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Show HN: Let your website visitors ask ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini about your product

2 points·by lukaslukas·hace 4 meses·1 comments

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1 points·by lukaslukas·hace 5 meses·0 comments

Show HN: RCS Composer – a visual editor that outputs RBM JSON

2 points·by lukaslukas·hace 6 meses·0 comments

We got a $60k tax penalty for a zero-revenue side project

28 points·by lukaslukas·hace 8 meses·21 comments

Show HN: I got tired of PowerPoint, so I built Slidepicker

slidepicker.com
3 points·by lukaslukas·hace 8 meses·4 comments

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lukaslukas
·hace 5 meses·discuss
Haha "Stripe-no-webhooks library"

Library based on processing ... wait for it ... webhooks".
lukaslukas
·hace 6 meses·discuss
Good point! I don't understand why this link received so many points.
lukaslukas
·hace 6 meses·discuss
Nice! I made something very similar, but with a focus on frequent daily use, means no clicking required, you can only use keys

Look at stringify.cc
lukaslukas
·hace 8 meses·discuss
When we logged into the tax portal, only this amount was shown as to pay. Terrible UX.

In fact, the fine was actually what we paid (minimum tax + missed deadline + interest).

“Normal fine”: We just didn't expect you to be able to incorporate a company and if you miss the tax payment deadline, you will receive a fine 100 times higher than the cost of incorporating the company, no matter what.

But of course, I don't recommend our way. Don't do it. It was wrong. Pay your taxes. Fill out all the required documents.
lukaslukas
·hace 8 meses·discuss
Good question. We have considered all options. But the company cannot be officially closed without paying all taxes/fines, etc.

At the same time, with a C corp, only the company itself is liable for taxes and fines, not its founders. If a company does not have sufficient funds, it cannot operate, and there is a process for automatically dissolving the company (after several years, if you have no outstanding obligations to third parties, no fraud intentions, etc.). We didn't want to do this and be left with an unpaid bill in our minds.
lukaslukas
·hace 8 meses·discuss
Our target market was US, so US company was the first and only choice.
lukaslukas
·hace 8 meses·discuss
I agree, and I think we knew that even back then!

However, we thought that starting a company would motivate us because we would be "commited" and this would demonstrate to each other that we were serious about it, given that we all had other jobs. And to this day, I still think it has some meaning.
lukaslukas
·hace 8 meses·discuss
what is the difference?
lukaslukas
·hace 8 meses·discuss
C corp in Delaware
lukaslukas
·hace 8 meses·discuss
Well sure :) but we expected to pay a "normal" fine, not $60,000 right away. Especially since we had zero revenue. Today we would do many things differently...
lukaslukas
·hace 8 meses·discuss
Haha, I see people talking about slides everywhere, from specific moment in my life... that's when I started coding slidepicker.com!

Anyway, nice work! I created something similar for our product (a list of divs that switch visibility based on keyboard input).
lukaslukas
·hace 8 meses·discuss
Thanks! I can’t wait to read your feedback!
lukaslukas
·hace 8 meses·discuss
Haha, same! Which tools are you using or trying to use?
lukaslukas
·hace 9 meses·discuss
Welcome to imageconverter.dev imageconverter.dev asks for your consent to use your personal data to:

Personalised advertising and content, advertising and content measurement, audience research and services development Store and/or access information on a device ...

WTF? Privacy first?
lukaslukas
·hace 10 meses·discuss
Thank you! Exactly this "It is JSON with some fingerprinting/hashing send over Websocket" should be write there somewhere + put a link to the documentation and an example of how to use it. I don't want to watch an hour-long video.
lukaslukas
·hace 10 meses·discuss
I don't understand. Can someone explain it to me from a technical/IT perspective? Is it like HTTP or JSON, or like XMPP...?

"An open protocol with a chance of working" = ?huh? "Nostr doesn't subscribe to political ideals of "free speech"" = ???huh? "BEEP BOOP" ???wtf??

Please don't explain technical things as if you were talking to children. Explain them as if you were talking to a colleague sitting next to you. Talk to them as a person and as a professional.