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Comment by 12ian34 | Hacker News Reader

Love the idea, enjoyed the interface, but I feel my time was wasted when I only found out the US focus several clicks into the flow. Speaking as someone not from the US, I do wish more websites didn't just assume that all their traffic was coming from the US. You could alleviate this by having a flag on the home page saying "This is really more for Americans only".

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Thanks for the feedback. I would love to add better generalization for international use; so far it's just been out of scope for a solo dev to account for all the intricate tax rules that differ from country to country. If you have further suggestions though on additional features that might help to start bridging that gap, feel free to shoot an email to projectifi.io@gmail.com!

I'm not even asking for generalisation, I appreciate you're a solo dev. Just be kinder to non US users by warning them before they are several clicks into your flow!

You can also just check browser locale, show a warning if != US as early setup step. Offer to take their email and tell them when more countries are added (and capture all the traffic to reactivate later).

Maybe I am mistaken about this, but I think the "browser locale" shows the preferred languages, not where the user lives. As such it would be the wrong information to use for this. For example, I am German and live in Germany, but my browser locale is en-US.

And on the other side, one could live in the US but have a different locale configured. The locale can be used to have a quick guess, but it absolutely must not block using the product.

As a former American expat, I felt this deeply. A lot of the online financial analysis tools, like Mint, looked cool. But since they had a US focus and I was not in the US I couldn't take advantage of any of them. And once GDPR came into effect I was effectively locked out of any of them.

Lunchmoney is a good multi currency financial analysis app that's been shown on Hackernews a bit

http://lunchmoney.app

Also this, from UK.

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