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From the outset, I learnt programming by craving to build a thing. It started with tic tac toe that I built in vb6 in school, with computer as a player, sound and lighting effects. Then I built a full-disk media player/ image explorer hybrid. Followed by a multilingual word processor with screen reader and brail keyboard input and ...Finally full-stack web apps.

At the core of my learning was always a desire – that I wanted to build this thing, and rest was the details that I figured out from the internet and MSDN CDs (yes, that used to be my primary and definitive source during initial years of learning.)

In my experience, when I'm passionate about building something, I do not need to motivate myself to learn the details.

Edit: Finally I also did post graduation in CS to cover the gaps of CS fundamentals. Degree is also essential for getting a job at reputed companies which usually have it as the first filter to auto-reject candidates.

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I see where you are coming from. It seems that you are already into selling emails business therefore you see others doing a legitimate thing as "harvesting emails to sell for millions." or maybe you are living in your own bubble and has never gone out to try to build something that non-technical can relate to solving their problem. Good luck and next time try to conduct yourself with little humility and that would go a long way in helping you achieve something.

The penalty requirement is recently waved off. I should update it. But the notice is required to be sent under the section 18B of FLSA. Also, if the employee does not receive the notice and he misses the open enrollment period, he can sue the employer later at any point.

The server is in fact in USA, if you could have cared to check. I think it would have been better had it been into India to safe it from NSA snooping. isn't it?

Keep on imposing your line of argument, and of course downvoting. But the truth is I was trying to solve a pain for small businesses most of which have not yet complied by sending the notification. It seems you never tried the website and started with your baseless arguments. Again with this website I have just made electronic delivery of the notification simpler as the same requires that "delivery is tracked". I just take employees email and name (optional) and basic business information necessary to prepare the model notice obtained from DOL website.

Solving somebody pain is a path to a startup, if you have some other definition please feel free to live by that.

I couldn't disagree more. With your line of argument, start ups shouldn't exist because "a dude from his garage cannot be trusted with business info." Anyway The information being asked can very well be bought/scraped if somebody needs to.

This is not a hoax – I'm the creater and I have no interest to collect and run away with your business information :-)

Read the government requirement here: http://www.dol.gov/ebsa/newsroom/tr13-02.html

Also this article to get more info: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-09-03/what-small-b...

However, your comment has costed the website to suddenly jump off the home page.

Similar thread (for invoices) I started a while back. Some useful services are mentioned there. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6353270

Thanks! This is good advice. Btw, if I have a written signed contract in place and if the client does not pay and I'm outside US, is it possible to hand over that case to an entity (like collection agency) in US to take care of?

Edit: Also, is there a standar contract template for a vendor/contractor that lays down these conditions in legit manner. For instance, how much interest you can legitimately charge for each day delayed ETC. Just curious.

I Don't think that he does not want to pay – because his major part of the business depends on that application I created and manage for him. So my ask is to use a tactic that makes him pay on time without creating bad impression for either of us.

In India online banking is awesome:

1) Most (all?) banks have net banking which is a feature to pay money directly from your bank account (and not via credit card) to online merchants those who integrate it (most of them do).

2) Many banks provide utilities payment (electricity/phone/cable ETC) feature which can be set to autopay.

3) there's a three factor authentication system – username and password to login and look around, transaction password to pay to your registered billers and finally for online shopping (net banking), you are asked to input 3 random numbers from the grid printed at the back of your debit card in addition to login and transaction password.

4) For any decent amount of payment received / paid (I think Rs. 5000 or above), you get an sms briefing the transaction.

5) Auto deduct feature – there's an ECS form you can sign and give it to businesses which can then automatically deduct money monthly from your bank account. Good for auto mortgage payments et al.

Checks have almost disappeared from internet savvy people's lives – I have hardly used them in years.

If you make content accessible for screen readers, you are effectively making content more accessible for search engines as well [0].

high accessibility overlaps heavily with effective white hat SEO. The goal of accessibility is to make web content accessible to as many people as possible, including those who experience that content under technical, physical, or other constraints. It may be useful to think of search engines as users with substantial constraints: they can’t read text in images, can’t interpret JavaScript or applets, and can’t “view” many other kinds of multimedia content. These are the types of problems that accessibility is supposed to solve in the first place.

[0] http://alistapart.com/article/accessibilityseo

Get active on social media (it may be hard, but is necessary). To get started read this: http://www.quicksprout.com/2013/08/15/7-simple-yet-effective...

At least in 2013, you can cancel it (my client did) and Azure has a default spending limit for trial accounts which, unless you remove, never gets you charged if you consume the trial usage and simply suspends your account. On the other hand, AWS doesn't have a spending limit concept for even free, one-year micro instance trial last I checked.

Web security and attack vectors, seriously. Will be helpful regardless of the technology you'll choose to build web apps.

Never heard of instamojo so I just checked it out. According to its FAQ [0],

> 5. When do I get paid. .... For offers selling in INR, the amount would be remitted to your Indian bank account if it has crossed minimum payment threshold of ₹500. For offers selling in USD, the amount would be remitted to your Paypal account

Since most of your customers will be paying in USD (I guess),, Instamojo will anyway be paying as per above to your Paypal account. So, IMO, you should sort out Paypal account. (Or talk to Instamojo if they have this option to directly convert USD payments to INR and remit them to your bank account.)

[0] https://www.instamojo.com/faq/

Seriously? I accept money using Paypal though 8 percent fee (4% receiving, and 4% conversion) really sucks. Also, it has mandatory daily auto-transfer to your bank which also sucks for things as refunds ETC.

But you can definitely accept money using premium/business acounts. Premium account requires only your PAN.

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