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Nik Spyratos
@nikspyratos
For personal writing I moved from Revue to Substack when Revue shut down.
Beehiiv looks good. I personally avoid them because one of their growth marketers cold emailed about my personal newsletter to my work account, which I found extremely unprofessional. I don't want to reward that behaviour.
One app I'm keen to try out going forward is MailCoach, as it seems solid & affordable. It's also run but Spatie, a big name in the Laravel world, so I know their Laravel support will be good. So it seems like the best of both worlds for non-techies and Laravel devs alike.
What about a different kind of free tier - limit by both amount of users, and time based? "30 day trial or 1000 users, whichever comes first".
I've seen this from the freelancing side. Having a network and community of peers helps quite a lot.
There seems to be a dual nature to Twitter/X right now. On the one hand, it sure is a dumpster fire.
On the other hand, indie hacker and tech niche communities have not moved from it, and continue to operate in it with great enthusiasm.
I've had one inbound client lead from my posting in my niche (I didn't take the job on for other reasons), and I'm by no means a known personality in my niche yet.
Overall, I think it'll still be of use for a fair while longer - it's going to take actual service disruption and potential shutdown to move some of these communities.
Thanks, Nik, for your really in-depth answer! I appreciate it.
I'll definitely do some more digging to make sure some potential clients are actively on there still. I'm not surprised the indie hacker + tech people are still loyal users, though! (I'd say even bootstrapped creators are still pretty active on there last time I check several months ago, even though they aren't necessarily my target audience - for this offer.)
They're both correct because these are actually two different topics: Tax residency is the one and "ultimate beneficial owner" - or alternatively "controlled foreign company" - is the other.
They relate to each other, but they're not the same thing. Helps a lot more with research with using the terminology.
THEN, you still get into Double Taxation Agreements between the countries you're dealing with, and how corporate income tax works between them.
I haven't directly done this yet, but I think logsnag.com will be pretty useful for the alertable side. It's more intended for general event tracking, but there's nothing stopping you from using it for specific notifications.
That way you can also keep things out of slack and emails and in its own app.
My test use case so far has been sending myself a daily push notification from my personal automation repo, which will contain basic financial stats, a quote, etc. Works pretty well.
That's really interesting, and a nice simple approach to Purchasing Power Parity which I didn't even talk about in the OP.
By the way, I forgot to mention there are services out there that calculate the GDP difference in real-time and provide the cost to individual visitors (most auto apply coupons to adjust the base price), but checking and adjusting prices every quarter is more than enough. 🙂