stuff? Don't force javascript onto them.
Good luck with that.
Re: How and why I built Japan Dev
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
In Germany there is a similar thing where you need to deposit at least 25,000 € as collateral to be able to create a GmbH (similar to an LLC). This is meant to pay for debts in case the GmbH goes bankrupt. But the government recognized that this was a problem so the "UG (haftungsbeschränkt)" was made possible where you are only required to deposit 1 € initially and than can deposit more each year until you can conver…
Aren't the 25k euros only capital requirements? (i.e. you have to bring them into the company as capital but then they don't have to remain in the company's bank account).
It is also not strictly "capital" requirement. You can bring in non-capital value (like buildings, machines, etc.) into the company, but AFAIK this is much harder and hardly worth the extra hassle.
Re: How and why I built Japan Dev
#67This was incredibly well-written and an enjoyable story. Congratulations on pushing through and getting traction. Something that resonated: > We had to put 5 million JPY (~$45k at the time) in our business bank account and leave it there. For... some reason. Living in Asia I've come across this bizarre government obsession with "money in the bank" when dealing with them: "You need $15k in a bank account to apply" "Ok…
100% this happens.
As an additional cross-cultural observation, 20-something western young men routinely insist on debating the merits of this policy with the impotent clerk processing their business. I've never seen the clerk unilaterally alter government policy, but the mutual exchange of Confused Face continues just the same.
Re: How and why I built Japan Dev
#68So to summarise: A dev turned dev recruiter who can write good content (capable of going viral) and who works with only the best companies.
You developed a simple product (extremely well tested business model and done 1000 times), used your reach and writing skills to kickstart the supply / demand and profited.
A mundane idea but executed brilliantly. Well done and congratulations.
Re: How and why I built Japan Dev
#69Off topic: if you’re a private business owner - why share your revenues?
It seems like more negative than good can come from it.
(A) if you’re in enterprise software - potential customers might be scared away by how “little” your revenues are
(b) you’re inadvertently begging for new competition when another solo developer thinks I can do better and cheaper.
Etc.
Re: How and why I built Japan Dev
#70Off topic: if you’re a private business owner - why share your revenues? It seems like more negative than good can come from it. (A) if you’re in enterprise software - potential customers might be scared away by how “little” your revenues are (b) you’re inadvertently begging for new competition when another solo developer thinks I can do better and cheaper. Etc.
I think its for Self-Promotion.