Redirect is slow tonight, so here's the original URL: https://medium.com/@coolcontinuum/the-composer-continuum-353...
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In reality, most people just assume everything but food at the grocery store is HST taxable. They think they know the tax rates and will not challenge their own assumptions.
I worked night and day for three and a half months. I would literally collapse on the floor with exhaustion and be unable to move.
When I think about it now I marvel at the gargantuan scope of the project and my unrelenting drive to finish it. It was probably the most ambitious undertaking of my life.
And when it was finished - 12,000 easily searchable items and their sales tax for each of the 10 provinces and three territories - NO ONE CARED. People on reddit mocked the idea. I pitched it to an incubator and they shrugged indifferently. A few months later I repaid the investor (I didn't want him losing money because of my shortsightedness). Eventually the site was taken down, although I wish now I didn't.
It's here on archive.org, if you're interested, although it doesn't show the output: https://web.archive.org/web/20180118173228/http://www.isitta...
2. Expect your startup/business/product to morph into something else, and that you'll change names and domain names, maybe multiple times.
3. You need an origin story, especially if you want any press. It also helps to be good looking.