You mean marketing of open source projects located on Github where you help them procure more stars in exchange for money?

No :)

Well 2023 is finished, so I guess 2024? :)

No, it's just SEO gaming

You give value in the end. People do enjoy the competition and win prizes

It's because it was released on my blog (Gitroom), so it's the same title. It fits mostly open-source companies :)

It's a blogpost about marketing not engineering, and the submission will no doubt be used in the future as an example of "growth hacking" (i.e Trending on HN is an achievement)

I think their point was that the title on HN and the blog was inaccurate based on the content of the post itself

Indeed. Seems like the title should be "how to run hackathons to get github activity".

And the "in 2024" part... A few ways this can be interpreted:

- How things are going to be different from prior years. First thing that came to mind... "AI tooling must feature a lot now?" Maybe this will be an article about what guidelines to have for use of ChatGPT? (or maybe that it's a non-issue)

- When it was written... seems to be what the author had in mind based on another comment.

This is interesting! Do you know any payment providers that work with them? BlueSnap / Paddle etc? How much did it cost you to incorporate?

I googled it, and it turns out my former accountant (who I'd highly recommend) maintains a list: https://www.katzand.co/isle-of-man-payment-gateway/

Incorporation is cheap (if I remember correctly?), but you basically need a service provider to sign off on your accounts, VAT, and so on, so the cost is more ongoing expenses than setup costs.

Send a WhatsApp or email to Katz & Co from the link above -- they'll be happy to break it down, they're super nice, and they're very on the ball too.

I was thinking about that. I had a friend who had done it.

I know people suffer a bit from Rapyd after the acquisition

I only used my account for about 2 months, because it caused a lot of confusion. Your account name was prefixed with “NEAT”, so few of my clients just ignored that and money never arrived. Switched to AirWallex and never looked back.

I think you need to have some business in Hong Kong to open a bank account there. But that's ok, you can open a bank account in a different country.

I have head quite much about Wyoming! What's the difference between Wyoming and Delaware for LLCs?

I can't run blow for blow what'll work for you.

https://taxfoundation.org/location/wyoming/

https://taxfoundation.org/location/delaware/

For example.

But it's not just about tax. For privacy and having a Delaware-like specific business litigation process should you ever need it, Nevada's advantageous over Wyoming without needing much more in tax. Then for access to finance, a location that'll let you open a bank account for the business can be important (this might depend on US state). So there's a bit of YMMV, but nothing an Ask HN can't fix!