gregorycarter

Looks really cool. I am the CFO for a post series A company with 25 employees in the UK and last month migrated to Pento, who I guess you would consider a competitor?

I love the new employee experience. Now payslips get synced straight into our HR system (HiBob) and everyone can delete the horrible MyEPayWindow website from their bookmarks.

More importantly for me, the payroll administration side is significantly slicker. We used to spend significant time back and forth in emails with our payroll administrator providing manual updates of new starters and payroll changes. This was not scalable as our headcount grew. Now changes get synced automatically from HiBob. We actually pay slightly more to Pento than we paid the administration firm, but our calculation was that the time we saved was a bigger saving overall.

Anyway I think you are playing in a great space and there is a huge market. I look forward to following your progress.

Have you been following the Ubuntu Phone project?

http://www.ubuntu.com/phone

They're somewhat behind schedule, but there have been some news reports of a release this year of a fully convergent phone:

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/06/first-ubuntu-phone-with-c...

Ubuntu phone already comes with a terminal, however using currently for apt-get requires disabling OTA updates.

Does anyone know of a Zenefits like business that serves the UK?

I've not come across anything close and HR administration is just as big of pain in the UK as the US. I recognise the business model (commissions on health insurance) wouldn't work in the UK, but I'd be happy to pay. Our health insurance costs are so much lower anyway....

Have you come across Orgzly?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.orgzly

I found it last week while trying to get started on Org Mode and being frustrated by the poor mobile apps. So far Orgzly has been pretty good.

(No link whatsoever to the developers BTW, just a user)

Have you read Early Retirement Extreme?

http://earlyretirementextreme.com/

Very similar philosophy.

Yes, this is right (on 4.3 at least). You can choose between QWERTY, QWERTZ, AZERTY, Dvorak and Colemak.

This is one of the best uses of Ask HN I've seen in a long time.

Best of luck.