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Re: I can build enterprise software but I can't charge for it

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Post by 486sx33 »

Onavo wrote: post #41
echend wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you for this thoughtful response. You're raising legitimate concerns I may not fully understand. Let me clarify my understanding (and please correct me if I'm wrong): My assumption was that a structure like this would be legal: - Partner in US/UK registers their own company - Opens Stripe under their company name - Hires me as a remote contractor (like any distributed team) - I hold equity as a foreign sharehol…

Most of commenters in this thread are overcomplicating things and have no experience with gray area industries. What you need is Turkey, the UAE and Dubai. The payment stack however can be Chinese/middle eastern/eastern European. This is a fairly standard play for people of your background, from there you can bootstrap and then ultimately leverage yourself into a new citizenship (most commonly Canadian and Australian…

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Re: I can build enterprise software but I can't charge for it

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Post by cush »

echend wrote: post #32
KomoD wrote: post #25

> Go ahead. Talk to the avatar for 2 minutes. Ask it anything in English. Watch how it responds in real-time with synchronized lip movements and natural conversation. There's nothing. > The product works. You just tested it. I didn't, there's nothing to try.

You're absolutely right, and I apologize for the confusion. The demo is a single-session system (designed for hotel lobby kiosks where one person uses it at a time). If someone else is talking to the avatar when you visit, you won't see a QR code. Here's a direct link you can try: https://ps.neoclerks.com:8451/player.html?ss=f2ee51d8-2ea3-4... If that's busy too, I'm happy to schedule a 15-min private demo. Email: Ec…

> You're absolutely right

Is this botspam?

Re: I can build enterprise software but I can't charge for it

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Post by jsheard »

nickphx wrote: post #18

Do people actually want such a service? What part of interacting with a touch screen displaying an animated character, high end or luxury?

Yeah, this type of blatant corner-cutting seems like the exact opposite of what luxury brands would want to represent them.

Re: I can build enterprise software but I can't charge for it

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Post by ivraatiems »

ryandrake wrote: post #36
echend wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you for this thoughtful response. You're raising legitimate concerns I may not fully understand. Let me clarify my understanding (and please correct me if I'm wrong): My assumption was that a structure like this would be legal: - Partner in US/UK registers their own company - Opens Stripe under their company name - Hires me as a remote contractor (like any distributed team) - I hold equity as a foreign sharehol…

I think, due to the seriousness and potential consequences of even inadvertently violating international sanctions, you are going to want to (somehow, I have no idea how) obtain legal advice on this subject from an attorney, not from random HN commenters.

I don't think - though I am not sure - that it is illegal for an American attorney to advise an Iranian national on what American laws are. There is an Iranian-American Bar Association at https://iaba.us/ which might be able to help.

Re: I can build enterprise software but I can't charge for it

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Post by dangus »

Aurornis wrote: post #35

> Test it first: neoclerks.com/en > Go ahead. Talk to the avatar for 2 minutes. Ask it anything in English. Watch how it responds in real-time with synchronized lip movements and natural conversation. > I'll be here when you get back. As far as I can tell, there is no live demo. There is a button to "book a private demo", but I can't find anything to try. Second: Unfortunately, this is a request to partner with someo…

This whole thing is most likely just be a scam with a sob story.

The urgency is the sob story: OP threw his life away to develop an AI avatar platform [1] and is supposedly in dire need urgent financial assistance. Better help him quick before you discover it’s a scam!

OP is almost certainly exaggerating the amount of effort put into this platform. It’s an AI wrapper. Period.

Scam.

[1] Who needs an AI avatar? It is not a bazillion dollar market like OP claims.

Re: I can build enterprise software but I can't charge for it

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Post by ankit_mishra »

DiabloD3 wrote: post #6

He's Iranian. Github is most likely going to delete his account due to sanctions. Weird to just announce that publicly.

From what I can tell looking at the website they are hoping to have made enough returns by the time it's taken down

Re: I can build enterprise software but I can't charge for it

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Post by bawolff »

ivraatiems wrote: post #33
echend wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you for this thoughtful response. You're raising legitimate concerns I may not fully understand. Let me clarify my understanding (and please correct me if I'm wrong): My assumption was that a structure like this would be legal: - Partner in US/UK registers their own company - Opens Stripe under their company name - Hires me as a remote contractor (like any distributed team) - I hold equity as a foreign sharehol…

> My assumption was that a structure like this would be legal: - Partner in US/UK registers their own company - Opens Stripe under their company name - Hires me as a remote contractor (like any distributed team) - I hold equity as a foreign shareholder (which I thought was legal for non-US persons) That structure is explicitly illegal because you are an Iranian national. It does not matter whether you are a contracto…

> Editing to add: the ONLY exception I can think of to this would be if you flee Iran, plead for and are granted asylum in the United States or a third country with better relationships to it. This is extraordinarily hard, and possibly a violation of Iranian law for me to even suggest to you.

Couldnt they just immigrate normally? I dont know how this all works, but there is a reasonably large size group of Iranian expats in my country (canada), many of them with jobs in the tech sector. I think they are just normal immigrants and not asylum seekers. I imagine its hard (especially with the current gov taking an anti-immigration tone), but probably a lot easier than getting asylum in usa.

Re: I can build enterprise software but I can't charge for it

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Post by Aurornis »

rubyn00bie wrote: post #48

I see a lot of negativity in this thread and I’m not sure why… There are a LOT of folks who prowl HN and some of them obviously have incredible access to resources and connections to figure out a way to accomplish if they were so inclined. Yes there are obvious hurdles for people in “the west,” but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible. I think the most obvious question is, would the OP relocate to another country if the…

> I see a lot of negativity in this thread and I’m not sure why…

Because it's a request for someone to violate sanctions for them. They are specifically asking for someone to set up Stripe, take on the legal risk of violating international sanctions, and forward the money to them.

> Yes there are obvious hurdles for people in “the west,” but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible.

The "it" that is being requested is not about relocation, though. It's a direct ask to violate sanctions to sign up for services that must enforce sanctions.

Re: I can build enterprise software but I can't charge for it

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Post by DetroitThrow »

cush wrote: post #52
echend wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're absolutely right, and I apologize for the confusion. The demo is a single-session system (designed for hotel lobby kiosks where one person uses it at a time). If someone else is talking to the avatar when you visit, you won't see a QR code. Here's a direct link you can try: https://ps.neoclerks.com:8451/player.html?ss=f2ee51d8-2ea3-4... If that's busy too, I'm happy to schedule a 15-min private demo. Email: Ec…

> You're absolutely right Is this botspam?

This one also comes up from foreign language speakers using ChatGPT or Claude to translate their point, and then not trimming the GPTisms.

Re: I can build enterprise software but I can't charge for it

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Post by ivraatiems »

bawolff wrote: post #57
ivraatiems wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> My assumption was that a structure like this would be legal: - Partner in US/UK registers their own company - Opens Stripe under their company name - Hires me as a remote contractor (like any distributed team) - I hold equity as a foreign shareholder (which I thought was legal for non-US persons) That structure is explicitly illegal because you are an Iranian national. It does not matter whether you are a contracto…

> Editing to add: the ONLY exception I can think of to this would be if you flee Iran, plead for and are granted asylum in the United States or a third country with better relationships to it. This is extraordinarily hard, and possibly a violation of Iranian law for me to even suggest to you. Couldnt they just immigrate normally? I dont know how this all works, but there is a reasonably large size group of Iranian ex…

The United States has effectively halted immigration from Iran: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/06/rest...

Canada is a different matter and certainly, if the OP immigrated to Canada and was living there as an Iranian national with legal Canadian residency, the situation would be different.

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