<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: imarkphillips</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=imarkphillips</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 19:22:41 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=imarkphillips" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by imarkphillips in "Anthropic, please make a new Slack"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Try Pumble. We switched years ago.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:36:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47282050</link><dc:creator>imarkphillips</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47282050</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47282050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by imarkphillips in "Acme Weather"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>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.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 10:04:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47099234</link><dc:creator>imarkphillips</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47099234</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47099234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by imarkphillips in "Show HN: I built an international calling platform for the past 6 months"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can't wait to test the quality. Looks really practical fir digital nomads.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2026 09:42:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46486478</link><dc:creator>imarkphillips</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46486478</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46486478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by imarkphillips in "Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We switched to Pumble years ago for price, longer data retention & more consistency.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2025 03:40:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45285060</link><dc:creator>imarkphillips</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45285060</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45285060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by imarkphillips in "Finding a former Australian prime minister’s passport number on Instagram (2020)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What a great story teller! Well done Alex.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2025 03:52:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44419179</link><dc:creator>imarkphillips</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44419179</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44419179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by imarkphillips in "Solving `Passport Application` with Haskell"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Classic!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2025 03:52:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44410231</link><dc:creator>imarkphillips</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44410231</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44410231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by imarkphillips in "Ask HN: How do you monetize personal code if it's not an "app"?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Starting a business selling software is actually a big job. Even giving code away with OpenSource licensing brings liability risks.<p>You'll need to find a business model that pays enough to keep your product going.<p>Maybe you need a suite of micro tools, sold as a single package, that can earn enough to pay for the business costs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2025 07:30:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43670826</link><dc:creator>imarkphillips</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43670826</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43670826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by imarkphillips in "Live Map of the London Underground"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Very cool. Especially as it a real map not a 'network diagram' who is so confusing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2025 08:22:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43651562</link><dc:creator>imarkphillips</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43651562</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43651562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by imarkphillips in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>thank you</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2025 16:49:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43364457</link><dc:creator>imarkphillips</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43364457</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43364457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by imarkphillips in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>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?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2025 15:11:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43363402</link><dc:creator>imarkphillips</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43363402</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43363402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by imarkphillips in "Ask HN: How do you handle VAT / Sales Tax accounting as B2C SaaS?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>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.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2025 23:02:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43338053</link><dc:creator>imarkphillips</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43338053</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43338053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by imarkphillips in "Ask HN: How do you handle VAT / Sales Tax accounting as B2C SaaS?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>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.<p>We employ our own bookkeepers (in Africa) who operate a range of accounting systems for each company in the group (5 countries).<p>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).<p>Most lodgements are online. The US is the exception. We also find there are free services for lodging electronically.<p>A lot of the accounting systems are way overpriced so we don't use many of their up market solutions.<p>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.<p>My bookkeeping team has some spare capacity so let me know if we can maybe help you out.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2025 22:59:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43338030</link><dc:creator>imarkphillips</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43338030</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43338030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by imarkphillips in "Show HN: We're building a desktop app for browser-based AI agents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>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.<p>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.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Feb 2025 09:48:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42907550</link><dc:creator>imarkphillips</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42907550</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42907550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by imarkphillips in "Siri mixes up baby kangaroo with Friends sitcom actor"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Huh?<p>Why is there a mix up? Any Aussie knows a baby kangaroo is called a joey.<p>Are you sure the sitcom didn't name the role after a baby kangaroo?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:49:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42539921</link><dc:creator>imarkphillips</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42539921</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42539921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by imarkphillips in "Creem: The payment platform that calls BS on hidden fees"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What do you mean? Their marketing pages offer 0% rates for card acceptance</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Dec 2024 14:34:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42515391</link><dc:creator>imarkphillips</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42515391</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42515391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by imarkphillips in "Anthropic Claude 3.5 can create icalendar files, so I did this"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is quite useful. Apartment renters can now create their own ical feeds for booking platforms.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Aug 2024 09:11:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41345773</link><dc:creator>imarkphillips</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41345773</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41345773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by imarkphillips in "Ask HN: Do we need to pay billions in fees to Stripe, Block, PayPal and Visa/MC?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>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).<p>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.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 17 Aug 2024 17:54:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41276449</link><dc:creator>imarkphillips</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41276449</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41276449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by imarkphillips in "Show HN: I made a credit system API"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do you have some use cases that can show different ways of using the service?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2024 05:51:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41178582</link><dc:creator>imarkphillips</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41178582</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41178582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by imarkphillips in "Changes to Stripe Billing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>AirWallex</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jul 2024 07:15:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40934359</link><dc:creator>imarkphillips</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40934359</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40934359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by imarkphillips in "Changes to Stripe Billing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We swapped to AirWallex but note card acceptance is limited to companies that are controlled by directors with the same residence.<p>Eg US LLCs not owned by US residents can't get card acceptance.</p>
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