Working on improving https://dartsva.com/ (Mainly content marketing). A new idea that spun up from that is an agentic OpenGraph image tool. E.g. for the blogs for dartsva I am creating og images with that script and via agents which works very well.
Why is that even necessary in the first place? Thats what people hate about bureaucracy. Why can't we just submit a form somewhere from home and someone looks over it from a queue. In the meantime you are allowed to start your business already. Bad process here. No process is 100% times better. An async one with forgiveness is getting you 80% there.
I am working on Stripe Tax, but do not know Lemon Squeezy so well yet. But something Lemon Squeezy does different are the following: the KYC works different and is more restrictive. One of the differences to Stripe considering we still give you as a merchant the responsibility to be tax-compliant after all (you need to add tax registrations into stripe explicitly). Also think about maybe fraudulent cases, LS must be much more restrictive otherwise their payment provider is blocking them.
One thing which is weird about tax is physical presences in some cases. In some countries, you actually might need a representative to file your taxes. Plus you need to learn how to register in those countries and how to file taxes.
There are probably more things that you need to look up, but that’s what I remember.
MoR for marketplaces basically means merchant of record for Stripe Connect and you, as the platform, take the tax liability via the MoR functionality automatically for your sellers (connected accounts), right?
Mind sending me an email at kevinpeters at stripe dot com? Would love to hear about the use case.
This looks nice and similar to toucan [1]. I have built something similar but a bit different for the web [2]. Happy, to share the code in a non-so-permissive license with you if you plan to build out web support.
Free tools work great for traffic. What’s the best way to convert users into paying users after?
I have tried a lot of things for my side project like limited generations of the output and then putting a signup requirement if you want to use the tool more often but people are simply not converting to the main solution.
Love tRPC. I have built two side projects [1][2] now with it and its just so smooth. When I introduced the tool to some other people I worked with, they were amazed on how fast it is. Usually it takes some time to create frontend schemas from backend endpoints but tRPC is just so fast.
Thanks to the creator. Literally made me a more efficient developer!
* Platform to organize internal hackathons: https://hackathon.camp
* Tool to create glossaries within your corporations and have them everywhere in the browser with a tooltip: https://tooltipr.com
- https://caseconverter.pro/app - was more experimentation than anything else, paste a JSON and get converted keys
- https://getworkrecognized.com - Could never reach market-fit with that. Wanted to really focus on the employee sides with brag documents but no employee will ever pay by themselves for such a tool
- http://linkedium.com - was a LinkedIn Scheduling tool, was just annoyed at some point with that. Might spin it up again this year. So never launched
Might put them up for sell somewhere. Maybe someone is interested to grow these or find product-market fit. But focusing on some other ideas I have right now.
What I learnt: I am really bad at Marketing and Sales and have a lot to learn there. Will focus on other target customers and trying to niche down with the projects I am working on right now and want to work on soon. Maybe finding someone who is good at it and partnering up might be something to look into.
Also, SEO and content is working to generate traffic. If you can convert the traffic it is a goldmine. The Google Search Console for getworkrecognized looks promising honestly.
Past projects: