Part 2: How to collect money without accidentally summoning a tax inspector
A German solopreneur's guide to collecting payments without tax headaches. From PayPal to Paddle, and what to do when inspectors visit.
- Bootstrapping
- Germany
- Taxes
Articles
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Most people don't understand B2B SaaS
Discover the hidden advantages of B2B SaaS from a successful founder. Learn why businesses are great clients, how to thrive without a sales team, and the challenges of marketing in niche markets.
- Bootstrapping
- B2B SaaS
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Bootstrapping a SaaS Business in Germany: How I did it
Lukas Hermann, founder of Stagetimer, delves into the nitty-gritty of bootstrapping a SaaS business in Germany. Learn about navigating bureaucracy, tax management, pricing, product development, tech stack, marketing, and more. A must-read for aspiring German entrepreneurs.
- Bootstrapping
- Germany
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Ein SaaS-Unternehmen in Deutschland bootstrappen: So habe ich's gemacht
Lukas Hermann, Gründer von Stagetimer, zeigt wie er ein SaaS-Unternehmen in Deutschland eigenfinanziert aufgebaut hat. Erfahre Details zu Bürokratie, Steuermanagement, Preisgestaltung, Produktentwicklung, Tech, Marketing und vieles mehr. Ein Muss für angehende deutsche Unternehmer.
- Bootstrapping
- Deutschland
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My Journey with Bootstrapped B2B SaaS Success: Twitter AMA Key Takeaways
Discover the key insights from a bootstrapped B2B SaaS founder's Twitter AMA, including growth strategies, tech stack, and lessons learned.
- Bootstrapping
- Growth
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Growing Our Google Clicks from Zero to 3,500 Monthly Visits in 1.5 Years: A Journey
Learn how to grow your website's Google clicks from zero without funding or prior experience. Follow the journey of a bootstrapped business and discover the strategies they used to succeed.
- SEO
- Growth
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Programmatic SEO in 2023: A Step-by-Step Guide
Learn how to optimize your website's search engine rankings with programmatic SEO in this step-by-step guide. From choosing a keyword to the end result, we'll cover all the basics to help you succeed.
- SEO
- Growth
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Exploring the Use of Style Modifiers in Midjourney AI Image Generation (With Examples)
Learn how to use style modifiers in prompts for Mid-Journey AI image generation to create a wide range of visual effects and styles. See examples of generated images using different modifiers, and get a comprehensive list of modifiers grouped into different categories.
- Generative AI
- Midjourney
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Launching on Product Hunt, a noir story
It was a dark and stormy night. The kind of night that made you want to stay inside with a good book and a cup of tea. But I had a job to do. I was brooding over my new product, ready to take it to the masses.
- Story
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Nov & Dec 2021: The experience of switching jobs
The last 45 days saw me leaving my full-time job at Laserhub and starting employment at Seervision. In between, I had two weeks of vacation which I used to work on my side project stagetimer.io
- Monthly Update
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October 2021: Solid growth and enjoyable work
October was marked by solid growth of paying customers for Stagetimer. Working on it now is more exciting than when I started with it late last year. But while my side project continues to grow and my days at Laserhub come to an end, I am also trying to enjoy life more.
- Monthly Update
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September 2021: I found a co-founder
It's time for me to move on from my current day-job. Visitor numbers for Stagetimer are on the rise. A big feature droped and my wife joins me as co-founder.
- Monthly Update
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August 2021: Marketing like a real engineer
Like a real engineer I decided to spend most my month of marketing with refactoring the page. The static site generator Astro makes it easier to optimize pages for SEO.
- Monthly Update
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July 2021: I have to learn marketing
I want to learn how to create a business. As a software developer I like adding features. But as a founder, I have to learn marketing.
- Monthly Update
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June 2021: Launching my first app
My first monthly update. Why I made Stagetimer and how I got my first subscribers.
- Monthly Update
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Schedule Script Execution in a Node.js Docker Image with Cron
Cron is a popular tool to schedule tasks, it comes pre-installed on almost any Linux image such as Debian or Ubuntu. Most answers on StackOverflow suggest installing extra packages or building a custom image, but neither approach is necessary. The vanilla Node.js Docker image has everything needed to schedule the execution of javascript files.
- Docker
- Cron
- JS
- Node
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European VAT basics for SaaS founders: What you need to know about sales tax when starting
I am creating a SaaS business from Germany. Here’s what I figured out so far about sales tax and value-added tax (VAT) when selling my subscriptions in Europe and globally. This guide assumes your business is in Germany or another European member state.
- SaaS
- Business
- Taxes
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Debouncing User Input with Vue: Delay the input event until the user stops typing
Persisting user input to the server without the need for "Submit" or "Save" buttons but as the user types. So-called "debouncing" can achieve this by waiting until the user stopped typing before sending the HTTP request to the server.
- HTML
- JS
- Vue
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Using socket.io with Vue and Vuex
A how-to guide for using socket.io with Vue components and inside the Vuex store with examples.
- JS
- Websockets
- Vue
- Vuex
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Why the iPhone Timer App displays a Fake Time
While building a timer app I came across a peculiarity with displaying time and found out that the iPhone timer addresses it by showing you a fake time.
- ios
- js
- project
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Splitting an OBS Stream to multiple YouTube Channels
Recently Joel Media needed to distribute a live stream from OBS Studio to four YouTube channels simultaneously. OBS Studio itself doesn’t provide a way to define more than one output, therefore we had to find a way to split the stream into four.
- Docker
- Nginx
- OBS
- Streaming
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Unity: Highlight Tile in Tilemap on Mouseover
My project today was a simple 2D top-down view tilemap that highlights tiles on mouseover and places them on click. In this article you will learn how to accomplish just that.
- Unity
- C#
- Game Development
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Writing good CSS: 11 Best Practices
Lessons learned from over 10 years of writing CSS. The 11 most important CSS principles I would like to have taught myself as a beginner.
- css
- best-practice
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404 Error Page and Redirect with Nuxt
How to create a custom 404 Error Page with Nuxt and perform 404 redirects from other pages programmatically
- js
- vuejs
- nuxt
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How to use Async/Await with Vue.js Components
Code examples for the usage of async/await with Vue.js single file components
- js
- vuejs
- async
- await
- nuxt
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Thoughts on a11y (Accessibility)
Your app is not as accessible as it should be because a11y doesn't pay.
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Fixing the ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS error with Wordpress
Every Wordpress developer sooner or later faces the ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS problem. Here is how to fix it.
- PHP
- Wordpress
- Reverse-Proxy
- Error
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My Print and Visual Design Showcase
I did some design work through the years, both for print and web, that I still treasure
- Photoshop
- InDesign
- Cinema4D
- figma
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Vue.js Pattern for Async Requests: Using Renderless Components
Using a Vue Renderless Component to handle async requests to abstract the HTTP request logic and make it reusable.
- js
- vuejs
- async
- axios
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