Hacker News: pqvst

Apple: The First 50 Years

pqvst — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 02:38:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.applefirst50.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47318494

Points: 1

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New comment by pqvst in "Ask HN: How do you handle VAT / Sales Tax accounting as B2C SaaS?"

pqvst — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 03:22:35 +0000

Sphere looks quite promising, and I haven't come across them before. Their coverage looks pretty good as well, and pricing sounds reasonable. It looks like they have a Stripe integration. Is that something you're using?

New comment by pqvst in "Ask HN: How do you handle VAT / Sales Tax accounting as B2C SaaS?"

pqvst — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 03:17:46 +0000

I run a B2C SaaS business. We're an EU company. We use Stripe for all billing, and we use Stripe Checkout and Stripe Tax for all of our tax calculations. We've built our own tools to generate monthly/quarterly tax summary reports from our Stripe payments data.

Luckily most of our business is in the EU, so as an EU company, filing our EU VAT is easy.

We used Avalara for 1 year in order to setup VAT registration in Norway. We chose Avalara because they do in fact provide full service solutions for VAT (registration, filing, and remittance). However, they are expensive and were AWFUL to work with: poor communication/support, no integration with Stripe, and we had to manually generate carefully structured Excel files in order to import our sales data. We cancelled our contract with them after 1 year, but were able to take over the filing account from them and now our in-house accountant does the filing and remittance (which is quick, easy, and MUCH cheaper).

We have considered something like Paddle, but it is difficult to justify the increased fees as our business grows. For the amount of money we'd be spending on Paddle in extra fees vs Stripe, we may as well just use a service provider or hire our own staff.

With Stripe Tax we can easily monitor our thresholds in other countries. There are some countries that technically require registration for even a single transaction in that country, which is ridiculous. I imagine for most companies it is definitely not feasible to register, file, and remit in all of those countries.

iOS 18 supports bilingual keyboards

pqvst — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 02:01:18 +0000

I just updated to iOS 18 and realized it supports bilingual keyboards, something I've always been wishing for.

As someone who is always switching between English and Swedish keyboards, I am constantly accidentally using the wrong keyboard and having auto-correct change everything I'm trying to write.

With the bilingual keyboard I can always have Swedish keyboard layout, but auto-correct detects what language I'm typing.

I couldn't find any official feature information about this from Apple. I wonder what other languages are supported.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41875742

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by pqvst in "Gmail and Yahoo’s 2024 inbox protections and what they mean for email programs"

pqvst — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 01:39:56 +0000

From Q1 2024, Gmail and Yahoo will require senders to have SPF, DKIM, and DMARC. Also, spam complaints must be kept below 0.3%.

I recently added DMARC monitoring to some of my domains through CloudFlare.

Gmail and Yahoo’s 2024 inbox protections and what they mean for email programs

pqvst — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 01:39:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.mailgun.com/blog/deliverability/gmail-and-yahoo-inbox-updates-2024/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38935048

Points: 379

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New comment by pqvst in "Demystifying Web Push Notifications"

pqvst — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 15:22:33 +0000

Yes. That is a good point. I'll update the post and recommend using a local tool instead.

New comment by pqvst in "Demystifying Web Push Notifications"

pqvst — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 13:12:53 +0000

Huh. What browser?

New comment by pqvst in "Demystifying Web Push Notifications"

pqvst — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 13:12:21 +0000

Thanks :)

New comment by pqvst in "Demystifying Web Push Notifications"

pqvst — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 13:11:45 +0000

Thanks! I didn't realize web-push had a way to generate the keys until later. Also it was just easier to use the vapidkeys site.

Demystifying Web Push Notifications

pqvst — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 22:38:20 +0000

Article URL: https://pqvst.com/2023/11/21/web-push-notifications/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38425769

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Building my own expense tracker as a PWA

pqvst — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 06:19:50 +0000

Article URL: https://pqvst.com/2023/10/23/one-day-build-expense-tracking/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37982188

Points: 3

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Slack adds “Show workspace switcher” (thank you)

pqvst — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 18:07:53 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/slack_community/status/1704537928301457812

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37587629

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Review of Korean Generative AI: Wrtn

pqvst — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 17:58:06 +0000

Article URL: https://tzling.com/2023/09/04/KR_Generative_AI_Wrtn_ChatGPT_en/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37395398

Points: 1

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Transatlantic Coworking-Cruise on the Queen Mary 2

pqvst — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 17:42:50 +0000

Article URL: https://pqvst.com/2023/08/24/coworking-crossing-the-atlantic/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37252128

Points: 5

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Going Multi-Region with Zero DevOps

pqvst — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 14:16:35 +0000

Article URL: https://pqvst.com/2023/06/30/going-multi-region-with-zero-devops/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36535342

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Tech in Amsterdam

pqvst — Wed, 31 May 2023 10:27:14 +0000

I built a simple site that lists all tech events, meetups, and conferences taking place in Amsterdam.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36136663

Points: 3

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Exploring Taipei Underground (longest underground walkable distance)

pqvst — Mon, 29 May 2023 11:26:57 +0000

Article URL: https://pqvst.com/2023/05/28/taipei-underground/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36112908

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by pqvst in "Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?"

pqvst — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 13:01:57 +0000

Started AwardFares (https://awardfares.com) back in 2018. It's a search engine for finding flights to book using your airline miles. Started as a side-project, completely bootstrapped and self-funded.

We hit $2k monthly revenue after about 1.5 years. Growth completely stopped during COVID, but is now growing very well (more than 10x that).

New comment by pqvst in "MacBook owners have two months to claim up to $395 over butterfly keyboard woes"

pqvst — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 14:57:52 +0000

I shared my insane MBP repair history on HN last year (including 5 top-case replacements and 2 complete laptop replacements): https://pqvst.com/2021/08/24/my-macbook-pro/

Kind of funny, I'm still on my most recent replacement/repaired unit, and it's still working great since my AppleCare Protection Plan expired (knock on wood). But I guess it's only a matter of time until I'll have to buy a new one.