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vacooomon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2025)

Rewardful | Senior Ruby on Rails Developer | Fully remote (Europe)

Rewardful makes it super easy for SaaS companies to handle their affiliate programs using Stripe or Paddle. Profitable company, small but growing team of senior developers, within the saas.group's family of companies.

Job description and applications: https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/saasgroup/jobs/449390510...

vacooomon Twitter Blue breaks EU consumer law by showing prices without tax

I don't have a good resource that summarizes the various rules, but high-level this is the mechanism:

For B2B: 1. If the seller is extra-EU, and the buyer in EU, no VAT is charged 2. If the seller is in one EU country, and the buyer is in a different EU country, no VAT is charged by the seller, but the buyer has to do a "VAT reverse charge" (it still nets to 0€ paid, but there is extra paperwork involved) 3. If the seller and the buyer are in the same EU country, they charge the regular VAT rate

For B2C things are a lot more complicated for cross-border transactions, and there is a difference between selling goods and services. For digital goods, as a seller, you would need to charge the VAT of the country of the _buyer_, and gather two pieces of evidence about the country the buyer resides in, then remit the taxes through the VAT MOSS system. Not fun. That's why Paddle & co are popular.

vacooomon Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell

Very cool! Joined your Discord server. Even if you don't want to monetize it right now, you should set up a Patreon or something like that, and at least let people chip in on your server costs.

It would be a very cool community-supported smart radio service :)

vacooomon Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell

Trying it now and it seems really nice! I wish you had a desktop/web version, and it would be my daily background radio while I work all day. Spotify's Discover Weekly playlists are nice enough, but they barely carry me through the first 1-2 days, and then it gets pretty repetitive.

It would also work really well as an Alexa skill, especially with Rad's commentary.

What did you write the apps in?

vacooomon Show HN: Text editor with inline English-German dictionary

That's a neat idea. Would love to have that as an Obsidian plugin!

vacooomon CureVac fails in pivotal Covid-19 vaccine trial with 47% efficacy

I found this being a very good explanation for the technically inclined: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source...