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martinpannier

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Paris-based entrepreneur, web enthusiast, and hobbyist photographer. Cofounder & COO, http://socialfolders.me. Ex-founder of Picuous, http://dashmin.com
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martinpannier··on Reduce your startup's payroll taxes through the new Federal R&D Tax Credit
Credits like these don't necessarily affect the actual money flowing into social security—social security is just used as a "taxation basis" in this case. That being said, that is a hypothesis—I'd have to look at the precise funding plan.
martinpannier··on Reduce your startup's payroll taxes through the new Federal R&D Tax Credit
We're only enabling those startups that already qualify for the R&D tax credit to much more easily, and cheaply, claim it. We've seen accountants charge customers up to 25% of the credit obtained, and we think we can help.
martinpannier··on Reduce your startup's payroll taxes through the new Federal R&D Tax Credit
No, unfortunately you can't.
martinpannier··on Reduce your startup's payroll taxes through the new Federal R&D Tax Credit
2 things are new:

- Before, you could only offset your corporate income taxes, so you couldn't claim the credit if you weren't profitable (because you wouldn't have corporate income taxes). Now, you can offset social security taxes, which are based on payroll. So more startups can now benefit from this credit.

- Gusto has rolled out an new tool that allows their customers to much more easily claim their R&D tax credit, taking on much of the grunt work.

Disclaimer (?): I'm a PM on Gusto's payroll team

martinpannier··on Hangouts for iOS
Google's answer to Facebook Messenger… I'm surprised, I would've expected that they start out in this category by buying WhatsApp.
martinpannier··on Show HN: Summaries of interesting content, written by people
Interesting idea. Would love to know how you guys will tackle the tl;dr generation issue—how to incentivize people to contribute, etc.

This is definitely a very interesting space. We ARE moving towards bite-sized pieces of information anyways, and you guys seem to be riding on this trend.

Best of luck, and looking forward to how this will turn out!

martinpannier··on Ask HN: What are some excellent blogs by *technical founders*?
Thanks guys. Will post the list soon. Stay tuned!
martinpannier··on Groupon now worth less than the $6 billion Google offered.
The micro-level counter-examples you provide for macro-level mechanisms simply don't work.

If you consider your first example at a market level, people that are better compensated are more valuable—because they create more value (the discussion is—of course—not around one's value as a human being). The only reason for imperfection in this regard is market friction—which there is a lot of, in every market. But the market value tends very quickly towards the real value if the market is liquid enough.

In a liquid equity market (stock exchanges for example), the price of the stock you buy is its current value. However, you are making a bet on the future value gains of the company. Buying stock for its current value is investing; anything else is speculation.

martinpannier··on Show HN: Wolfrasms, a Wolfram/SMS mashup
Clickable link: http://wolfrasms.com

(please upvote the clickable link)

martinpannier··on Handwriting recognition for Kindle Touch (sudoku)
I wouldn't have suspected the Kindle touch screen to be sensitive enough for this kind of technology.

I also didn't suspect that there was a whole category of Kindle content I had never heard of.

Now I feel stupid.

martinpannier··on Show HN: SocialFolders, "Dropbox for social"
You're absolutely right! Will add ASAP
martinpannier··on Show HN: SocialFolders, "Dropbox for social"
I was.
martinpannier··on Show HN: SocialFolders, "Dropbox for social"
Yes & you assume correctly.
martinpannier··on Show HN: SocialFolders, "Dropbox for social"
Please direct support requests to martin@socialfolders.me

I'll take a look at your account to see what went wrong - send me your email.

Agreed on the 1-way sync. Good idea!

martinpannier··on Show HN: SocialFolders, "Dropbox for social"
Agreed. We're working on a better menu bar icon. Will have small blue rotating arrows :)
martinpannier··on Show HN: SocialFolders, "Dropbox for social"
Yep - for now

We are evaluating the feasability of using symlinks (the problem being cross-platform execution).

martinpannier··on Show HN: SocialFolders, "Dropbox for social"
Thanks kmfrk (a mouthful)

We'll try and make the website more friendly. As ever, juggling with multiple priorities.

We're in SF, haven't seen people throwing themselves at us just yet, but can't wait :)

martinpannier··on Show HN: SocialFolders, "Dropbox for social"
I'd totally forgotten about that project, used to use it with MacFusion. We'll check out the project again to see which of the services we could integrate (or what code/libs we could use).
martinpannier··on Show HN: SocialFolders, "Dropbox for social"
Thanks Dave, I'll fix it ASAP
martinpannier··on Show HN: SocialFolders, "Dropbox for social"
Got it, thanks!

Answer: no - yes - no

martinpannier··on Show HN: SocialFolders, "Dropbox for social"
Yeah I mean you are sooo right, look at Photo Stream! I mean, Photo Stream is SO last century. Hmmm.
martinpannier··on Show HN: SocialFolders, "Dropbox for social"
Shouldn't be any problems the file is hosted on S3… Weird. Can you try again and shoot me an email at martin@socialfolders.me if it still doesn't work?
martinpannier··on Show HN: SocialFolders, "Dropbox for social"
Mainly, we're file-based and we mirror all file mgmt operations on your computer. So you always have your content with you. And any offline edits (to your SocialFolders Google Docs for example) is applied online as soon as you reconnect.

And we have a business model.

martinpannier··on Show HN: SocialFolders, "Dropbox for social"
$800

His original video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-ZgtOZJVKE

Edit: sorry, didn't get the part about the "Hero + 3 below". Care to explain?

martinpannier··on Show HN: SocialFolders, "Dropbox for social"
Wait until we get out or geolocated mobile app too!
martinpannier··on Show HN: SocialFolders, "Dropbox for social"
Actually we have! We're in contact with Jaisen Mathai to integrate the OpenPhoto project ASAP.

Thanks for the feedback we're going to integrate easy folder sharing as soon as humanly can! :)

martinpannier··on Show HN: SocialFolders, "Dropbox for social"
Shoot your questions! Here or martin@socialfolders.me
martinpannier··on Show HN: SocialFolders, "Dropbox for social"
Planned for Q2 - more to be truly cross-platform than by popular demand, to be frank :)
martinpannier··on Show HN: SocialFolders, "Dropbox for social"
The screencast parts are home-made, Screenflow FTW.

The first 30" were made by a freelance on Elance.

martinpannier··on Show HN: SocialFolders, "Dropbox for social"
Clickable links: screencast: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s2TFsVezZQ, website: http://socialfolders.me
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