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Romain Simon

Romain Simon

@romainsimon

I'm just the human in the loop
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Joined August 2023
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I think the main reason it works like this is because you need the marketing team to be able to edit the website without having to rely on the engineering team.

This is not a concern for solo/bootstrapped projects, and it's way more convenient to have everything at the same place imo.

The second reason is the marketing website needs to be more optimized for SEO, so if what you're using to build the app has no SSR support it might not be the best choice.

I just finished reading:
The Quality Growth Investor - 2024 Edition

I'm currently reading:
1. The Singularity is Nearer by Ray Kurzweil
2. The Dice Man

Some of the books I want to read:
- The simple path to wealth
- Thinking fast and slow
- The 7 Habits of highly effective people
- Principles
- Quiet, the power of introverts
- The Holographic Universe
- Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
- The psychology of money
- A short history of nearly everything
- The creative act
- Outliers, the story of success

I really liked "The simple path to wealth" and "The psychology of money". Honestly, these are the only two books most people need to learn about money.
They need to be in schools, especially the second one.

I would just also add:

  1. invoice.payment_failed : Notify yourself or customer
  2. customer.subscription.deleted : To handle when subscription is cancelled

I would just rewrite the copy a bit to make it shorter and more impactful.

Ex:
gc lets new projects grow audience and revenue with collabs
->
Grow audience and revenue with collabs

Whatever you start—new product, game, blog, podcast, or any other project—collab with like-minded creators and builders for cross-promo and revenue sharing.
->
Start cross-promotions for new products, games, blogs, podcasts

Yes but I don't have any issue.
Maybe don't hesitate to drop them questions, they are usually fast to answer: [email protected]

I've been using Xolo for 3+ years. They have integrations with Stripe and handle everything for you.

Nice! Thanks for sharing.

Do you have non-EU customers? I understand Xolo doesn't do your taxes in that case. I have a lot of revenue% coming from the US, so I'm curious as to what Xolo users do for taxes.

Yes but I don't have any issue.
Maybe don't hesitate to drop them questions, they are usually fast to answer: [email protected]

(and I choosed Degiro first because it was cheaper than IBKR at the time, which is not true anymore)

Makes sense, thanks again Romain šŸ˜€

I found the videos from this Spanish youtuber quite good, and he is also a certified financial advisor:
youtu.be/Yv_Mmf3QzkU?si=Lynw3…

I was thinking about it but transfering positions is quite costly (around 100€ per position it seems) and I don't want to sell as I would have to pay taxes.
Anyway, I'm thinking having two brokers is probably not such a bad idea though it's not very practical

(and I choosed Degiro first because it was cheaper than IBKR at the time, which is not true anymore)

Makes sense, thanks again Romain šŸ˜€

I found the videos from this Spanish youtuber quite good, and he is also a certified financial advisor:
youtu.be/Yv_Mmf3QzkU?si=Lynw3…

I'm using both Degiro & Interactive Brokers, and I can say that even IBKR is better for many reasons.

Here are a few quick tips :

  1. I personnaly don't like the mobile app compared to Degiro. I would advise trying the web app first.

  2. Contrary to Degiro, you need to take care of currency conversion if you have EUR and wants to invest in USD

  3. IBKR is paying you interest just to hold cash (you need above 100k USD and holdin USD pays more than EUR) : www.interactivebrokers.com/en…

  4. Reporting is way better. You can benchmark your performance vs an index. Try PortfolioAnalyst on the top tab "Performance & Reports"

  5. You can earn extra cash by lending shares. It's not much, but you need to optin to their Stock Yield Enhancement Program : www.interactivebrokers.com/en… (click on your name on the tap bar, then settings and you should see it on the page.

  6. There are no free ETFs, but some are very low cost. You can use www.justetf.com to find them.

Some examples :

S&P 500 (low fees)
SPYL / 0.03% / accumulating (EUR/USD)

S&P 500 (higher fees but larger fund)
SXR8 - 0.07% / accumulating (EUR)

Hope it helps a bit :)

Thank you very much!

Why do you keep using Degiro?

I was thinking about it but transfering positions is quite costly (around 100€ per position it seems) and I don't want to sell as I would have to pay taxes.
Anyway, I'm thinking having two brokers is probably not such a bad idea though it's not very practical

(and I choosed Degiro first because it was cheaper than IBKR at the time, which is not true anymore)

Makes sense, thanks again Romain šŸ˜€

I found the videos from this Spanish youtuber quite good, and he is also a certified financial advisor:
youtu.be/Yv_Mmf3QzkU?si=Lynw3…

Select a word + cmd + d.
I use this all the time to edit multiple lines at the same time.

Did not know this one! I'll add it to my toolbox thank you!

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