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CER10TY··on Moving away from US cloud services
What's a good alternative to Proton? Still haven't migrated my business away from Google Workspace, and I was thinking Proton would be a good alternative, but apparently not if they don't even support IMAP/SMTP.
CER10TY··on Ask HN: How do you handle VAT / Sales Tax accounting as B2C SaaS?
This happened to plenty of people with Stripe as well.

Doesn't mean Paddle isn't a good place to start - but as you get bigger, you should probably look at other solutions as well, to de-risk your payments infra. It's just that at the start it's too expensive, even in B2B, to think about multiple payment providers to spread risk.

CER10TY··on Go European: Discover European products and services
Considering the PCLOB has lost some of its members, it's questionable whether the DPF can continue to exist in its current form. If it does go out the window, then Trump won't need to tell AWS/GCP to stop doing business with the EU, since European companies wouldn't legally be allowed to transfer data to US companies anyway.

I expect the EU commission will take a _very_ long time to actually act on this tho. Maybe we'll see Schrems III first.

CER10TY··on Go European: Discover European products and services
That doesn't really work as long as you have legislation like the CLOUD Act, which means EU-based businesses have to think twice about using any US providers, especially if they handle sensitive customer data and also since the DPF is on the way out.
CER10TY··on Ask HN: in 2025 Which project does not have any good open-source alternatives?
Surely one of the 10000 todo list apps we get every year out of coding bootcamps will be good by now. /s
CER10TY··on Ask HN: What note taking app do you guys using as a developer?
Late to the party, but there's a "canvas mode" in Obsidian where you can sort of group notes together and drag them around. Other than that, it's also got a graph view, so provided you tag and link notes properly, it will show you related notes in the graph.
CER10TY··on My Beancount books are 95% automatic after 3 years (2024)
As far as I can tell this is without the planned C++ rewrite though, and the documentation at https://beancount.github.io/ still says to use v2.

Is there a point in migrating already?

CER10TY··on Ask HN: What's your blog / portfolio stack?
SvelteKit + Netlify. The editing workflow for my blog is slightly cumbersome, because I write locally in Obsidian (just in case I ever redesign my website again, nothing is lost) and then copy/paste into VSCode, then publish.

Once it's published, Brevo automatically picks up the RSS Feed to send out my daily newsletter, since I switched from long-form sporadic blog posts to a shorter-form daily newsletter.

I've used Hugo/Jekyll in the past and liked it, but I'm used to SvelteKit now so I just stick with it, plus I could always hook up a Headless CMS still if necessary.

CER10TY··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2025)
SEEKING WORK | Remote | Europe

I'm a Fractional CTO that specialises in helping B2B SaaS avoid costly technical mistakes early on. I'm available to join your team as a Fractional CTO on a limited-time basis (max 1-2 years), but I also offer an advisory retainer aimed at technical leadership that provides immediate, 24/7 access via phone, Slack and email.

I bring 10+ years of experience in a variety of industries, ranging from e-commerce, to real estate, to insurance. I've worked at startups and highly regulated companies, where I've helped launch products from the ground up and scale them to 50 million+ users globally. I also frequently launch my own products.

Given the current state of the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, I can also help you de-risk your B2B SaaS by providing advice regarding moving critical infrastructure to the EU and away from the US. This will give you a leg up on your competition as it brings you one step closer to true GDPR compliance, without relying on negotiated frameworks.

Contact details and pricing is available at https://www.soeren.codes.

CER10TY··on The Era of Solopreneurs Is Here
>While the giants are trapped in their own complexity, nimble teams can build and launch AI-native solutions that directly challenge established players. Target a bloated SaaS vertical, rebuild it from the ground up with AI at its core, and position it as the next-generation alternative.

Is there _anyone_ that would jump ship to yet another SaaS just because it's "AI enabled"? Obviously it's all the rage for VCs right now, but I can't imagine switching to some other product simply because it has AI and mine doesn't.

CER10TY··on Ask HN: Recommend resources that helped your game dev journey?
You forgot that you need to listen to some podcasts along the way.
CER10TY··on Ask HN: How do you get users (and keep them)?
It's important to find the problem _first_. To me, it sounds like you're already building a solution (which can be a fun project, no doubt!), but in search of a problem.

Most books / talks will advocate finding your customers first, which means listening for problems that they have. It doesn't mean there can't be a solution on the market already, because competition in itself is validation that there's a need, but it means you need to be better than your competition in executing 1-2 particular features your customers want.

A common example is a large enterprise product having so many features that certain customers are turned off from the bloat; you could step in here, execute 1-2 features well, and sell that (provided customers want that).

CER10TY··on Startup founders: how do you write your privacy policy?
Can't a creative lawyer almost always find a loophole in any contract? I don't think anyone's going to sue you if you sell a 60€/mo SaaS, esp. if you just hand the customer back their money. Obviously, if you're selling million-dollar medical hardware, your risk profile might be different.
CER10TY··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2024)
SEEKING WORK | Remote preferred, Onsite possible (Europe only) | Freelance Fullstack Engineer

Brief: I'm a Fullstack Engineer with over 6 years of professional and close to a decade of personal experience that's available for full- or part-time contract work. I've worked in a wide variety of industries, ranging from e-commerce to real estate. Currently heavily invested in Ruby on Rails and VueJS, but I've worked with a wide range of tech and frameworks like React, NuxtJS, GraphQL, NodeJS, Python and Perl - anything that gets the job done.

My CV is available upon request. You can visit my website over at https://www.soeren.codes/ and see some of the projects I've worked on previously.

I'd love to hear from you! Send me an e-mail at soeren@soeren.codes if you've got an interesting project lined up.

CER10TY··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2023)
SEEKING WORK | Remote preferred, Onsite possible (Europe only) | Freelance Fullstack Engineer

Brief: I'm a Fullstack Engineer with over 6 years of professional and close to a decade of personal experience that's available for full- or part-time contract work. I've worked in a wide variety of industries, ranging from e-commerce to real estate. Currently heavily invested in Ruby on Rails and VueJS, but I've worked with a wide range of tech and frameworks like React, NuxtJS, GraphQL, NodeJS, Python and Perl - anything that gets the job done.

My CV is available upon request. You can visit my website over at https://www.soeren.codes/ and see some of the projects I've worked on on my own time.

I'd love to hear from you! Send me an e-mail at soeren@soeren.codes if you've got an interesting project lined up.

CER10TY··on Ask HN: How is your startup doing?
Try https://vokabeln.io/ instead.
CER10TY··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2023)
SEEKING WORK | Remote preferred, Onsite possible (Europe only) | Freelance Fullstack Engineer

Brief: I'm a Fullstack Engineer with over 6 years of professional and close to a decade of personal experience that's available for full- or part-time contract work. I've worked in a wide variety of industries, ranging from e-commerce to real estate. Currently heavily invested in Ruby on Rails and VueJS, but I've worked with a wide range of tech and frameworks like React, NuxtJS, GraphQL, NodeJS, Python and Perl - anything that gets the job done.

My CV is available upon request. You can visit my website over at https://www.soeren.codes/ and see some of the projects I've worked on on my own time.

I'd love to hear from you! Send me an e-mail at soeren@soeren.codes if you've got an interesting project lined up.

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