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Re:Ask HN: Where to start an international SaaS company (as a South Af... on Friday October 21, 2022 @02:54AM (#33285286)

Really interesting, I wasn't considering Eastern Europe. The article does a great job talking about a lot of the considerations, but I have a gut feeling that operating from a country where I'm not very familiar with their language and political stability will be harder in the long term.

Its a good point on the trademarks and all the legal stuff, thanks.

Re:Ask HN: Where to start an international SaaS company (as a South Af... on Friday October 21, 2022 @02:50AM (#33285253)

thanks! do you have experience using them?

Re:Ask HN: Where to start an international SaaS company (as a South Af... on Friday October 21, 2022 @02:48AM (#33285243)

Thanks for the suggestion. I worked in the US for a year, so I did get a SSN then, but I'm not sure it would be usable for starting a company, so I would probably need to look at using a start-your-business agency like you suggested.

Mercury looks interesting, I haven't seen them before, will take a look.

Ask HN: Where to start an international SaaS company (as a South African)

Posted by duncanphillips on Thursday October 20, 2022 @01:58PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm a South African looking to start a global tech company, but the business climate for starting a company in South Africa makes it a bad option.What are the options for countries in which to start a business remotely? If anyone has experience they would be happy to share, I would love to hear where folks decided to found and what their experience has been?Extra context - I'm looking at...

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Re:Ask HN: What stack are you using for static sites with a CMS on Monday October 03, 2022 @02:27PM (#33071629)

thanks, appreciated

Ask HN: What stack are you using for static sites with a CMS

Posted by duncanphillips on Sunday October 02, 2022 @06:57AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Hiya! I'm building out a static site that requires occasional content changes.I'm thinking of building the frontend with a static site generator like hugo, and pulling the content from a CMS like strapi on build (triggered when cms is updated).Keen to hear how others are approaching this?

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Re:Ask HN: Can you browse the web via taxonomy? on Friday July 22, 2022 @04:40AM (#32189902)

interesting, found a couple more - https://www.jasminedirectory.com/ - http://www.stpt.com/directory/ - http://vlib.org/

seems like it never really took off, too hard to maintain i guess.

Ask HN: Can you browse the web via taxonomy?

Posted by duncanphillips on Friday July 22, 2022 @03:09AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm wondering if anyone has attempted to categorize sites or domains into a taxonomy and allow for browsing (and searching) within a well defined structure?

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