Ask HN: Workarounds for selling apps from unsupported countries?

3 points by zura ↗ HN
Any workarounds for selling apps on Apple Appstore and Google Play store from unsupported countries? i.e. countries in which you can't create a merchant account.

Thanks!

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It is frustrating that most people here don't care about this...
The easiest thing would probably be to use a relative's or a friend's bank account that is living/studying in a supported country. You would have to create and transfer your apps to a new Google Play developer account with the same country as the bank account.

You could also try to open an offshore bank account in one of the supported countries but most banks have balance limitations (the lowest I found was 5000GBP) and/or monthly fees.