I was an e-resident for 10 years, had a company and paid all taxes, but this year they refused to prolong it due to my nationality. So, I don't recommend Estonia at all, they can easily screw you over at any time. :(
Since I'm looking for a replacement atm, what's the best US state to register a simple and cheap LLC for a foreigner?
The classic answer is Delaware because that's what everyone else does so there are scale effects. Practically this means that Delaware's legal and banking system is extremely experienced with business customers.
At the level of having, say, a mom and pop LLC, most states are about the same, eg you need to do about the same amount of minimal paperwork to register the name, have an agent in state who can receive legal notices for you, etc. Virginia for example isn't much more work than DE.
If you really don't want to do a lot of leg work, there are services like Stripe Atlas that will do it all for you. I haven't used them but they seem to be targeting the startup/HN crowd.
Finally Wyoming and Nevada have some features of LLCs that you might find attractive, such as keeping the ownership structure out of public records. Personally, and unfairly to NV, I think of NV LLCs as slightly sketchy because for a couple of years all the ones I saw were weird businesses that promised "incredible investment opportunities!!!" in some revolutionary technology or other, thermodynamics be damned.
Well, I did a small research and I couldn't find any cases of the US government discriminating foreign business owners by passport. There are several cases in the EU, but the US looks clear so far. Hence my interest in that location.
I’m flying an ultralight in Europe and my IAS is in km/h. And to be frank, probably all UL and PPL aircraft I’ve seen nearby use km/h, not knots. Not sure why it is so, but it’s definitely easier for my brain. :)
Some time ago I've built an OpenCV-based real time masks plugin for my videoconference tool but unfortunately had to limit it to a single thread WASM version because of browser support. That resulted in 320x240 videos when mask was on. However as an experiment I also ran a 8-threaded version locally and its performance on a laptop from 2015 was more than enough for an almost 30fps stream with a standard video size.
Hehe, I had to do the same a week ago. The only difference is Slack’ing instead of mailing and also cart prepopulation because those delivery slots are taken out almost instantly in my city. This is in the EU btw, not specifying the country or chain to, well, to be able to survive longer.
Regarding Whereby, I used them actively until they became paid for groups bigger than four and introduced sign-up. Then I decided to build my own free solution porting many features in a form of plugins, to keep the main tool light and fast. You can check it out if interested: https://xroom.app
Exactly! socket.io was there mostly to speed up prototyping. I plan to replace it with vanilla code soon, to make the frontend app even more lightweight.
Right now it doesn't cost much to host. But soon I plan to create a proper plugin store (currently there are only a few plugins available to general public as you may see) and encourage people to develop and upload their own plugins, so I will have to scale up for all that. Regarding the backend, it's a node.js application.
Since I'm looking for a replacement atm, what's the best US state to register a simple and cheap LLC for a foreigner?
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