Probably the closest I've ever been to getting a heart attack. Normally <$1 per month, and now suddenly $284,006,266,443.74. Whatever the bug is on their end, this is unforgivable.
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Luckily most of our business is in the EU, so as an EU company, filing our EU VAT is easy.
We used Avalara for 1 year in order to setup VAT registration in Norway. We chose Avalara because they do in fact provide full service solutions for VAT (registration, filing, and remittance). However, they are expensive and were AWFUL to work with: poor communication/support, no integration with Stripe, and we had to manually generate carefully structured Excel files in order to import our sales data. We cancelled our contract with them after 1 year, but were able to take over the filing account from them and now our in-house accountant does the filing and remittance (which is quick, easy, and MUCH cheaper).
We have considered something like Paddle, but it is difficult to justify the increased fees as our business grows. For the amount of money we'd be spending on Paddle in extra fees vs Stripe, we may as well just use a service provider or hire our own staff.
With Stripe Tax we can easily monitor our thresholds in other countries. There are some countries that technically require registration for even a single transaction in that country, which is ridiculous. I imagine for most companies it is definitely not feasible to register, file, and remit in all of those countries.
I recently added DMARC monitoring to some of my domains through CloudFlare.
We hit $2k monthly revenue after about 1.5 years. Growth completely stopped during COVID, but is now growing very well (more than 10x that).
Kind of funny, I'm still on my most recent replacement/repaired unit, and it's still working great since my AppleCare Protection Plan expired (knock on wood). But I guess it's only a matter of time until I'll have to buy a new one.
https://pqvst.com/2021/06/22/hosted-monitoring-evaluating-in...
I also recently started using Logtail for one of my projects. They also have a good free-tier and it comes with a Grafana instance embedded, so that you can visualize metrics computed from your logs. Seems quite useful but haven't had a chance to really test it fully yet.
We're seeing responses like this in our logs:
smtp;550 5.7.1 Service unavailable, Client host [<ip>] blocked using Spamhaus. To request removal from this list see https://www.spamhaus.org/query/ip/<ip> (AS3130). [DM6NAM04FT060.eop-NAM04.prod.protection.outlook.com]
Historical "Time to Inbox" available further down on this page: https://status.postmarkapp.com/
"You were sent an email today noting that your banking information in iTunes Connect is invalid and needs to be corrected. This email was sent in error and you do not need to update banking information. We apologize for the error."
The only time I've used "cloud functions" in the past has been for executing complex jobs that may take up to several minutes. For this, cloud functions has been very useful and easy to scale.
I hope DO can consider increasing this limit.
I was given a booster shot of anti-tetanus. I was given a Human Rabies Immune Globulin injection straight into the wound on my hand between my finger joints (this was extremely painful). Then I received my first dose of Rabies post-exposure vaccinations (Day 0, Day 3, Day 7, Day 14, and Day 28). The following injections were in my arm. All of the costs were covered by my travel insurance and my home healthcare system.
The entire experience was traumatic. Even though I knew the circumstances were definitely in my favor (I knew the chance of the dog actually being rabid was probably quite low and I had received treatment within a couple of hours) I was still really freaked out for a couple of months.
To make matters worse, just a few days after my incident, there was a Norwegian girl that died from rabies after getting bit by a dog. That definitely didn't help calm my nerves.
Ever since then I am extremely cautious of any animals around me.