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Looks great. How long until it does P2P via Bluetooth?

Like Bump did before it was shut down by Google.

Try Pumble. We switched years ago.

How about reporting on yesterday's weather? Its hard to plan a walk in the forest today if I dont know how much it rained yesterday.

Can't wait to test the quality. Looks really practical fir digital nomads.

We switched to Pumble years ago for price, longer data retention & more consistency.

What a great story teller! Well done Alex.

Classic!

Starting a business selling software is actually a big job. Even giving code away with OpenSource licensing brings liability risks.

You'll need to find a business model that pays enough to keep your product going.

Maybe you need a suite of micro tools, sold as a single package, that can earn enough to pay for the business costs.

Very cool. Especially as it a real map not a 'network diagram' who is so confusing.

thank you

Peter, I'm curious as to the easiest way for Australian founders to get a long stay visa and work permit for the US while working for their own (Delaware) company?

You're right. Most accountants make their money from local businesses. And global accounting firms charge the earth. It's easier to separate You're bookkeeping from your (expensive) accountants who are better set for strategic advice.

What a big question. With so many new sales taxes hitting rhe world its now a nightmare for us global companies, especially in the digital services and the travel industry.

We employ our own bookkeepers (in Africa) who operate a range of accounting systems for each company in the group (5 countries).

As CEO I tend to do the teaching and review but the team does the lodgement. (I am an Australian Chartered Accountant and former tax agent so get the rules fairly easily).

Most lodgements are online. The US is the exception. We also find there are free services for lodging electronically.

A lot of the accounting systems are way overpriced so we don't use many of their up market solutions.

We have built our own invoicing and Billing system this week with AI so expect we'll create more of our own apps over the coming year.

My bookkeeping team has some spare capacity so let me know if we can maybe help you out.

I'm so impressed with the concept of this agent but sorry, I can't have you accessing all my corporate data and systems because I access them via browser.

Perhaps you could create both a Public and Corporate version of the extension, like Copilot does. The Corporate version could have access to all browser data but not share it beyond the bounds of the company.

Huh?

Why is there a mix up? Any Aussie knows a baby kangaroo is called a joey.

Are you sure the sitcom didn't name the role after a baby kangaroo?

What do you mean? Their marketing pages offer 0% rates for card acceptance

This is quite useful. Apartment renters can now create their own ical feeds for booking platforms.

You know in Europe the card merchants are limited to about 1.3%. And the US could regulate this as well. In Australia you can add the card commission on top of the purchase easily. (Much easier than Stripe for instance).

To save payment fees there are probably easier sections of the payment process to focus on. For instance why do so many merchant banks insist on mandatory FX into 1 currency. This limitation means if I use Stripe I end up paying 9% commissions.

Do you have some use cases that can show different ways of using the service?

AirWallex

We swapped to AirWallex but note card acceptance is limited to companies that are controlled by directors with the same residence.

Eg US LLCs not owned by US residents can't get card acceptance.

Does anyone seriously use Microsoft OneDrive for backup?

It's 300,000 file limit means pretty much no developer would risk it considering the thousands of files in a typical app.

Believe me when OneDrive lost a heap of my files this year I was not impressed to learn of this serious limitation. To be fair GoogleDrive and DropBox also have similar limitations.

Azure Storage on the other hand doesn't have the limitation, is much cheaper and much faster. It's UI sux though.

I'm still searching for a reasonable cloud backup solution. Until then cheap external drives are the answer.

There's a Secure Folder on Samsung phones. It requires a pin code to access & you can store a lot of apps in there, but it pretty weak.

Since reading these police access reports from the US I tried using the Secure Folder.

As a digital nomad for past 9 years I visit 10-20 countries a year, so lots of border crossings.

Secure Folder sadly doesn't allow you to hide all your disclosing apps inside.

Certain apps like browsers still need to be run inside your main section, and therefore accessible from a fingerprint login.

And a phone without finger or face login is too cumbersome for digital entrepreneurs in this day & age.

So the idea of shutting off the phone as you cross borders seems to be the best approach for us nomads.

I note the court case wasn't about a border crossing so I'm still looking for practical solutions.

Not being American I, like many, am almost paranoid visiting the US with all its foibles.

Surprisingly the researchers missed major features of the digital nomad appeal.

1. A strong desire to get more out of life. 2. The fact that marketing to this niche is psychographical not demographical.

Not new concepts in the travel, or other industries, but as the numbers of people associating with digital nomadism grows, the niche can open up larger markets.

My own 4 year old startup, Nomad Stays, was created to solve some of the lifestyle sourcing issues that living 9 years as a digital nomad, and visiting over 100 countries had shown me was hard.

Dropbox & OneDrive both have file number limitations. After loading files & days of failed syncing I've moved away from each.

Google Drive also had syncing issues on their Windows app & stores images in a reduced way.

Haven't used iCloud for years as need auto syncing from Win PCs as well.

Will be trying some of gge suggestions listed below too now. Thanks for the topic.

Wow. So opposite to.me.

I'm nearly 60, and have been in tech 37 years. I wake up even more enthused every day.

Don't you have you employees under non-compete contracts?

Didn't you use a vesting table for the shares?

As I wrote a year ago the range of new digital nomad visas are largely poor attempts at attracting more tourism dollars.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/digital-nomad-visa-dilemma-ma...

Most digital nomads still don't use them as other Commenters have outlined, they are cumbersome, expensive & don't address the taxation elements well.

Digital Nomad entrepreneurs can often work under standard 'tourist' visas in any case if they stick to the 'business' rules attached to those visas in any case.

While Permanent Establishment rules scare many employers off permitting much remote work for their employees.

With competition between countries to attract tourism the current version 1 DN visas will need to change to become attractors.

I'd suggest removing the 30/90 limit from tourism visas is an easy way to improve tourism economics.

Changing taxation policies will take longer but are also needed as the remote worker world grows so strongly & favour 'tax friendly' nations.

Am so pleased to have visited the Principality and spent some time with Prince Leonard.

Now the land is sold I wonder what happens with their UN country status.

Zcal.co is also my favourite calendaring app.

I include meeting links to our Whereby.com account which is by far the best video conferencing app around. No BS invitations, scheduling, codes etc. Just knock and enter the room.