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I know it won’t be popular, but I would honestly love to have a social network that’s purely just what my friends/family post. No suggested content, no algorithmic feed, no reacting to posts. Just purely whatever they post and ability to leave a comment.

I did some work for a client who wanted to build an app for it. After that I ended up building a few apps just for fun, and once they started bringing in some ad money, I just ended up building more.

I think their ecosystem is still small enough that good apps do well, whereas with iOS/Android you really have to build super polished apps and market them to thrive.

KaiOS is just HTML/JavaScript, I ended up using Vue and building my own component library that I could re-use in every app.

I have developed about 20 mobile apps for the KaiOS ecosystem, which does around $500-$750 a month.

I also run https://monitorprices.org, which is just a list of available monitors on Amazon, but provides a bit more filters. Does about $125 a month, maybe double if there’s a creator reward campaign running.

Nothing splashy or exciting really, but it gives me motivation to keep trying things.

At least for me, the worrying would never stop. Even when I send letters with clear deliverables and timelines, I would just find myself worrying and getting angry over the whole situation.

The only time it stopped was after about 7 months, when we finally signed a settlement agreement. But then it all started again when no payment came in.

I’m not sure how the other party felt about all this, but to be on the receiving end of it all is horrible, and maybe just accepting the money is lost would’ve been better in the end.

I've recently dealt with this over a 8 month period, and it was mentally exhausting. I wish I would’ve just accepted the money to be lost, and let a lawyer deal with it, but instead spend 8 frustrating months trying to deal with it.

In the end I lost far more money than just what my client owed me. For months I couldn’t focus on work, and just wasn’t mentally able to find new clients.

It’s indeed a hassle if you were to mix your own CSS classes and Tailwind, but I don’t do that. Instead I use Tailwind for its design system and set of defaults.

My own CSS is classic BEM style, so very component like.

In hindsight I could easily replace Tailwind and just produce a set of CSS variable as a design system.

I’ve always had the idea of producing a CSS design system with just a bunch of preset CSS variables to use like ‘margin-left: var(—-p2);’, as it’s close to how I end up using Tailwind lately; ‘@apply ml-2;’

How did I ignore it? I know it was North Point because the reference to Chinese gangsters, I also lived there, I know what happened. Never denied what happened.

> The protests in 2019 were very different. It looked crazy on television, but in person it actually wasn't very scary. I lived in a neighborhood with a lot of immigrants from Fujian province who got in a big brawl with protesters half a block from my flat.

Did you also live in North Point? I still remember the eerie vibes of the days after, almost every single shop was closed, and corners were guarded by certain people. A couple of days after, I went out for a walk, and came home to a standoff between protesters and riot police. I ended up going to Macau for a couple of days so to avoid the chaos.

I also felt that as a foreigner it was rather difficult, protesters would assume you're on their side, until you slightly criticized some of their actions, then you were just labelled as misinformed, and "you wouldn't understand as a foreigner". So I mostly just stuck to myself and refrained from discussing it with locals.

Same here, I have a couple of mobile apps that use Cloudflare workers + KV/D1, and it’s been great. I’m low traffic enough to be on the free tier, but would happily pay given how easy it’s been to build on.

I started using Bun by default for small personal projects. Having to set up Node, with Typescript and reloads always took the fun out of quickly prototyping something.

Have yet to run Bun in production tho.

I know the LTR isn't specifically for digital nomads, but if you qualify, it's another visa to relocate to Thailand, and work legally. Just as many of the other visas, some people will be excluded due to income or degree requirements, so I don't see this as any different.

Many of the - what I consider - digital nomad visas, aren't specifically called that, but I think digital nomads are still a group that qualifies for them.

There’s also quite a few countries offering digital nomad visas that can lead to citizenship.

https://www.nomad-visa.com/

I’m sure these are trade secrets, but how do these sites get all the data? Is it just scraping?

> With hardware, the EU can demand adherence to standards like USB-C.

Not picking sides here, just curious; if a better standard comes along, do we all have to wait for the EU to turn it into a law before companies can change to that new standard?

There’s quite a few jobs in finance. But in terms of startup, or non corporate jobs, there’s very little.

The 16.5% corporate tax is definitely a benefit here, and for now it makes sense because I also live here.

If I were to return back to Europe, the UK might indeed be a decent choice.

I run a business in HK, and generally it’s incredibly easy. Easy to set up, accounting is easy, ongoing fees are fairly low. So far I haven’t encountered any issue. But I’m well aware of the political issues being registered in HK might bring, and some (especially US) businesses might be wary of doing business.

Do you have a source for the growing numbers? On all accounts it seems to have plateaued, and even slightly down in the past 5 years - https://www.techrepublic.com/article/ios-vs-android-market-s...

I recently had a human at my local banks' branch (after 30 minutes of waiting) tell me I should call their phone hotline to get my issue resolved. They couldn't (or refused) to do it in person.

Did you ever inquire about her reasoning behind it? If she can get a gun, the robbers most definitely can get a gun, I’m not sure if that makes in any safer.

I've had a weird experience with Qatar customer service as well. Basically during covid you could get a full refund if you cancelled or rescheduled your flight. I wanted to reschedule my flight to another final destination, the support agent said they couldn't do that, but could issue me a voucher, and hold a reservation for my next flight. All I had to do was pay that flight with the issued voucher.

However they failed to even send me the voucher within 24 hours, so when I called back, I was told the flight would be an extra US$3,000.

I tried to explain the issue, that they never send me the voucher, and due to that I would be on the hook for extra costs? The support agent was totally uncooperative, and just kept asking "what would you like to do". Turned into a bit of a shouting match.

In the end I had my flight cancelled, and a voucher was issued straight away.

I still don't understand why they couldn't just look at their own logs, realize they actually didn't send the voucher, and just book me on the original flight. Or why the first support agent couldn't just use my voucher to pay for the flight.

This was also a business class flight, so I can't imagine how economy passengers are treated.

I believe that in the example you’ve given, you also need to demonstrate that the person who provided the services was also outside of Hong Kong.

I haven’t really looked into this offshore exemption, since I’m living here as well.

I only used my account for about 2 months, because it caused a lot of confusion. Your account name was prefixed with “NEAT”, so few of my clients just ignored that and money never arrived. Switched to AirWallex and never looked back.

Definitely was easy for me, I first used Neat (now Rapyd), and currently using AirWallex. Both applications took about 2 days or so.

Hong Kong is another option, incorporation fees are quite low + ongoing cost is relatively low.

Corporate fees capped at 16.5%, with the first 2 million HKD only 8.25%.

Can all be done online and remotely as well.

Additional benefit that you can apply for an APEC visa to make traveling around easier.

I’ve gotten that visa countless times at the Lok Ma Chau border crossing, never had to wait more than 15-30 minutes really.

There’s now also 15-day visa free travel if you’re one of 6 countries: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-67516777

I love stockevents, it's what got me started into building a semi dividend based portfolio.

I remember there was this video of a plane in Russia that was on fire, multiple people died. And you see people walking away with their luggage, can’t help it think people would still be alive if it wasn’t for those who so urgently needed their suitcases.

I’ve always wondered what happens after an emergency landing. Do you just kinda sit there and wait for bags and personal belongings to be offloaded? And then wait for another flight out?