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We currently use Stripe and even though we charge sales tax in our own country, we are approaching "economic nexus" in some US states and thus are looking at options like TaxJar and Avalara to sit on top of Stripe, or…

This morning I had reached the milestone of soft-launching my side-project turned startup, but the first user contacted me to say sign-up was broken. I traced the problem down to AWS Cognito (in us-east-2) returning an…

I have SMS 2FA enabled on my Google account. A few minutes ago, I received a couple of consecutive e-mails from Google (seems legit, not spoofed), with a verification code. Obviously this is alarming and I will be…

I'm considering making this transition and wondering what you experience was like. Pros and cons.

For a web or mobile app where users upload their own media, not for public consumption (think Shutterfly, for example) are there best practices to implement to ensure that the people working on that site (i.e. devs,…

My primary e-mail address is first.last@gmail, where my name is one that seems to be very common in south-east Asia, especially India. I regularly receive e-mails from Google that someone has signed up a gmail account…

I see Who's hiring, but not its typical counterpart.

Seems to be the case for many in Canada, at least. Anyone else? edit: a few minutes later, it's back. I don't recall this happening very often.

Say a startup (early stage, no technical team yet) wants you to do consulting work or become their first technical employee and offers you a compensation package that includes cash + equity. The equity is based on a…

Although I have extensive experience working on medical devices, most of the those have had little to no network connectivity functionality. Certainly none that venture outside of the internal hospital network. I am…

TLDR; My side-project has attracted a couple of devs looking to contribute (pro-bono). It will most likely remain a side-project, but has a small chance of gaining traction and becoming a "thing" (product? valuable…