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Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service

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Post by atleta »

simonbw wrote: post #428
atleta wrote: post #388

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But why would you do that? I mean if that's you money, why would you ask your partner? I'm pretty frugal, don't spend on stupid things easily (well, things that I find stupid, at least), but if I had a business idea or even a fun project I don't think I'd need permission from my partner to spend my own money on it. Discussing it is a different story, of course.

I think it's pretty common that when people get married it becomes our money instead of my and your money.

I don't know how common it is. I'd guess it's at least also pretty common that it doesn't. But the GP didn't even talk about a formal/legal marriage (if that makes a difference in your reasoning). They said significant other.

Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service

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Post by swader999 »

EvilEy3 wrote: post #568
swader999 wrote: post #525

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It was kinda like that in 2013 when I suggested btc mining to my wife to cover the costs of the electric heat in our new house. And here we still are...

Hope you learned your lesson, buddy.

There's several lessons in there and I learned them all really well.

Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service

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Post by oneeyedpigeon »

momo_O wrote: post #611
oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #593

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Yup, the same here down to the no kids. The tricky bit is deciding on what counts as 'shared spending' — my partner is insistent that it should cover necessary bills only, I think it should cater for almost everything we share including meals out, for example.

I'd love to hear more details on how you are defining 'shared spending'. I've seen my parents have major conflict over control of spending and this shared account idea is very appealing to me, when I need it.

So, as mentioned, right now it's just essentials: mortgage and house bills really. Everything else we pay for individually — our own mobile bills, etc. We tend to alternate on things like meals out.

Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service

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Post by Salgat »

Grakel wrote: post #444
rhythmofrest wrote: post #318

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I'll take "things you can do when you're single"... can't quite imagine sidling up to significant other with the gambit "Darling, would you mind terribly if I spent £1000 on Kazakhstani emoji domains?"

I'll never understand this, but I see it all the time. People should have shared money, and they should also have their own money. Does my wife like it when I buy myself expensive toys? I have no idea, it's irrelevant unless I stop covering the bills.

It's very specific to each couple. My wife and I both trust each other and consult each other on big purchases. We also trust each other not to be controlling and judgmental. We have no need for separation of money. Not everyone can do this and that's also fine.

Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service

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Post by alexellisuk »

As a self-confessed "indie dev" and have perfected the art of giving away value for free so I love to see stories like this. In a short period of time you've tried out a "crazy" idea that might catch on and you've earned some money already. I hope you can get 10x that income before long.

With regards to VAT - when you sell to B2C customers in Europe (which I'm sure you do), you need to charge them VAT in the state they reside in. The easiest way to do this is with something like Paddle [0]. After that, probably registering in Ireland for VAT MOSS [1].

It alarms me how many people start taking payments from Stripe for their new platform without spending any time to get sales/VAT tax compliance in place.

Remember when this [2] blew up on the front page of Hacker News about GitHub Sponsors delivering a B2C service, without any VAT applied? That's the same reason that just taking payments with Stripe isn't enough.

[0] https://paddle.com/support/how-does-paddle-handle-vat-on-my-... [1] https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/vat-moss-vat-on-sa... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26293050

Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service

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Post by dgreensp »

saagarjha wrote: post #578
jollofricepeas wrote: post #561

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People generally treat their partners like pets or property where they gain agency over each other’s wallets and body. I could careless what my partner spends his or her money on or even whom they decide to sleep with. We treat each other as equals to make their own decisions together or apart. If you’re with an irresponsible person then you either break off the relationship or agree to suffer with the consequences o…

> even whom they decide to sleep with I do not expect this to be popular.

There are many forms of consensual non-monogamy, including polyamory and others. I don’t know exactly how common, but I’ve heard 5%.

Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service

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Post by dgreensp »

yeahnah22 wrote: post #619
jollofricepeas wrote: post #561

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People generally treat their partners like pets or property where they gain agency over each other’s wallets and body. I could careless what my partner spends his or her money on or even whom they decide to sleep with. We treat each other as equals to make their own decisions together or apart. If you’re with an irresponsible person then you either break off the relationship or agree to suffer with the consequences o…

I doubt I’m the only one a bit surprised by this post. Do you live with your partner? How do you split shared or somewhat-shared expenses? Are your incomes equal? Who has the role of managing expenses? If you go out to dinner, who pays? What if you share a dessert? (.. etc - you get my point.) I hope you’re willing to expand given your enthusiasm for your lifestyle, but more context will help.

I’m not the parent commenter, but, the same thing comes up with friends and housemates. Even married couples who are otherwise “traditional” sometimes keep their finances separate. You each pay rent. If you go on a trip together or buy something for the house, you split the costs. The shared expenses are the easy conversations. If anything, sharing all money obfuscates the harder ones.

Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service

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Post by rileytg »

diamond_hands wrote: post #506
simias wrote: post #439

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I was actually just thinking that he should probably register the [diamond][hands].kk domain, there's got to be some demand for it given how much it gets spammed over there.

https://xn--tr8hi8e.kz/

wrong emoji... this is it http://.kz

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Post by ratww »

blockyhead wrote: post #569
ljm wrote: post #508

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> 1000$ is not a lot of money For a lot of people in the world, it's a tremendous amount of money. Congrats on being someone without that concern. > Stop making excuses. Take that up with the person you've imagined you're talking to.

We are talking about people with internet access, not some rural farmers in the third world. Nobody says those rural farmers should embark on an emoji project.

$1000 a month is a good developer salary in lots of third-world countries, and that's not even entry level jobs. Hardly a bunch of rural farmers.

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Post by lazide »

LandR wrote: post #615
pgsimp wrote: post #614

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Could you elaborate? I'd really like to understand why you don't have any spare money, despite of two good earners in the household? "A joke" is also incorrect, the guy is trying to make money. Nevertheless, if you reframe it as "for fun", vacations presumably should count. I rather doubt you would be unable or unwilling to spend 1000$ on a vacation? Nobody says that everybody should be willing to spend money on an e…

$1000 is less than 1% of the money I have in savings sitting in the bank. After all my expenses this month I better have more than $1000 left over when I get paid or somethings gone horribly wrong! Yet... I still wouldn't spend $1000 on anything outside of essentials without having a really good reason. I'm not spending $1000 on a holiday, that seems mental to me but then I'm not big into traveling. I like gaming but…

Sounds like you might also be starving yourself and your family for no reason? If you have > $100k in the bank, and presumably a much larger multiple of that in investments and other assets - why not spend $1k sometimes on something that you could enjoy or that (in this case) could earn you more money?
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